![]() My complaint with these cards is that the dragon and phoenix are too close in design. The four Tichu special cards, from left to right: Dragon, Phoenix, Hound, Mah Jong The four special cards in Tichu are the Mah Jong, Hound, Dragon and Phoenix: Needless to say, playing counter-clockwise is just pointlessly contrarian, so we abandon it in our group, and also just deal the cards out - I imagine many other groups do the same.) Special Cards (As an example of where Tichu ill-advisedly tries to break convention, the manual suggests that you get players to take one card at a time in turn from the deck, instead of dealing, and that you should play in a counter-clockwise order. They could have invented their own Chinese version, but here convention is more useful than innovative design. So they adopted the two.ten/jack/queen/king/ace system, which both introduces more visual flavour into the deck, but is also a convention that’s likely to be known to all players. But this would have left the deck feeling pretty plain and dull. They could have simply numbered the cards 1–13. ![]() ![]() Here, the relation to playing cards is completely obvious. The highest ranks in Tichu: 10, Jack, Queen, King, Ace ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |