Posts categorized “Games”.

The rules of Piquet

Yesterday, boredom resulted in a friend and I finding a two-player card game that’s actually interesting. It’s called Piquet. However, even the best set of rules we found took us a while to understand, and there are competing older rulesets that actually describe different versions of the game that antedate the current one, so learning the game took us two or three hours and several botched games. So, after figuring out that the rules are in fact relatively simple, I’m writing and posting an easy-to-understand set of rules in case anyone else is looking for one. More… »

A small snippet of Deus Ex

I’ve just been reminded that I never posted here after I opened it, and since I’ve been thinking a lot about how I don’t play games anymore, and no one I ever tried to get to play Deus Ex ever got far enough to see this, what I consider the greatest dialogue in any game ever written, I thought I’d post about it. More… »