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🃏 Euchre: Going Under
Like a lot of card games, there are variants depending on where you grew up, who you played with, etc.
Tonight, I learned a somewhat boggling (but also interesting) one: “going under”.
“Going under” means that when it is your term to bid (which is a yes/no or suit declaration in Euchre, rather than a number), you can sacrifice your bid to take three 9s or 10s from your hand and exchange them with the kitty. The extra interesting part of this is that the people I learned it from say you never show the cards you exchange with the kitty. I’m sure many players have taken advantage of that fact.
I grew up with something a little different. If you had all 9s and 10s, you could show them and declare “Farmers Hand” which became a misdeal, and thus, the deal passed to the next player.
Have you used any rules like this? What was your variation?
📚 2024 Books Review
other 2024 reviews here
I am tracking all my completed books on my reading page and everything on Storygraph. (why Storygraph?) I would like to use micro.blog’s bookshelves, but it’s too buggy and incomplete at this stage.
This was a slow year, so I only completed 42 books. Here’s the summary from Storygraph.
Highly Recommended Books:
Non-Fiction:
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. Still a relevant diagnosis for many of our current ills. (book) (post)
- The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World… by David Graeber (posthumously). What if things don’t have to be the way they are? (book) (post)
- The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. We are reaping the results from sowing distorted thinking. (book) (post)
Fiction:
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (book) (post)
- The Curse of Chalion (World of Five Gods #1) by Lois McMaster Bujold (book) (post)
- The Future by Naomi Alderman (book) (post)
Recommended Books
(Reverse-chronological order)
- Polostan (Bomblight #1) by Neal Stephenson (book)
- Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy (book)
- Midnight Riot (Rivers of London #1) by Ben Aaronovitch (book) (post)
- Mort (Discworld #4) by Terry Pratchett (book)
- The Shape of Joy by Richard Beck (book) (post)
- Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi (book)
- Dopamine Nation by Anna Lemke (book) (post)
- Death of a Cad (Hamish Macbeth #2) by M. C. Beaton (book)
- The Nature of the Beast (Gamache #11) by Louise Penny (book)
- Slow Productivity by Cal Newport (book) (post)
- Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg (book) (post)
- The Rise and Reign of Mammals by Steve Brusatte (book)
- The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist (book) (post)
- Equal Rites (Discworld #3) by Terry Pratchett (book)
- Radical Respect by Kim Scott (book) (post)
- The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne (book) (post)
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (book)
- Assassin’s Quest (Farseer Trilogy #3) by Robin Hobb (book)
- The PARA Method by Tiago Forte (book) (post)
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🎲 Putting some of my #ttrpg books up for sale.
Most of these are being sold simply because I need more space (and maybe I have the digital version).
Some are because I can’t (or won’t) bring them to the game table.
Let me know if you have questions!
🎲📚 Following up from my last post:
My top shelf is coming along. It’s got the “really phenomenal physical artifact” books. Tag yourself! #TTRPG
Not shown:
- Trilemma Adventures 1 (it’s sideways)
- Vaults of Vaarn (currently being used for inspiration)
- solo or BWHQ books (have their own shelves)
🎲 What’s the best place to resell RPG books these days? #TTRPG
For perspective, these are everything from “still in the wrapper” to “classic and gently used”
🎥 it’s Nosferatu day!
I would have preferred Lasombra or Malkavian, but you take the win you can. 🧛🏻
🎲🃏♟️ Answering my own question about STLs for GameLib Pocket yes, they are here.
There are STLs for boxes and for board pieces (of various sizes).