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GeekList: Games in the Decktet Book

Board Game: Chicane [Average Rating:5.86 Unranked]

P.D. Magnus

(pmagnus)

United States
Albany
New York

timbledum wrote:

Really fun! Play it with the reference card though. Heaps of double suited confusingness, with a familiar trick-taking bidding feel.

In this trick-taking game, a declaration process collapses all the two-suited cards into playing as one-suited cards. Players can control which direction the collapse goes, allowing them to control the distribution of cards in each suit.

There was an earlier version which was just OK, the new rules shake up the declaration process and add trump. The four-player variant has floating partnerships, with players teaming up for a hand based on the declarations. That version is (presently) my favourite four-player trick-taking game for the Decktet.

Reference cards are basically required to play, but they give players enough information to deploy all the familiar strategies of trick-taking games.

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Posted Fri Nov 4, 2011 7:12 pm

GeekList: Great trick-taking card games

Board Game: Chicane [Average Rating:5.86 Unranked]

P.D. Magnus

(pmagnus)

United States
Albany
New York

This is a trick taking game for the Decktet. There are six suits in the Decktet, and most cards have two suits on them.

In Chicane, players bid to decide whether the top or bottom suit on cards will be the active one. This allows you to control how long each suit is. For example: In a top-suit hand, there are ten Moon suit cards; in a bottom-suit hand, there are only two Moons.