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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Card Game: Min Hwa-tu

by connal on January 13, 2010

Flower Cards

We weren’t in Seoul for long before Anjel’s family started teaching us how to play the traditional Korean card game of Min Hwa-Tu.

I’d seen the deck of small cards before, Anjel and I even had one around the house, but we had never played – until now. I am  hooked on it and Anjel’s Aunt (or “Emo”) has done a great job of slowly ratcheting up the difficulty of the game as we start to understand more and more. The biggest hurdle is just learning to keep all the sets straight… but I’m getting ahead of myself.

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Fortune Cookie Game: For Once

by connal on January 13, 2010

This has nothing to do with travel, and we’re not in China, so I can’t pretend it was inspired by that. It was something that I was reminded of this evening, and it’s a meme that I try to pass along whenever I can. So I’m going to take this opportunity to do so.

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