Trick-Taking Games Redux from So Very Wrong About Games

Trick-Taking Games Redux

1 hour 8 minutes Posted Aug 26, 2025 at 10:00 am.

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I've always chafed at the conventional wisdom that young goats are good at trick-taking games. Or, at least, ones where you are not incentivized to go null. Do they hold their cards in their cloven hooves? Do their dead eyes come to life when contemplating the vagaries of trump suits?

It must be true, though, because I have it on good authority from a cartoon rabbit that tricks are for kids.

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