There are also four special cards - Mah Jong, Dog, Phoenix, and Dragon. They're numbered A-K, just like standard cards. These suits are called Star, Sword, Pagoda, and Jade. The suits are slightly different than standard suits: There are 56 cards - 13 cards in each of four suits, and four special cards. It's a partnership game where you are trying to get rid of all of your cards, and get to 1000 points.Īs I said, you could just play this game with a standard deck of cards. You can play the game with 3-6 players, but I'm only going to talk about the four player version, called Tichu Nanjing. The game was designed in 1991 by Urs Hostettler. There is a special deck for it, but you really could just use a standard deck of cards to play Tichu. It does have its origin in several different Chinese games, but this iteration was designed by a Swiss guy.
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