Fairly early on in the episode, Book, Jayne and Simon are all sitting around the table betting on which chores they don't want to do.
It's shortly before River has a crazy moment and starts to rip all the labels off the canned foods.
Does anyone know what card game Joss based the one they are playing off of. It looks like a combination of poker and euchre. "Plums are tall" and "dealer forced to claim the tall" sounds a lot like "hearts are trump" and a screw the dealer type rule. That mixed with some sort of poker rule where you get to turn some cards in and get a couple back.
Just curious if anyone had read anything about it.
Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
I was curious about that too. I wonder if that has any kind of chinese origin?
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
My guess is that it was made up from whole cloth.
Posted by Raventhief (Member # 9002) on :
Sounds more like Mao to me. We could play Mao over the web. That would be... something.
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
It's called "Tall Card" and was invented by the show's writer, Jane Espenson. Here's some info on it. Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
There's also another downloadable version here.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
it won't let me access that first page Chris. Says the connection is refused. anyone else having this problem?
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Interesting game. Makes me wish I could buy a deck of Tall cards. Actually what I really want is a workable version of Sabacc, but thankfully Tall Card doesn't require any sort of technology to play.
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
Worked for me at work, and again here at home.
It's a download repository site, though, and it's entirely possible your ISP or company might have it blocked to avoid bandwidth problems.