Lunch Time Tichuers: December 2006 Archives

I was lucky today because we had enough players for Tichu today. This game will certainly be the last lunch game of the year.

On the first hand, I called Tichu and made it. After I made it, I learned just how lucky I was. Adam could have played over my straight. And Ed had a bomb! My Jedi mind powers were strong this hand...

I had an interesting hand later on. I was passed two bombs. I had 2222 5555 Mahjong Ace Qxxx (three lowish singles). I was seriously considering calling Tichu. I probably spent five minutes agonizing over it. But in the end, I did not. I know my Ace is not a winner and I could probably not play one of my singles before having to play the ace and/or bombs to get the lead. I would have needed help from my partner to keep playing singles to me.

You can see where the point swing happens in this game. Fortunately, our team stayed ahead the whole game...

Sadly, I think that this will be the only lunch time Tichu for December (and therefore the rest of the year). I was a little worried when I drew Ed as my partner. After all, he has been notorious for "the luck of the Ed". But I shouldn't have worried. The cards were with us today. Although the points were not. It seemed that who ever called Tichu made it, but the other team scored more points. It got so reinforced, in fact, that on Ed's last Tichu call, he decided to get tricky. He has AAKK and the Phoenix and decides to play them as sequential pairs. Which Adam immediately bombs. Luckily, he leads a low pair which I was able to win with Kings. I lead a low card and Ed plays the Phoenix on top of Jon's Jack.