Tichu was invented by Urs Hostettler and originally released in 1991. Tichu is the trade name for what appears to be a variant of Dou di zhu, Choi Dai Di (Cantonese) or Da Lao Er (Mandarin), meaning 'big two', combined with Zheng Fen ('Competing for Points').
Teams work to accumulate points, and the first team to reach a predetermined score (usually 1,000 points) is the winner. Tichu is a proprietary card game primarily classified as a shedding game that includes elements of Bridge, Daihinmin, and Poker played between two teams of two players each.
