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conulyIt's a trick-taking game for two players, using a specialized three suit, 33 card deck. Very nice artwork on the cards.
She'd never played any trick-taking games before, and therefore I won handily. I didn't quite trounce her, but it wasn't too hard to win. And when she asked how I could've won so easily I explained that as an adolescent I played a LOT of Hearts on the computer, and so I was already familiar with some of the basic strategies.
The next day she played with her mother, who had NOT played Hearts on the computer at all. She played Minesweeper, a game I've never been good at. And Jenn won handily! As she explained, although she wasn't familiar with Hearts, she had played an awful lot of Couillon when visiting Belgium. If Eva tries again she ought to play with Ana, but it wouldn't surprise me to hear that Ana secretly is a Bridge champion or something at the rate this is going!
Now, I never could get into Couillon for various reasons, and it was hard for me to track down the rules on the internet. I know why, too. When I was introduced to the game at the age of six or so, I was told it's called Couillon because you cut, couper, the deck. (They didn't have to give me any explanation, really, but they did.) Turns out...um... that is... not the etymology at all. So here I was trying to work out the spelling using coup as the base, and no.
She'd never played any trick-taking games before, and therefore I won handily. I didn't quite trounce her, but it wasn't too hard to win. And when she asked how I could've won so easily I explained that as an adolescent I played a LOT of Hearts on the computer, and so I was already familiar with some of the basic strategies.
The next day she played with her mother, who had NOT played Hearts on the computer at all. She played Minesweeper, a game I've never been good at. And Jenn won handily! As she explained, although she wasn't familiar with Hearts, she had played an awful lot of Couillon when visiting Belgium. If Eva tries again she ought to play with Ana, but it wouldn't surprise me to hear that Ana secretly is a Bridge champion or something at the rate this is going!
Now, I never could get into Couillon for various reasons, and it was hard for me to track down the rules on the internet. I know why, too. When I was introduced to the game at the age of six or so, I was told it's called Couillon because you cut, couper, the deck. (They didn't have to give me any explanation, really, but they did.) Turns out...um... that is... not the etymology at all. So here I was trying to work out the spelling using coup as the base, and no.
