Lunch Time Tichuers: February 2006 Archives

Its interesting how one sided Tichu can get sometimes... For a whole game, one team will score all of the points. And it certinally seemed that way this time. However, the last 3 hands were enough for the other team to come back from behind and win. BTW, this score card is missing a desparate Grand Tichu call made by myself at the last hand.

Sigh. Still haven't won a lunch time Tichu game this year. Perhaps a small part of that is because we don't play to 1000 points? Still, it was amusing to have a bomb and set Ed's tichu call..

This game had an interesting hand. Adam calls Grand Tichu. Ed has the Mahjong and a long straight (12 card). So he decides to call Tichu. Unfortunately, Mike bombs Ed. At the end of the hand, Ed, Adam and myself all have one card. Fortunately, Mike leads a single card which both Ed and Adam were forced to pass on and I was able to play on. This allowed a net -100 point loss for the opposing team.

There were able to come back from behind with 3 one/twos which was enough to give them the game.

Our heroic team was down 350 points. The game was almost over. This was the time to call Grand Tichu. And, unfortunately, it was not me. Although I did force Mike to do it. And apparaently, it was a risky call. Adam was strong and would have gone out. But Mike did have the right cards needed to go out!

On the next hand, we are now down 90 points. In all probability, this is the last hand. No Grand Tichu call was made. So I called Tichu before the pass. And if I were to make it, it would then be a battle over points. Another problem is that during the play, a lot of points were given to Adam. So now I need to go out first and force Adam to go out last. Sadly, my goal was not accomplished. Although it was an amusing hand!

This game had a lot of one/twos in it. On the 5th hand, I made a risky GrandTichu calll with only the Ace and the Phoenix in my first eight cards. Ed passed me the Dragon. Adam starts out with the standard Ace wish. Both Adam and Mike destroyed their hands trying to stop me. I later find out that Ed had all of the good cards and he was able to stop Mike and Adam when they went over my plays...