The best climbing games front load the decision making where you are dealt your starting hand of cards (the entire deck is dealt out) and then must decide how to split it up. This is the first thing that makes Tichu shine. Tichu (and many others) has the twist that you can lead a round with more than just singles, you could also start with : Basically, I play a 2, the next player plays a 7, the third player passes, the fourth player plays a Jack, it comes back to me and play a king, followed by the second and fourth player passing which means I win the cards played for that round. But, for those times where you have exactly four players (four players? In THIS pandemic?) there honestly aren’t many games I’d rather play.Ĭlimbing card games are fairly common, and they all revolve around players taking turns playing successively larger cards until everyone has passed, at which point the player who played the highest card wins the trick and leads play for the next round.
Today’s game, a partnership climbing card game is as simple as it gets components-wise: just a standard deck of cards (2-10, J, Q, K, Ace in four suits) with four special cards added to it. Though my board game tastes definitely skew a certain direction, you don’t always have to hide a great game system behind a mountain of plastic to get my attention.
