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Tiến lên (Vietnamese: tiến lên, tiến: advance; lên: to go up, up; literally: "go forward"; also Romanized Tien Len) is a shedding-type card game originating in Vietnam. [1] It may be considered Vietnam's national card game, and is common in communities where Vietnamese migration has occoured.
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Zheng Shangyou (Chinese: 争上游; pinyin: Zhēng Shàngyóu; lit. 'struggling upstream') is a Chinese shedding card game similar to President and Big Two. It is the game from which Tien Len and other similar games are derived. [citation needed] It is popular in Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu.
A player's hand of cards in a shedding-type game In shedding-type games , the player's objective is to empty one's hand of all cards or tiles before all other players. Games with action/power/trick cards
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[2] [3] [4] It is a Westernized version of Chinese climbing card games [5] such as Zheng Shangyou, Tien Len in Vietnam and the Japanese Daifugō. [1] President can also be played as a drinking game, [2] [3] [4] [6] and commercial versions of the game with a non-standard deck exist, including The Great Dalmuti and Presidents Card Game. [7]
The game is very similar to the Hong Kong climbing card games Big Two, and the Chinese game Zheng Shangyou, to the Vietnamese game Tien Len, and to Western card games like President and The Great Dalmuti. Like those other games, there are many variations and rules.