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Tag: Texas Showdown

  • Texas Showdown with Seas of Strife rules

    Texas Showdown is a very good trick-taking game for five or six players. The point is to avoid taking tricks. The main twist in the game is the suit-following rules: you have to follow suit, but if you can’t, you play anything, and other players can then follow your suit. The trick is won by…

  • Gaming Year 2019

    2019 was a solid year of games. Updating my game stats app. A major project this year was updating my game stats app. I’ve been keeping my stats in a DIY web app, built with PHP and MySQL some fifteen years ago. I’ve been updating it and adding new features, but I’ve had some problems…

  • Texas Showdown

    The game: Texas Showdown by Mark Major. This was originally self-published as Strife in 2015, then published by Amigo in 2018. I bought this myself. Elevator pitch: A Western-themed trick avoidance game for 4–6 players with couple of very clever twists. What’s in the box? A standard Amigo card game box contains a 60-card deck…