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Reminiscent of the even simpler game Psychological Jujitsu. Take a pack of cards. Divide into suits. Discard the diamonds. Give one player all the spades and o
by gjm11 17y ago
Reminiscent of the even simpler game Psychological Jujitsu.
Take a pack of cards. Divide into suits. Discard the diamonds. Give one player all the spades and one all the clubs. Shuffle the hearts and put them face down.
Now repeat 13 times: turn up a card from the pile of hearts; each player chooses one of their cards; they reveal them simultaneously; the player with the higher card gets to keep that heart. (If the players play equal cards, no one gets it.)
When you're done, add up the values of the hearts each player has won (according to any convention you choose; different conventions give slightly different games; I prefer A..K = 1..13 points). Highest total wins.
See http://www.icynic.com/~don/psych.html http://www.icynic.com/~don/psych.html for more information. (That page has diamonds and hearts the other way around from me, which of course makes no difference.)
(I claimed that PJ is simpler than BC's game, but my description is longer than his. No contradiction: he imported the standard ordering of poker hands by reference, whereas I described all the rules of my game explicitly.)
- eru 17y agoYou can also play tic-tac-toe with a twist: At the start of the game each player gets 100 silver pieces (100 AgP). At each turn the right to decide where the symbol (X or O) is placed goes to the highest bidder. Three in a row of your symbol wins --- but it can of course be of advantage to bid on your enemies turns to place his marks somewhere harmless out of the way. (I suggest a sealed-bid-first-price auction, where the bids aren't revealed --- just who was higher. This auctoion type needs a game master of course.) This auction mechanism can of course also be applied to other games like chess, or Diplomacy (http://www.diplom.org/Zine/W1995A/Payola/ http://www.diplom.org/Zine/W1995A/Payola/).
- tome 17y agoAlso known as Gops or Goofspiel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goofspiel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goofspiel
- pw0ncakes 17y agoIf you enjoy that game, you might be interested in Reiner Knizia's High Society. http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/220/high-society http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/220/high-society
- eru 17y agoOr Kuhhandel.