Origin of Failing Water (2005)

Origin of FailingWater (Rakusuitei Monogatari in Japanese) is a clever card game based on the system of trick taking. There are 6 tricks which winner gains positive or negative points for each trick. However, you must play from last (6th) trick, followed by 5th, 4th until the first trick. Then resolve tricks from 1st to 6th trick according to normal non-trump trick taking rule.

To add more twist, everyone starts with one "thinking" card. You can play it instead of any of the trick, then replace it with the remaining card you have in your hand.

Scores are absolute value of your total. So you want to collect either positives or negatives but not both. A player who didn't take any trick also get scored if he/she is the only one without a trick.

This game has been called Origin of Falling water in error. Just as the word in the Japanese title Rakusuitei is slightly different from the usual Japanese Rakusuiso for Falling Water, the decision was made to have a similar pun in English and use FailingWater instead of Falling Water. Origin of FailingWater (no space) is the correct English title of this game.