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The Game Table: Time to Teach You About Tichu
By Ward Batty
This week we are going to focus on a popular four-player partnership card game called Tichu, which is pronounced like “teach-you,” see how funny my headline is now? When I had a store we had an employee who said that Tichu was adapted from an old Chinese game played with a regular deck of cards called Zheng Fen. Of course, he said the same thing about Monopoly, so who knows? What I can confirm is that Tichu was designed by Urs Hostettler and first published in Germany in 1991. Tichu is currently available in North America from Rio Grande Games.
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© 2006 Ward Batty
Posted by Ward Batty on Apr 26, 2006 at 02:30 AM in Special Features, The Game Table / 871
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