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Skartin
A blank is a playing card in card games, card-point games that is a non-counter, or is worth nothing.Parlett (2008), p. 642. In Poker (card game), Poker, the term refers to a Community card poker, community card which is extremely unlikely to help any remaining player. The names of the non-counters varies from region to region and game to game. In Poker (card game), Poker, they are blanks, bricks or bombs. In the German games of Schafkopf, Doppelkopf, Sixty-six (card game), Sixty-six and Skat (card game), Skat, the 7s, 8s and 9s in all card suits are ''Luschen''. In the popular Swiss game of Jass the ''Luschen'' are the 6s, 7s, 8s and 9s; unlike Skat, however, the 9 of trump (card games), trumps, "Nell", is worth 14 points and is thus an exception; it ranks in the hierarchy immediately below the highest trump card, the Jack or Unter (playing card), Unter of Trumps (20 points) and above the Ace of Trumps (11 points). In Schafkopf, the 9s, 8s and 7s are also known as ''Spatzen'' ("sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarock (card Games)
Tarot games are card games played with tarot packs designed for card play and which have a permanent trump suit alongside the usual four card suits. The games and packs which English-speakers call by the French name tarot are called tarocchi in the original Italian, Tarock in German and similar words in other languages. Tarot cards were invented in northern Italy around 1420 for the purpose of playing cards. With their appearance came the first of the two great innovations in trick-taking games since they arrived in Europe: the concept of trumps. At around the same time or slightly earlier, a similar concept arose in the game of Karnöffel. In this south German game played with an ordinary pack, some cards of the given suit had full trump powers, others were partial trumps and the 7s had a special role. These features are retained in games of the Karnöffel family to the present, but are never seen in tarot games. Suits with these variable powers are called chosen or select ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plain-trick Game
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 games then may be closely tied to the number of tricks taken, as in plain-trick games such as contract bridge, whist, and spades, or to the value of the cards contained in taken tricks, as in point-trick games such as pinochle, the tarot family, briscola, and most evasion games like hearts. Trick-and-draw games are trick-taking games in which the players can fill up their hands after each trick. In most variants, players are free to play any card into a trick in the first phase of the game, but must ''follow suit'' as soon as the stock is depleted. Trick-avoidance games like reversis or polignac are those in which the aim is to avoid taking some or all tricks. The domino game Texas 42 is an example of a trick-taking game that is n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Parlett
David Parlett (born 18 May 1939 in London) is a games scholar, historian, and translator from South London, who has studied both card games and board games. He is the president of the British Skat Association. Life David Sidney Parlett was born in London on 18 May 1939 to Sidney Thomas Parlett and Eleanor May Parlett, née Nunan. He is one of three brothers. During the Second World War, Parlett lived in Barry, Glamorgan. He was educated at Battersea Grammar School and the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth. He has a BA in Modern Languages. Parlett was a technical writer with PR companies and later a freelance writer for ''Games & Puzzles'' magazine. He is married to Barbara and they have a son and a daughter. Works His published works include many popular books on games such as ''Penguin Book of Card Games'', as well as the more academic volumes ''The Oxford Guide to Card Games'' and ''The Oxford History of Board Games'', both now out of print. Parlett has also inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Sedlaczek
Robert Sedlaczek (born 1952) is an Austrian journalist, Germanist, expert for Austrian German, and non-fiction author.Entry for Robert Sedlaczek in the catalogue of the German National Library (DNB). Retrieved 2 August 2020. He is best known for his works on aspects of the German language. In addition, he writes books and articles on cultural history topics. In his book ''Die Tante Jolesch und ihre Zeit. Eine Recherche'' he traced the history of the industrial family of the same name as well as the lawyer, Hugo Sperber. These people are characters in Friedrich Torberg's book ''Die Tante Jolesch''. Life Robert Sedlaczek was born 2 April 1952 in Vienna. He studied German Studies, English Studies and Journalism in Vienna, earning a Doctor of Philosophy. From 1973 to 1978 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Mayr
Wolfgang Mayr (born 1944) is an Austrian journalist and former chief editor of Austria Presse Agentur. Life Mayr was born on 11 June 1944 in Schärding, Upper Austria. The son of an Innviertel teacher and merchant family, he attended the Stift Kremsmünster humanistic high school and then went to study in Vienna. In 1968, he joined the editorial team of the Austria Press Agency. In 1981 he became deputy head of department and in 1988 head of the foreign policy editorial department. From 1988 he worked as managing editor, became deputy editor-in-chief in 1993 and took over as successor to Josef A. Nowak in 1997. He campaigned for a modern and service-oriented agency, in particular by setting up an image service and a graphic editorial team in the 1980s and 1990s. He retired in 2005. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Dummett
Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett (; 27 June 1925 – 27 December 2011) was an English academic described as "among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality." He was, until 1992, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. He wrote on the history of analytic philosophy, notably as an interpreter of Frege, and made original contributions particularly in the philosophies of mathematics, logic, language and metaphysics. He was known for his work on truth and meaning and their implications to debates between realism and anti-realism, a term he helped to popularize. In mathematical logic, he developed an intermediate logic, a logical system intermediate between classical logic and intuitionistic logic that had already been studied by Kurt Gödel: the Gödel–Dummett logic. In voting theory, he devised the Quota Borda system of proportional voting, based on the Borda count, and conj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bräus
Bräus (or Brus) is an old Swedish card game from the island of Gotland that differs from all others in that not all cards are actually playable.Smith (1993), pp. 36/37 The game is descended from the oldest known card game in Europe, Karnöffel, a fact testified by its unusual card ranking and lack of a uniform trump suit.''Bräus regler'' at kortspelonline.se. Retrieved 21 May 2019. Bräus is designed for four players and is played with 36 cards of a , each of the four suits comprising the cards 6-10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace. However, only 22 of these cards may be played. Background ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brus (card Game)
Brus is a four-hand card game of German descent that was once played in Denmark and Estonia. The game is descended from the oldest known card game in Europe, Karnöffel, a fact testified by its unusual card ranking and lack of a uniform trump suit. Brus is designed for four players and is played with 36 cards of a French pack, each of the four suit (cards), suits comprising the cards 6-10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace. History Brus is described as an old Jutlandish game, but its rules and terminology suggest that it is descended from the centuries-old German game of Brusbart, now known as Bruus, which was once the national game of Hamburg and which spread across most of northern Europe spawning a family of games such as Russian Bruzbart, Polish Drużbart, Swedish Bräus, Greenlandic Voormsi and others. Brusbart in turn is descended from Karnöffel, the oldest card game in Europe with a continuous tradition of play down to the present day, a fact testified to by "the wildly disturbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruus
Bruus, formerly Brausebart or Brusbart, is a north German card game for four players in two teams of two. It was once highly popular but has since died out except for a few pockets in the state of Schleswig-Holstein. As Brusbart, it was the ancestor of a family of similar games in northern Europe, including Swedish Bräus and Danish Brus (card game), Brus which are still played today. Bruus features 'daring and tormenting' which has been said to give the game a certain charm. Once considered the national game of Hamburg, Bruus is a descendant of Karnöffel, the oldest identifiable European card game in the history of playing cards with a continuous tradition of play down to the present day. The game is named after the ''Bruus'' or ''Brusbart'', once its top card, but now its second-highest trump. History The game of Brusbart or Brausebart goes back at least to the first half of the 18th century, Amelung even suggesting that this "old German game" may have emerged as early as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Tarot
The game of French Tarot is a trick-taking strategy tarot card game played by three to five players using a traditional 78-card tarot deck. The game is played in France and also in French-speaking Canada. It should not be confused with French tarot, which refers to all aspects of cartomancy and games using tarot cards in France. Background France was one of the first two countries outside of Italy to start playing tarot, the other being Switzerland. While various types of tarot games were played in France since the 16th century, the dominant form now popular is the 19th-century rule set from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Historically, tarot games in France were played with the Italian-suited Tarot of Marseilles which had Renaissance allegorical images on the ''atouts'' while lacking reversible court cards and trumps and corner indices. For ease of play, the late 19th century French-suited "'' Tarot Nouveau''" or "Bourgeois Tarot" supplanted the Marseilles Tarot with depictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
