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Ace-Ten
An Ace-Ten game is a type of card game, highly popular in Europe, in which the Aces and Tens are of particularly high value. Description Many of Europe's most popular card games feature the Ace-Ten scoring system, where the cards count as Ace = 11, Ten = 10, King = 4, Queen or Ober = 3, Jack or Unter = 2. Pip cards below the Ten generally have no card point value and the pack is often shortened by removing the lower pip cards or 'non-counters'. This means that, in a typical shortened pack of between 20 and 36 cards, there are 120 card points and thus a winning total is typically 61 points. Wins are doubled for scoring three-quarters of the total points and trebled for winning every trick, a scoring system known as the Skat schedule after its "most illustrious" example, the German national game of Skat. There are 3 branches of the Ace-Ten family: * Schafkopf group. The trump suit is bolstered by the promotion of all Unters (Jacks) or all Obers (Queens) or both to be permanent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brusquembille
Brusquembille or BriscambilleTrömer, Jean Chretien (1755). ''Jean Chretien Toucement des Deutsch Franços Schrifften''. Vol. 2. expanded. Nuremberg: Raspe. pp. 285 – 286. is an historical, French, 3-card trick-and-draw game for two to five players using a 32-card piquet pack. The game has variable trumps. Side-payments are made for keeping or winning aces and tens. The Brusquembille rules published in 1718 are the earliest surviving French rules of an Ace-Ten card game. Cards have precisely the same card-point values as in a number of modern games such as Skat. Basic game mechanism When three or five play, two sevens are removed to make the number of cards divisible by the number of players. When four play, they can form two partnerships. Partners sit on the same side so that they can consult each other's hand. Each player is dealt 3 cards. The first card from the remaining stock is put face-up and crosswise under the stock. It determines the trump suit and will be the last ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loosing Loadum
Losing Lodam is an historical English card game for three or more players. It is a 'negative' game like Hearts whereby the aim is to avoid taking tricks with certain cards known as ''loaders''. Names The game is variously called Lodam, Loadam, Losing Lodam, Losing Lodum, Loosing-Lodam, Loosing Loadem, Losing Loadum or At Losing, Load Him. History The earliest English record dates to 1591 where the game is referred to as "Lodam", but the only description appears in Francis Willughby's 1665 book, ''A Volume of Plaies''. It may be the game listed by Rabelais as ''coquinbert qui gaigne perd'' in 1534, although ''Conquinbert'' is later equated to Reversis, another negative game. It is an early example of a game using a form of the Ace-Ten scoring system, albeit in a negative way, and the only English Ace-Ten game. Rules The following rules are based on Willughby: Cards A standard 52-card pack is used with Aces ranking high. The aim is to avoid taking tricks with certain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Losing Lodam
Losing Lodam is an historical English card game for three or more players. It is a 'negative' game like Hearts whereby the aim is to avoid taking tricks with certain cards known as ''loaders''. Names The game is variously called Lodam, Loadam, Losing Lodam, Losing Lodum, Loosing-Lodam, Loosing Loadem, Losing Loadum or At Losing, Load Him. History The earliest English record dates to 1591 where the game is referred to as "Lodam", but the only description appears in Francis Willughby's 1665 book, ''A Volume of Plaies''. It may be the game listed by Rabelais as ''coquinbert qui gaigne perd'' in 1534, although ''Conquinbert'' is later equated to Reversis, another negative game. It is an early example of a game using a form of the Ace-Ten scoring system, albeit in a negative way, and the only English Ace-Ten game. Rules The following rules are based on Willughby: Cards A standard 52-card pack is used with Aces ranking high. The aim is to avoid taking tricks with certai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schafkopf
Schafkopf (), also called Bavarian Schafkopf, is a popular German Trick-taking game, trick-taking card game of the Ace-Ten family for four players that evolved, towards the end of the 19th century, from German Schafkopf. It is still very popular in Bavaria, where it is their national card game played by around two million people, but it also played elsewhere in Germany and in Austria. It is an official cultural asset and important part of the Altbayern, Old Bavarian and Franconian way of life. Schafkopf is a mentally demanding pastime that is considered "the supreme discipline of Bavarian card games"''Bayerische Kartenspiele: Vom Aussterben bedroht: Retten Sie das Karteln!'' at w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King (playing Card)
The king is a playing card with a picture of a king displayed on it. The king is usually the highest-ranking face card. In the French version of playing cards and tarot decks, the king immediately outranks the queen. In Italian and Spanish playing cards, the king immediately outranks the knight. In German and Swiss playing cards, the king immediately outranks the '' Ober''. In some games, the king is the highest-ranked card; in others, the ace is higher. Aces began outranking kings around 1500 with Trappola being the earliest known game in which the aces were highest in all four suits. In the Ace-Ten family of games such as pinochle and schnapsen, both the ace and the 10 rank higher than the king. History The king card is the oldest and most universal court card. It most likely originated in Persian Ganjifeh where kings are depicted as seated on thrones and outranking the viceroy cards which are mounted on horses. Playing cards were transmitted to Italy and Spain via the Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariage (card Game)
() or Mariagenspiel is a German 6-card trick-and-draw game for two players in which players score bonus points for the "marriage" of King and Queen of the same suit. The game, first documented in 1715 in Leipzig, spawned numerous offshoots throughout continental Europe and gives its name to the Marriage group of card games, the widest known of which is probably Sixty-Six. Many of these are still the national card games of their respective countries. It is unrelated to the Nepalese game of Marriage. History Parlett notes that "despite claims for its invention at Paderborn, Westphalia, in 1652, it is not attested earlier than 1715," although Kozietulski stated in 1888 that it had been popular in Poland for two centuries which dates its appearance there to the late 17th century and he doubts it is of Polish origin on account of its French name and the marriage feature which appears in old French games. The 1715 record, which gives an incomplete sketch of the rules of ''Mariage-Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briscola
Briscola (; lmo, brìscula; scn, brìscula, nap, brìscula) is one of Italy's most popular games, together with Scopa and Tressette. A little-changed descendant of Brusquembille, the ancestor of Briscan and Bezique, Briscola is a Mediterranean trick-taking, Ace-Ten card game for two to six players played with a standard Italian 40-card deck. The game can also be played with a modern Anglo-French deck, without the eight, nine and ten cards (see Portuguese variations below). With three or six players, twos are removed from the deck to ensure the number of cards in the deck is a multiple of the number of players; a single two for three players and all four twos for six players. The four- and six-player versions of the game are played as a partnership game of two teams, with players seated such that every player is adjacent to two opponents. The cards The traditional Italian-suited pack used for Briscola consists of forty cards, divided into four suits: coins (Italian: ''Denar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindersche
Hindersche or Hintersche , also known as 4-Strich, is an unusual card game, of the trick-avoidance genre, that is still played in the Black Forest region of Germany. 10 > 9 > 8 > 7 > 6 - except that there are two top trumps. The trump Jack is the highest card in the game and known as "the Old Man" (''de alt'', ''der Alte''); the Jack in the next suit is the second-highest card and is known as "the Little Man" (''de kloei'', ''der Kleine''). For example, if Diamonds are trumps, the J is the highest card and the J is the second highest. Hindersche is a point-trick game with the points counting as follows: Thus there are 140 points in the pack. Rules The following rules are based on Schoch:Schoch, Uwe (2014). ''im Hindersche: Spielregeln'' Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach im Schwarzwald. Deal Deal and play are anticlock ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jass
:Jass ''was also an early name for Jazz music. For other uses, see 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 and Ohio, 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 programme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marriage Group
The Marriage group is a large family of point-trick card games in which the 'marriage' of two cards, usually a King and Queen, plays an important role and attracts a bonus. They are believed to be descended from a German game, Mariagenspiel or Mariage, which dates back to at least 1715. Well-known games in this group include Bezique and the national card games of Austria (Schnapsen), Hungary (Ulti), France (Belote), Switzerland (Jass) and the Netherlands (Klaverjas). Description Mariagenspiel (German for '' game'', using the original French word for marriage rather than the German word, ''Heiraten'') is the earliest and most typical representative of the group. It was first described in a 1715 ladies' encyclopedia printed in Leipzig. The game's entry said that the game was popular among ladies, and the entry for ''playing card'' listed ' first among nine card games played with the German pack. Despite the marriage theme, the Queen was replaced by the equivalent male character in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Schafkopf
German Schafkopf (german: Deutscher Schafkopf) is an old German card game and the forerunner of the popular modern games of Skat, Doppelkopf and Bavarian Schafkopf. Today it is hardly ever played in its original form, but there are a number of regional derivations. History Schafkopf dates to the 18th century or earlier and is the oldest member of the Schafkopf family.McLeod (1978), pp. 38-47. A 1783 novel describes the scene after a wedding dinner as the dining tables were cleared away and replaced by games tables: "here stood an Ombre table, there a noble Schafkopf was played, over there a game of forfeits, soon everybody was busy playing when suddenly the sound of the strings announced the arrival of the dance band..." In 1796, we learn that students at Leipzig University liked to repair to disreputable bars to play Solo or Schafkopf for a couple of Dreiers. In 1811, it is described as "a cute little game layedwith chalk and collection bag pennies". and its rules are recorde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bauerchen
Bauerchen, also Bauerchens, Bauerspiel, Bauersche or Bauersches, is a trick-taking card game of the Ace-Ten family for four players that is played in the Palatinate region of Germany, especially around the city of Kaiserslautern, Bower of Diamonds > Trump Ace > Trump 10 > Trump King (Pal.: ''Kenisch'') > Trump Queen (Pal.: ''Dahm''). Card points The values of the individual cards are as follows: In addition, the last trick of the game usually scores 10 points extra, so that there is a total of 130 points per game. Where this is the case, it is referred to as the 'Lautern game' (Pal.: ''Lautrer Spiel'') because there is a variant played outside of Kaiserslautern in which the last trick does ''not'' score a bonus. ''Schneider'' is then 31 points, not 33 and only 61 are required to win, not 66. Playing A 'game' is a deal of five tricks, a 'round' comprises several games - until one team reaches 12 points. The team that wins two rounds scores a ''stein'' ("rock"), sometimes cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
