Game Day 07/19/2007

Tichu

While we waited for Doug to show up, we played some Tichu. My 1223345555Ph777 somehow stopped Jon’s Tichu call. And, afterwards, John plays a 6 bomb. So there was no way Jon could have made that Tichu call…


07/19/2007 The scorecard for a game of Tichu

GT or T bet made or lost

This team scored more points than the other or one twoed

GT/T Team #1 GT/T GT/T Team #2 GT/T
MarkH & JohnG MikeCh & Jon
 
55
    45  
 
115
  T- -15  
  415 T+   -15  
Game #2

Taj Mahal

I always like playing this Knizia game. Although with five people it can be tough to know what battle others will get into. You do not want to fight somewhere where everyone else is. I did make that mistake early in the game. In an elephant battle with two others. If I would have stayed out of it, I could have got second place. Still fun playing it though.

Tichu

Game #3

And another game of Tichu to finish up the night. This one being a full game. On our second one/two both Dough and Mike had long run bombs. And yet they were unable to stop us from going out one/two. Doug’s was a length seven straight and in the lengthy questioning from Doug, the following statement came out:

Doug has the longest one I have ever seen!

Which led to much ribbing. On Mike’s second Tichu call, I had the above hand. Which contained the rarely played straight with a bomb inside of it. I think that it is the second-most annoying type of bomb (the intersection of two bombs (a straight and quads) being the first and the Ace bomb being the third) there is.

For our final one/two, I had AKKQJ and a Mahjong through nine with a Phoenix in there somewhere. Yet I didn’t call Tichu with it. Too wussy I guess.

We lost by 5 points! Argh! Close game though…


07/19/2007 The scorecard for a game of Tichu

GT or T bet made or lost

This team scored more points than the other or one twoed

GT/T Team #1 GT/T GT/T Team #2 GT/T
MarkH & Jon MikeCh & DougG
  0    
200
T+
  200     200  
  400     200  
 
460
  T+ 340  
  495   T-
305
 
  495     505  
  495     705  
T+ 610    
790
 
  810     790  
 
990
T+   810  
  995    
1005
T+