![]() ![]() As a warning, it has a tendency to really bring out the trash-talk (somewhat weirdly there appears to be an consensus on this). Tichu is quite bewildering at first, but enormously fun - and perhaps harmfully addictive to left-brained types. It's also inspired a couple of other games (well, at least one) with similarly egregious nationalistic theming - for instance, the conspicuously Scottish game, Haggis 1. However, Tichu's core mechanics are based on an amalgamation of older Mainland-Chinese traditional card games in the "king-ten-five" family, such as Zheng Fen (挣分) and Mao-era Dou Dizhu (斗地主). Tichu is a brutally addictive four-player, partnership-based, traditional-ish card game.Ĭontrary to the game's quasi-Asiatic namesake (and the spurious origin stories in its very eccentric rulebook), Tichu is actually a Swiss game, conceived in 1991 by a German tabletop board game designer Urs Hostettler. ![]()
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