RogerBW's Blog

More gaming with nearby friends.

Just one game this time, the four-player variant of Haggis (so technically "Haggis with Neeps").

I enjoyed this rather more than the two-player "straight" Haggis; the game is very similar, but felt as though it made a bit more sense. (Still not clear on bombs, though; as we played it, if you bomb then nobody gets the cards from that trick, which is an obvious tactical choice; but looking at the updated rules you still give the captured cards to your opponent. So why would you do that other than very rarely? Aren't the court cards more useful as single wild cards?)

I wrote a mini rulebook for this but I'm working on revising it heavily now that I've actually played this variant. And now that there's an updated official rulebook which makes a bit more sense…