I mean, you don't even need to buy the Tichu cards to play Tichu just add in 4 extra cards to a poker deck (e.g. I do think most board gamers like having specialized or thematic components. We had a lot of success in college recruiting people to play casually this way. Bidding basics can be learned in about 10 minutes, or you can just 'bid naturally' for the first few games as you learn (especially fine if you've played trick taking games before). The scoring can be referenced after each game. If you just want to play with friends, you can learn the rules for bridge in about 5 minutes. Just like with Dominion, there is a high skill component and it's not fun to always lose. The key is to play games with/against people who are at about your skill level. I could never enjoy it unless I master the ability to analyze kingdoms first.' That's like saying, 'Once I analyze the kingdom, the rest of Dominion is so dull. The rest of the game is dull, so there is nothing to enjoy unless you master the system.

Playing Bridge makes no sense if you haven't spent a lot of effort learning it, since it is so much a game about the bidding system. Offer those for the guys who enjoy Tichu and the response might be better, but expect to run into the problem theory referred to: they are considerably harder to learn, partly because some of the pearls of this genre are very old and partly because it simply is quite hard to come up with very elegant and streamlined scoring systems for trick-taking games (without getting perhaps slightly too simple like Spades or Sticheln these are good games but somewhat lack competitive element and become slightly repetitive after tens or hundreds of games). As Tichu is considered the pinnacle of climbing games then the relevant comparisons amongst trick-taking games would perhaps be more in the line of Tarot, Skat, Doppelkopf, Mü etc. Even though Spades is a good game, there are quite a few more interesting ones out there. The same guys that play Tichu probably would be happy to play a lot of trick-taking games (unless they view the partnership part as a key), but you should try selling them something else than one of the simplest ones. Spades simply has nothing in common with Tichu (besides the fact that both are card games) so I don't see the relevance of the comparison at all. There are *very* few good partnership games so Tichu can kind of dominate that market. makes the playing experience more social otherwise the competitors are indeed almost as good. In comparison to those the answer would be easy the key difference is the partnership which e.g. After your first post I thought you referred to games like Gang of Four or Haggis that are mechanically similar to Tichu.

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