US-Sino tensions help spawn China card game craze
US-Sino tensions help spawn China card game craze
China's bankers and business executives have become increasingly reliant on domestic capital in recent years as foreign funding has dried up, but a popular way to unlock that cash may very well involve "throwing eggs".
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/7415121
The game in question is Guandan, where you and your teammate try to make poker hands to discard your cards before the opposing pair does, which lets you level up. Teams can only win the entire match by reaching level A while avoiding having the player who discards all cards last.
The game looks interesting, has anyone played?
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Sounds a lot like Tichu, a team-based 4 player trick taking game where you play quadi-Poker hands and try not to be the last out with cards in hand. Our group has a lot of fun with that, although Tichu seems simplified in a few areas. You have 14 cards each instead of 27, there is only a single wild card, you count points instead of levels, and bombs are more rare.
This might be an interesting upgrade.
Tichu is the bomb, literally.