Kaiserspiel, also called Kaisern or Cheisärä, is a
card game, usually for 4 or 6 players, that is played in parts of
Switzerland
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using a variant of the standard
Swiss playing cards
Parts of Swiss German speaking Switzerland have their own deck of playing cards referred to as Swiss-suited playing cards or Swiss-suited cards. They are mostly used for Jass, the "national card game" of Switzerland. The deck is related to the vari ...
with 40 or 48 cards. It is a descendant of
Karnöffel, one of the oldest card games known.
[''Kaiserspiel'']
at www.pagat.com. Retrieved 4 Jun 2018. It is sometimes misleadingly called ''Kaiserjass'', although it has nothing to do with the
Jass family of games that are popular in Switzerland.
Cards
The Kaiserspiel pack comprises four suits:
Shields,
Flowers,
Bells and
Acorns
Acorns may refer to:
* Plural of acorn, the nut of the oak tree
* Acorns (company), a micro-investing and robo-advisor financial company
* Acorns (suit), one of the four suits in German pattern playing cards
* Acorns Children's Hospice
Acorns ...
each of ten cards ranked as follows:
King,
Ober
Ober may refer to:
* '' Ober'', a 2006 Dutch black comedy film
* Ober (playing card), a playing card value in the German and Swiss decks of cards
* Ober, Indiana, an unincorporated community
* Oberek, a Polish dance
Surname
* Bailey Ober (born ...
,
Unter
Unter (German, 'under', 'below' or 'among') may refer to:
* Unter (playing card), the Jack card in German and Swiss-suited playing cards
* Unter Null, stage name of Erica Dunham, an American musician
See also
*
* Über (disambiguation), the a ...
,
Banner, (9), (8), 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 (
Deuce). The four Banners are normally part of the trump suit and are known as ''Kaisers'', hence the name of the game. In the 40-card variants, the 8s and 9s are removed. There are no
Aces.
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References
External links
* Matthew Macfadyen and Kirsty Healey, rev. John McLeod
''Kaiserspiel''
at www.pagat.com. Retrieved 4 Jun 2018.
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