Here's a game with the sort of simplicity that may lead to its becoming a craze at some point. The rules are easy and the apparatus simple: nine playing cards will do fine. In “Triptych” you will need nine distinctive pieces: cards ace to nine in one card suit will be fine. The object of this two-handed game is to pick up a single card in each turn until you have three cards that total to fifteen. (You may of course end up with four or even five cards, but you get to identify (...)
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