Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Tichu Strategy Guide

Tichu is a 4-player partnership climbing game sold by both FataMorgana and AbacusSpiel. It is in the same family of games as The Great Dalmutti (Wizards of the Coast) and Asshole.

The Rules

General Strategy

I really hope to play this game soon at some point.

Scrabble

Beginner Hint: Learn the Two's

In the OSPD4, there are 101 two-letter words:

The diatonic musical scale: DO, RE, MI, FA, SO, LA, TI
The Greek Alphabet: XI, MU, NU, RHO, CHI, ...
The English Alphabet: EF, EM, EN, AR, ES, EX, and some threes CEE, DEE, GEE, VEE, ZEE.

Making threes with "KA": "Betsy's Foot"
KAB, KAE, KAF, KAS, KAS, KAT, KAY, OKA, SKA.

Complete List Here