A Rummikub that's BETTER than other Rummijub sets. That's what the deluxe means after all, right? It comes in a nice wooden box, that DOUBLES as the tile boards.
So tic-tac-toe ends only in stalemate now. Even checkers and the box game have run their course. What's next? Othello! Capture all the tokens and defend what you've won.
Climb the ladder, fall down the chute, climb the ladder, fall down the chute. Feels a bit Sisyphean, doesn't it? But eventually, someone wins! And then you start again.
On French roads there were small marker stones giving the distance in kilometers to the next town. In this famous old French card game, players compete to drive 1000 km, dealing with hazards along the way.