Episode 35: Trick-Taking Extremes, with Taylor Reiner

Taylor Reiner from  the Taylor’s Trick-Taking Table YouTube channel joins Candice to discuss complexity in trick-taking games, as well as a variety of card games they played recently at a gaming event focused on trick-taking games. 

• 00:00:00 Introduction
  • 00:02:10 Taylor's Experience at Tokyo Game Market 
    • 00:03:52 Short Zoot Suit 
• 00:10:20 Fresh Plays
  • 00:10:41 Maze Makers
  • 00:15:05 Mindbug: First Contact
  • 00:20:29 Lines of Action
  • 00:23:42 Last Message
• 00:34:26 Complexity in Trick-Taking Games
  • 00:45:03 Lighter trick-taking games (Whist, Boast or Nothing, Hearts, The Crew)
• 00:49:27 Trick-Taking Games on Our Minds  
  • 00:51:08 The Kakapo: Buddy & Party
  • 00:56:22 Makai Fuda
  • 01:04:25 LOOP
  • 01:11:20 Trick Raiders
  • 01:20:07 Baronda
  • 01:25:12 Sumida River
  • 01:34:22 Iyadosu
  • 01:36:15 Extreme Tricks
  • 01:47:37 Tichu
  • 01:51:28 La bâtarde
• 02:09:23 Sign-off

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