The following is my first podcast in what I hope will become a series dedicated to playing Magic The Gathering. In this first episode I focus on basic play as well as some beginner’s strategies. I hope you will find it informative. Obviously it goes without saying that intermediate or advanced players will reap little benefit due to the basic nature of the content, but I hope to remedy that in future episodes....
Friday, 20 December 2013
Saturday, 30 November 2013
Bella Donna and Bella Donna Halliela are games which I grew up playing in Malta. Bella Donna was a very popular Sunday afternoon card game and one which I continued to play through the years. In the video blog below I am offering a tutorial with a live demonstration of how the game is played including scoring. As you will see in the video, this game is usually played towards a target score. There is no set rule for what this target score might be, however I would suggest playing to either 100, 150 or 200 points depending your time constraints....
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Sunday, 17 November 2013
Technorati Tags: Card games,Open Face Chinese,Poker Open Face Chinese Poker is growing in popularity around the world, it is derived from Chinese Poker but all cards are dealt face up and not all at once. Both Open Face Chinese and Chinese Poker employ standard Poker hand rankings. One feature of both Open Face Chinese and Chinese Poker is that 13 cards are dealt out to each player. Additionally, you also have to form three hands of increasing rank...
Sunday, 29 September 2013
Technorati Tags: Mahjong,Strategy,WSOM,MCR,Riichi,British,Books As I had indicated a while back, Mahjong is as varied as the cultures which play it consistently. For a while I have played the British Variation, with some minor modifications. As a neophyte, I tried to review the various rule-sets I could get my hands on and in the process come up with a variation that was at one time both simple to learn as well as strategically fulfilling. My first forays into creating the ultimate, simple variation gave rise to a simplified form which borrowed...
Sunday, 14 July 2013
For those familiar with Poker terminology the title will immediately ring a bell. Heads-up play is one-on-one play, a focused dual of wits unlike no other. Uno tends to lend itself brilliantly to multiplayer gaming and the game is a tonne of fun when played in largish (6-8 person) groups. Yet this same game changes dramatically when two players duke it out one-on-one. To begin with, even a minor deterioration in the quality of the...
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