Blog 8: My Favorite Card Game

When it comes to card games, I will think of the Chinese famous card game---War of Three Kingdoms, which is also my favorite card game. In three years, the game has been very popular in China or even some other countries. Why is this game so popular? Now, I will introduce it to you. It is a perfect card game with a wonderful combination of history and game. The game has four kinds of cards, which are character cards, identity cards, life cards and fundamental playing cards. As for the character cards, their designs are based on the historical incidents and stories and the characters are the famous historical people in the last few years of the Han Dynasty and the time of three kingdoms. Moreover, every character has its own special skills according to the history and even between characters there are restrictive or beneficial relations. Thus, when playing the game, we have a lot of fun because of the complex relations between different characters and in the meantime, we can have a much deeper memory of the history and greater respect and pride for our culture. There are two kinds of characters, which are civil officers and military officers. Civil officers usually have three lives and two skills and military officers have four lives and one skill. As you can see, the game is well designed to keep a good balance between characters. The fundamental playing cards are including equipment cards, basic cards and scheme cards. The variety of playing cars of fundamental cards strongly promotes the strategy and the interest of the game because which character uses which kind of cards at what time all needs your careful thought. Apart from the cards, I will tell you some other fantastic features of the game. There are four styles of games, which are identification game, one-to-one game, three-to-three game and one- god-character-to-three game. Among these styles, the most popular one is identification game because in this kind of game, every character has its own task. What they should do is to guess others’ identification and try to win with whatever ways. So it strongly increases the game’s enjoyment and usage of strategies. To play the game, we have two ways. One is to play online and another is to play with friends face to face with cards. Both ways have unique advantages. The online game has good background music and characters’ dialogues. Face-to-face game gives us opportunity to communicate with others and have fun. From the game, I have learned a lot of wonderful strategies which can also be used in real life. There are two things that make me love this game more. One is that I received a set of complete edition of cards on my birthday. Another one is that I gained a wonderful victory with my friend online to celebrate my birthday. I love this game so much. Do you love this game now?