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trick-taking 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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s is one of the most common varieties, found in every part of the world. The following is a list of trick-taking games by type of pack:

52-card French-suited pack

32- or 36-card French-suited packs

German-suited packs

The following games are played with German-suited packs of 32, 33 or 36 cards. Some are played with shortened packs e.g.

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 ...

. German-suited packs are common, not just in Germany, but in Austria and Eastern Europe.

Italian-suited cards

Spanish-suited cards

The following games are played with 40- or 48-card Spanish-suited packs.

Tarock pack

Tarot card games Tarot games are card games played with tarot decks, that is, decks with numbered permanent Trump (card games), trumps parallel to the Playing card suit, suit cards. The games and decks which English-speakers call by the French name Tarot are cal ...

are played with a Tarock pack, usually of 54 or 78 cards comprising four French suits and a special trump suit of Tarots or Tarocks. The following games are played with such packs:

Dedicated deck

The following games use a dedicated deck of cards to play.

External links

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