Sunday, January 19, 2014

Day 7: Cuarenta

Friday, we continued playing the card game that Curt taught us, Cuarenta.  My partner and I quickly lost the first game, eliminating us from the tournament.  In the end, I think that Cuarenta is not the card game for me.  While I feel like I understand a bit of strategy to the game, I think there is too much luck involved to be truly an excellent game.  I greatly prefer euchre.

The second half of class was interesting, featuring Curt's friend giving a presentation on gaming.  I learned a few new terms about games (i.e. perfect information games)  that I am glad to know.  While his presentation was interesting, I feel that it went a little too long near the end.  I was losing interest in him explaining parts of games that I had never heard of, thus had no frame of reference to think about the game.  I wish the presentation had ended a bit earlier.

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