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Alsós
Alsós is a Hungarian card game of the Jass family with bidding elements borrowed from central European Tarot games. Also known as Vannak and as Kaláber, the game is a variation of Klaberjass Klaberjass () or Bela is a trick-taking ace–ten card game that is most popular in Germans, German communities. In its basic form it is a 9-card trick-and-draw game for two players using a 32-card piquet pack. As in other point-trick games of .... References Hungarian card games {{Card-game-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jass
Jass ()David Parlett ''The Oxford guide to card games'', pg. 292-293, David Parlett (1990) is a family of trick taking, ace–ten card games and, in its key forms, a distinctive branch of the marriage family. It is popular in its native Switzerland as well as the rest of the Alemannic German-speaking area of Europe, Italian South Tyrol and in a few places in Wisconsin, Ohio, California, Oregon and Washington USA. The most common variant of Jass is Schieber (in Vorarlberg also known as ''Krüzjass''), which is played by two teams of two players each. It is often considered Switzerland's national card game, and is so popular there that the Swiss have come to apply the name Jass to trick-taking card games in general. It is estimated that there are over 70 variants of Jass. The game is so widespread in Switzerland that it is regularly featured on radio and television, for example, radio programmes by SRF1 and the weekly television programmes of ''Donnschtig Jass'' ("Thursday Jas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaberjass
Klaberjass () or Bela is a trick-taking ace–ten card game that is most popular in Germans, German communities. In its basic form it is a 9-card trick-and-draw game for two players using a 32-card piquet pack. As in other point-trick games of the King–queen card games, king–queen group, players can score points for the "marriage" (''bela'') of king and queen of trumps. The distinguishing feature of Klaberjass is that the jack (''Jass'') and nine (''Manille'') of trumps are elevated to the highest ranks and highest card point scores. History and naming The game originates from the Low Countries and is recorded as early as 1730 as klaverjassen, "a type of card game in Holland". An early form was first described in an 1821 Dutch book under a name that translates as ''klaver Jas'', ''Jas'' being Dutch for ''Jack''. Klaberjass has spawned the Jack–nine card games, jack–nine family of card games, which consists mostly of four-player elaborations of the original game. In add ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a Germany, German-owned English publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers the Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year."About Penguin – company history" , Penguin Books. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths (United Kingdom), Woolworths and other stores for Sixpence (British coin), sixpence, bringing high-quality fiction and non-fiction to the mass market. Its success showed that large audiences existed for several books. It also affected modern British popular culture significantly through its books concerning politics, the arts, and science. Penguin Books is now an imprint (trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
