I used to be quite a gamer (more offline than video) in school and university, and one of the most important games was the card game Tichu, which I introduced to basically everyone I met. I used to organize and play in tournaments as well. Now, one of things we have always been wondering about is the truth about its proclaimed Chinese origins (it is produced by a Swiss company). According to Cissy, there is in fact a very similar card game (called Going up-stream), but the graphical design of Tichu cards is very strange to her: The Chinese characters on the back side of the cards are mirror images and form no meaning. The characters on the box read packaged, non-packaged refridgerator. The words on the first page of the manual are more philosophical and translate as These words have meaning.