Lunch Time Tichuers: January 2006 Archives

In this game, I had four bombs and yet, my partner is the only one who called tichu! Sigh! Crap + bomb does not a tichu hand make. The other flawed part of this equation is a last hand substitution of MikeA for Jon. Who called Grand Tichu and made it. Unfortunately, Ed completed the one-two for the win...

P.S. I found another scoring discrepancy which gave my team 100 points...

Since Ed and I were not partners, I had hoped to change my luck. And at the beginning, we were dominating in points each hand. But somehow, in the last three hands, they came back and pipped us for the win!

Well, I made two mistakes today. The first was not correctly valuing my hand against Adam's first Tichu call. I strongly suspected I could stopped him. And I should have called Tichu as well.

When Mike called Grand Tichu and Ed passed me the Mah Jong, I made the standard wish for an ace. However, Adam immediately bombed and led a single. Which forced me to play an ace. Ace wish rejected in your face!

My second mistake was amusing. It was the last hand and Ed picked up all of his cards. So I blindly called Grand Tichu. I picked up the Dragon, Phoenix, Mah Jong, an Ace, and other cards. So it was a pretty good hand. I passed Mike a 2. I didn't wish for the 2, but instead wished for an ace hoping to improve my hand slightly. Towards the end, when I played a pair of aces, Mike bombed with 2s and then went out. I would have made it except for that bomb!