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{{italic title ''Schneider'' is a term used in many
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for a low card point score that results in boosting an opponent's game score. The threshold is usually half the total points needed for a win; below the threshold, the player or team is ''Schneider''; above it they are 'out of ''Schneider. Its natural extension is ''Schwarz'', said of a player or team who loses the game without taking a single trick.


Origin

The term ''Schneider'' ("tailor") is German and comes from the medieval guild of tailors. Tailoring was a trade often associated with financial difficulties. For example, the pejorative remark "a tailor doesn't weigh more than 30
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", alluding to a tailor being underweight, was a common saying. People who were financially better off were thus "out of ''Schneider''" i.e. "off the hook". In the 19th century, the term was also used by student fraternities. The drinking game "Lustig, meine Sieben", in which a pair of scissors was drawn on the table if one scored under 30 points, called the loser of the game a "tailor", who then had to drink twice the amount. In the wake of this the term was probably transferred to the then still relatively new game of Skat, which spread quickly, especially among Thuringian and Saxon students, and is now Germany's national game. The colloquial proverb from
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"To give someone a ''Schneider''" means to defeat an opponent without their scoring. It may be applied to any
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Schnapsen Schnapsen, Schnapser or Schnapsa is a trick-taking card game of the Bézique ( Ace-Ten) family that is very popular in Bavaria and in the territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire and has become the national card game of Austria and Hungar ...
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Card games

In certain card games, mainly
point-trick games A trick-taking game is a card or tile-based game in which play of a '' hand'' centers on a series of finite rounds or units of play, called ''tricks'', which are each evaluated to determine a winner or ''taker'' of that trick. The object of such ...
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, a player or partnership that achieves less than half the required card points from their tricks to win the hand, is described as ''Schneider''. They usually lose double the normal game points.Erhard Gorys: ''Das Buch der Spiele.'' Manfred Pawlak Verlagsgesellschaft, Herrsching o. J.; p. 11.


Skat

In the German national sport of Skat there are 120 card points in play and therefore a player needs at least 61 points to win the game. If the declarer scores 90 points or more (i. e. the defenders have 30 or fewer points), then the opponents are ''Schneider'' and the declarer is credited with a higher game score. Likewise, a declarer who fails to score at least 31 is ''Schneider'' and loses by a higher amount. An extension of ''Schneider'' is ''Schwarz''. This is where all the tricks are won by one player or partnership and achieve an even higher game score. In order to achieve ''Schwarz'', the opponent or opponents must not have won any tricks at all, even those which do not score any card points. In ''Hand'' games where the ''skat'' (the two cards in the
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or stock) is not picked up, the declarer may announce ''Schneider'', or ''Schneider'' and ''Schwarz''. In open games ''Schwarz'' is automatically assumed and the game value increases accordingly. The player loses the game at this value, however, if he does not achieved the announced goal. Should the player become ''Schneider'' or ''Schwarz'' in this situation, there is no additional penalty; i.e. you cannot ''Schneider'' yourself.


Schafkopf

In the game of
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 i ...
, if the soloist or declaring side score at least 91, they win ''Schneider'' and their opponents are said to 'be ''Schneider. The defending side only needs to score 90, to win ''Schneider''. That means that the soloist or declaring side must score at least 31 to be out of ''Schneider'' whilst the defenders only need to score 30 to do so. If a player or side wins no tricks by the end of the deal, they are ''Schwarz''.


Schnapsen and 66

In Austria's national game,
Schnapsen Schnapsen, Schnapser or Schnapsa is a trick-taking card game of the Bézique ( Ace-Ten) family that is very popular in Bavaria and in the territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire and has become the national card game of Austria and Hungar ...
, which is played between 2 players, 130 points are available: 120 in cards and 10 for winning the last trick. A player thus requires 66 points to 'go out' and win. A player also needs at least 33 points to be 'out of ''Schneider. As before, a player is ''Schwarz'' if he or she takes no tricks at all. One game point is scored for a simple win, 2 for a ''Schneider'' win and 3 for a ''Schwarz'' win. The same rules apply to the German variant of Schnapsen, known as Sixty-Six.''Sechsundsechzig (66)''
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Bauernschnapsen

In
Bauernschnapsen The card game of Bauernschnapsen (also called ''Viererschnapsen'') is an expanded form of the popular Austrian card game of Schnapsen, played by four players. This variant of Schnapsen is played throughout the whole of Austria. General rules Ba ...
, a variant of Schnapsen for four players, the term ''Schneider'' is used in a different way. In this game the aim is to be first to score 24 game points over several deals. This feat is recorded with a ''Bummerl'' or blob for the losers. However, if a team wins 24-0, the losers are ''Schneider'' and receive 2 ''Bummerls''.''Bauernschnapsen''
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A team that was winning 23-0, but then loses, receives a ''Retourschneider'' ("return schneider"), also called a ''Schuster'' ("cobbler"; probably a play on the fact that ''Schneider'' means "tailor") or ''Rücker'' ("returner"), which is worth 4 ''Bummerls''.


Other card games

Other card games that use the terms ''Schneider'' or ''Schwarz'' include: *
Bavarian Tarock Bavarian Tarock (german: Bayerisches Tarock) or, often, just Tarock, is a card game that was once popular in Bavaria and also played in parts of Austria as well as Berlin. The name is a clue to its origin in the historical German game of ross-ar ...
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Bohemian Schneider Bohemian Schneider (german: Böhmischer Schneider) is a card game for two people, which is played with a German-suited Skat pack of 32 cards. Because it is a simple trick-taking game, it is often played by older children and is recommended for age ...
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Elfern Elfern or Elfmandeln, is a very old, German and Austrian 6-card, no-trump, trick-and-draw game for two players using a 32-card, French-suited Piquet pack or German-suited Skat pack. The object is to win the majority of the 20 honours: the Ace, Kin ...
*
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 r ...
* Herzblatt *
Officers' Skat Officers' Skat (''Offiziersskat''), is a trick-taking card game for two players which is based on the rules of Skat. It may be played with a German or French pack of 32 cards which, from the outset of the game, are laid out in rows both face down ...
*
Oma Skat Oma Skat or Grandmother's Skat (in German, also ''Blinden-Skat'' or ''Skat mit totem Mann'') is a variation of the card game, '' Skat'', for two players. It is especially popular in the Lüneburg Heath area of north Germany Germany,, ...
*
Mucken Mucken or Muck is a variation of the popular German card game, Schafkopf. However, unlike Schafkopf, it must always be played in teams of 2 players, so there are no soloist or ''Rufer'' ("caller") contracts. Mucken is mainly found in the province ...
* Schieber Jass *
Schieberamsch Schieberamsch is an unofficial contract within the popular German card games, Skat and Schafkopf, but "also makes a good game in its own right."Sheepshead * Spitzer *
Wendish Schafkopf Wendish Schafkopf (german: Wendischer Schafkopf), Wendisch or Wendsch is a card game for four players that uses a Schafkopf pack of German-suited cards or a Skat pack of French playing cards. Aim The aim of the game is for each partnership of ...


Darts

In German darts competitions, ''Schneider'' occurs if the game or leg is ended and the loser has not achieved enough points from which it is possible to end the game with 3 darts. In a ''double out'' this is 170 points, in a ''triple out'' or ''master out'' it is 180 points. The term was probably borrowed from Skat.


''Matsch''

In some games, particularly of Austrian or south German origin, the term ''Matsch'' ("mud"), formerly ''Mätsch'' or ''Martsch'', is used instead of ''Schneider'', but often has the same meaning in card games. A player or team that has lost and typically scored fewer than ¼ of the points is said to be 'in the mud' (''im Matsch'', ''Matsch werden'') or ''gematscht'' and usually has to pay double. To 'make a march' (''einen Matsch machen'') means to win all tricks. Examples include
Einwerfen Einwerfen or Zählspiel is a German 8-card point-trick game for four players in two teams of two and using a 32-card German-suited pack. Its closest relative is the popular Portuguese game Sueca. Perhaps the most basic and typical representative ...
, German Tarok,
Hundertspiel Trappola is an early 16th-century Venetian trick-taking card game which spread to most parts of Central Europe and survived, in various forms and under various names like Trapulka, Bulka and Hundertspiel until perhaps the middle of the 20th centur ...
, Mariage,
Skwitz Skwitz was a 19th-century Austrian card game of the fishing type for 2 to 8 players that was said to be of English origin.Vanderheid (1866), p. 13–26. It may be a descendant of Cassino which it resembles. History The game appears as early as a ...
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. It can also mean a hand in which the loser wins no tricks at all, for example, in
Bauerntarock Bauerntarock ("farmers' tarot") also called Brixentaler Bauerntarock or Brixental Tarock, is a point-trick card game played in the Brixental, Austria. It may have originated in the 19th century either as an adaptation of 54-card Tapp Tarock onto ...
,
Dobbm Dobbm or Tappen is a card game played in the Stubai valley in Austria and is one of a family of games derived from the Tarot game of Grosstarock by adapting its rules to a regular, shortened pack of 36 cards. The ranking and point value of the ca ...
,
Droggn Droggn, sometimes called French Tarock (german: Französisches Tarock) is an extinct card game of the Tarock family for three players that was played in the Stubai valley in Tyrol, Austria until the 1980s. ''Droggn'' is originally local dialect f ...
,
Jaggln Jaggln or Jaggeln is an historical Tyrolean card game designed for five players that used to be played purely as a winter pastime by farming folk. An unusual feature are its three highest trumps known as ''Jaggl, Zanggl'' and ''Buggl''. The aim i ...
and games of the Swiss Jass family.''Herders Konversations-Lexikon'', p. 1462. Some English accounts mistranslate the term as 'match' but, in the sence of taking all tricks,
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is more accurate.


References


External links


''Schneider'' at skat-palast.de
Card game terminology Schafkopf group Skat (card game)