JAB: Real-Time Boxing - Tips & Strategies

As you and your group get better and better at Jab, you will come across some people that can play very quickly while going for a knockout via Haymakers and Counterpunches. Being known as somebody that can go quickly and get a knockout outs you at an advantage, but not necessarily because it works.

Often, you can go into that “spammer” mode to put your opponent off guard. I have had plenty of games with Seth Jaffee (head of development at Tasty Minstrel Games) where I go briefly into a spamming mode to lock him up and gain that slight tempo advantage. After he is scrambling to figure out what to do,I slow down a bit, land a combo or two, finish up my punches, and say “ding”.

Give it a try. It is a lot of fun!

In Jab, when it comes to the round scoring, you will choose one pile of punches out of 3 for your opponent not to score, and they will choose one of the other 2. Given that blocks remove one of the highest scoring punches from the pile, you can do the following…

1. Play a large number of blocking cards into one pile.
2. Play a block or 2 into a second pile.
3. Ignore the 3rd pile and only block the dangerous Haymakers.
4. Remove the 3rd pile that you ignored.

The result is that your opponent will only have 2 piles to choose to score points from, neither of which should be providing much points at all. This will help a careful boxer score significantly more round wins.