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. The name means refers to the building of cards onto an Unter (the equivalent of the

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Overview

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where it is very popular in

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, but also played in every other state bar

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. It has many variants: those in which the Unter of Hearts is the starting card (''Rot-Mandl-Auflegen'', ''Rot-Unter-Ansetzen'' or ''Herz Unter anlegen''Wohlgenannt (2020), pp. 20–21.), those in which the Unter of Leaves is the leading card (''Grünmandlansetzen'' or ''Grünunteransetzen'') and those in which any Unter may start (''Unter-Anlegen'', ''Unter-Ansetzen'', ''Unter-Auflegen'' or ''Unterlegen'').Geiser (2004), p. 48. Unteransetzen is also a component of

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Cards

The game is usually played with a Tell pack in Austria or

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in Bavaria. In a 2-player game, a third of the pack is placed, face down, as a

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from which to draw. Otherwise all cards are dealt. Cards rank in their natural order – Sow, King, Ober, Unter, Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven – and there are no trumps.

Playing

Usually the player with the Unter of Hearts leads; sometimes the Unter of Leaves is used (hence names like ''Grünunteransetzen''). In clockwise order, players then attempt to 'build' onto the first card by laying next to it the next higher or lower card in suit sequence i.e. the second player would play either the Ober of Hearts or the Ten of Hearts. If a player cannot build in the same suit, they may lay another Unter, above or below the first, in suit order i.e. the U above the U or the U below the U. If they cannot build on an existing suit sequence or on the existing Unters, they must pass and, in a 2-hand game, draw another card from the talon. The player who is first to shed all their cards is the winner.

Related games

Buurnleggen

In North Germany there is a game called Buurnleggen (''Bauernlegen'' i.e. Jack-laying). It is described as a simple card game in which a Jack is placed on the table and players complete the rest of the suit before and after it. A player with no suitable card, but with another Jack, may start a new row. The winner is the first to shed all cards held.''Westmünsterländische Dialekte''
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References

Literature

* Altenburger Spielfabrik, ''Erweitetes Spielregelbüchlein aus Altenburg'', 8th edition, Dresden (1988) * Bamberger, Johannes and Erika Bruhns (1999). ''Kartenspiele für Kinder''.

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, Vienna.
Geiser, Remigius (2004). "100 Kartenspiele des Landes Salzburg"
in ''Talon'', Issue 13. * Hülsemann, Robert (1930). ''Das Buch der Spiele für Familie und Gesellschaft''. Hesse & Becker, Leipzig. * Wohlgenannt, Günther (2020). ''Jassen in Vorarlberg''. Lustenau: Buchdruckerei Lustenau.

External links

in ''Spiel und Spaß mit Freunden'' at /www.kirchenzeitung.at. Rules for Unter-Anlegen. {{Trick-taking card games Multi-player card games Austrian card games Shedding-type card games German deck card games