No Merci!

[senji]

I'm sitting in the living room at Relativity (using their wireless for spod) while sitting out in a game of No Merci. It's a slightly strange game where you have a deck with 24 distinct integers randomly distributed between 3 and 35 and 11 counters per person

Comments

[slakko]

Is it effectively a cross between multi-round Prisoner's Dilemma and Mornington Crescent?

[atreic]

If it's the game I think it is, senji has forgotten to mention that you only count the lowest of a run of cards you have picked up. So if you already have the 27, picking up the 26 is a positive bonus for you, whereas it will score huge negative points for everyone else.

It's a good game.

[senji]

You are indeed correct. I assume you've played it with angoel, who I gather has it in German...

[angoel]

Indeed. Mainly because the German name ('Geschenkt') is so much better than the English one. And since everything else was language neutral, bar the rules which you could inscribe on a small postage stamp, the name won it for me.

[cartesiandaemon]

Oh! I didn't realise you were spodding. I could have replied then ;)