Deal 1 at a time beginning with the player on the left of the dealer and continuing in clockwise fashion. If partners have already been chosen, then use the same card-drawing process to determine the first dealer.Īfter shuffling all cards, the dealer should offer a cut to the player on their right and then begin dealing 8 cards to each player. Sasquatch is 0, mahjong is 1, Phoenix is 1.5, and dragon is higher than the Ace.

If a celestial is drawn first their value is as follows. The player who drew the highest card will shuffle and deal first. The 2 high cards are the other set of partners and also sit across from one another. The 2 low cards are partners and should sit across for one another. If partners are not already chosen, then splay the cards and each player should draw one randomly. Tichu for 4 players has 2 sets of partners. Tomorrow I’m hoping to play some Go, to finally get a rating on the Kiseido Go Server.The object of the game is to shed all your cards before anyone else. It was an excellent game and a very good way to spend an hour, I’d say.

Well, I did squeeze in some good or lucky moves every once in a while and I managed to use my only bomb to secure a tichu call by my partner. He had several bombs, which had a good effect. I began our early lead by taking a Tichu call home, the rest of it was mostly thanks to good play from my partner. Then I got into a game of Tichu and I must say I’m pleased on how it turned out: my team won 1030-50 or something of that caliber. I just rather play Ra offline from now on. I didn’t do well at all, but I’ll blame part of that for the hopeless interface and another part on the quick appearance of Ra tiles in the last round. Important information (like the amount of Ra tiles drawn) is hidden on small tiny flecks out of sight and so on. Unfortunately the user interface is on the worse end of the BSW scale. I’ve been looking for a game of Ra there for a while now and today it happened, I played a 3-player game.

I just played some games in the Brettspielwelt.

Tichu bomb