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Personally, my favorite card game is contract bridge. Imperfect information, randomness with room for skill, strongly asymmetric play and scoring, etc., but it
by a_e_k 4y ago
Personally, my favorite card game is contract bridge.
Imperfect information, randomness with room for skill, strongly asymmetric play and scoring, etc., but it also requires cooperation via rather narrow communication channels that your opponents get to observe.
(For those not familiar, four play at a time and you are partners with the person across the table from you. After dealing, there's an auction phase and your bids are the only form of communication you are allowed to use to signal to your partner. The bids are known to everyone, and if your opponents ask you must tell them the bidding convention that you are using. After the auction, the winner of the auction plays for both themselves and their partner -- whose cards are put face up after the opening -- against the other two. Hence the asymmetric play, and the scoring also works differently for the two pairs.)
- ivan_gammel 4y agoI would suggest contract bridge or whist/preferans too. In my school years we played preferans a lot and bridge was the favorite game of our math teacher, so we could solve one or two bridge problems as a warming up on our math lessons.
- kqr 4y agoI have long wanted to learn contract bridge, but there are two obstacles: 1. I don't have anyone to play with -- much less three people -- and I don't have much time to play myself either, with two very small children and work taking up most of my time. 2. As a consequence of the above, I don't even know how to start learning to play. I'm a person who learns by doing, but I can't take the time to find and meet up with other interested people. If only I understood the game, I'm sure I could teach the in-laws and they might humour me and play with me every now and then, but that takes me understanding the game first... What would you recommend?