Top Trumps style card template

Blank cards to print and fill in with a pencil, and a deck you can edit for when you want thirty cards that look finished. Each card has a picture, a name and five stats with dot meters, in the layout comparison card games use, on an original design called Tumblewild.

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Card size
Poker, 63.5 × 88.9 mm (2.5 × 3.5 in), nine to an A4 sheet
Includes
A creature card in eight colours, a classroom card to fill in by hand, a back and 36 sample cards
Fields
Name, number, picture, kind, five stats from 1 to 100, rarity stars and a habitat
Files
A blank print sheet for A4 or Letter and blank card PNGs, free with no account

Card sizes, and how many fit on an A4 sheet

The template is poker size, the size of most card games and of the sleeves sold for them. A smaller card fits more to a page, which helps when a whole class is printing.

CardMillimetresInchesPixels at 300 DPIPer A4 sheet
Poker: this template63.5 × 88.92.5 × 3.5750 × 10509
Bridge57.2 × 88.92.25 × 3.5675 × 10509
Mini44.5 × 63.51.75 × 2.5525 × 75016
Tarot69.9 × 120.72.75 × 4.75825 × 14254

The counts leave room for crop marks in the margin. A design can be switched to another size in the editor, and "Fit the design to the new size" carries the frame across. The blank print sheet holds nine poker cards on A4 or US Letter.

Every card size, with the bleed figures

Blank Top Trumps style cards to print

Poker size. The print sheets are nine classroom cards a page at actual size with crop marks, fronts then backs, for A4 or US Letter. The single cards are 825 × 1125 at 300 DPI with an eighth of an inch of bleed, and the guide marks the cut line, the safe zone and the boxes on the card. No account needed.

The template

Tumblewild Stat Card Game Template preview
TumblewildStat Card Game

Tumblewild Stat Card Game Template

by ShuffleKit

A free stat card game template for a deck you play by comparing numbers: each card has a picture, a name, a kind and five stats from 1 to 100, Strength, Speed, Wits, Courage and Mischief, with a ten-dot meter beside each that fills in from the number. Rarity shows as one to three gold stars. The Creature card sits on a dark gradient with a sunburst behind the picture, and its colour comes from the card's habitat: Volcano, Dune, Meadow, Marsh, Glacier, Reef, Sky or Cavern. The Classroom card is light, with a picture box to draw in and five ruled rows, and a card with nothing filled in prints it blank for writing on by hand. Comes with 32 invented creatures, four from each habitat, balanced so every card can win a round, and four crayon creatures on the Classroom card.

3 designs36 sample cards11 fields

Fields you get: Name, Number, Artwork, Kind, Strength, Speed, Wits, Courage, Mischief, Rarity, Type

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From blank cards to a deck of your own

The print sheet is enough for a class to draw a card each. A deck that looks finished is quicker as a project: every card is a row in a sheet, every stat a column, and the dot meters fill in from the numbers.

  1. Add the template to a project

    Free. It copies the creature card, the classroom card, the back, the columns and a 36-card sample deck into a project of your own.

  2. Fill in the sheet

    One row per card, one column per stat, each from 1 to 100. Type 72 under Speed and seven of the ten dots light up. A whole deck can come in from Excel or Google Sheets as a CSV.

  3. Pick each card's habitat

    The Type column colours the card: eight habitats from Volcano to Cavern, four creatures each in the sample deck. A row with no Type prints the classroom card instead, which is how a blank card to write on is made.

  4. Print or play

    On a paid plan, download a print PDF with nine cards to an A4 sheet and the backs lined up, or order the deck from The Game Crafter with Print & Ship. Before printing, deal it out on the online table and play a few rounds.

Questions about the Top Trumps style card template

Everything you need to know before getting started.

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Is this an official Top Trumps template?

No. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Winning Moves. The cards are an original design that follows the layout comparison card games share, and nothing on them comes from Top Trumps cards: no logo, card back, categories or artwork. It is for your own deck and your own subjects.

Are the blank cards free to print?

Yes. The print sheet, for A4 or US Letter, and the single blank cards download with no account. Adding the template to a project is free too, and the free plan holds one project of up to 120 cards. Exporting your own deck as files and Print & Ship are on the paid plans.

How do you play a Top Trumps style game?

Deal out every card face down. The player to the dealer's left reads one stat from their top card, everyone reads the same stat from theirs, and the highest number wins all the top cards. The winner picks the next stat. A tie puts the cards in the middle for the next winner, and whoever ends up with the whole deck wins.

How do I make my own Top Trumps cards?

Pick a subject and five things to compare, then give every card a score for each. Here that is a sheet: a row per card and a column per stat, typed in or imported from a spreadsheet, and the template draws the cards. For cards made by hand, print the blank sheet and write the stats in the ruled rows. Turn a spreadsheet into cards.

Can I change the stats to my own categories?

Yes. Rename a column in the sheet, Speed to Top Speed say, and retype its label on the creature card once; every card follows. The meters light a dot for every 10 points, so they suit scores from 1 to 100. For figures on another scale, such as a height in metres, delete the dots or change the number each one waits for.

Can a class make a deck together?

Yes. Print the blank sheet on card, give everyone a card to draw a creature, an animal or a book character on, and agree five stats as a class so the cards can be played against each other. The rows are blank lines, so the categories are written in by hand. Nine cards cut from each A4 sheet.

How many cards should a deck have?

Thirty or so plays well with two to four players. The sample deck has 32 creatures, four from each of eight habitats, so it also plays as a Quartett, collecting sets of four. Make sure no card is best at everything: give each one a stat it wins with and one it loses with.

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Top Trumps is a trademark of Winning Moves. ShuffleKit is not affiliated with or endorsed by Winning Moves, and the Tumblewild cards on this page are an original design that contains none of Winning Moves' card art, categories or logos.

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