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Chouette Question
Posted By: Albert Steg In Response To: Chouette Question (Carlo Melzi)
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2018, at 4:22 a.m.
In Boston the box can double whoever he wants to whenever he wants, singly or en masse.
If the Captain and whole crew all double at once, the box must take at least half of them, and can decide whichever ones he wants to take. But to remain box, he must beat the captain.
If the box doubles everyone at once, everyone decides for themselves, but if only one person (typically the Captain) is the only taster, he must accept extras from anyone who offers them, or must also agree to pass. (This is to prevent a captain from taking a frivolous cube and making everyone else stand around for the rest of the game.)
Almost everyone I have met feels that the rules they are used to playing by are the very "best" ones. Partly it has to do with being comfortable with what you'r used to, but another big part of it is the relative strength of the different players in the chouette, and also the unwritten "manners" that people tend to go by.
I'm always content to play by whatever the 'local' rules are. The only chouette rule I can say really makes me wish I were in a different chouette is the "last man standing" approach, which someone else can explain. But even there, since I like the people I've met who play that way, I can live with it once a year!
Albert
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