Counterweight

Some of my previous posts (notably this one and this one) have mentioned card games that I invented. I’d now like to talk more about my two-player game Counterweight.

I got the idea for Counterweight while browsing fishing games such as Chinese Ten on pagat.com and pondering whether they could be crossed with Ups and Downs. The heritage of both games can be seen in Counterweight, but the former only dimly: Chinese Ten is not a parent of Counterweight so much as a … baby-sitter or something, I suppose. It helped to spark off the idea, but made little direct contribution. The rules of Counterweight are mostly not drawn from any prior source.