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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 Hungary. Schnapsen is both of the point-trick (individual cards in each trick are used to determine points as in Pinochle) and trick-and-draw (a new card is drawn after each trick is won) subtypes. The game is similar to Sixty-six (card game), sixty-six (''Sechsundsechzig''). Many rule variations exist, and both Schnapsen and sixty-six involve challenging strategy. Schnapsen has been described as "an inherently intense game that requires a lot of concentration and so isn't good for socializing, but it's a challenging game whose interest never wavers."''Schnapsen'' at www.pagat.com. Retrieved 10 Jun 2018. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Card Game
A card game is any game that uses playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, whether the cards are of a traditional design or specifically created for the game (proprietary). Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker). A small number of card games played with traditional decks have formally standardized rules with international tournaments being held, but most are folk games whose rules may vary by region, culture, location or from circle (cards), circle to circle. Traditional card games are played with a ''deck'' or ''pack'' of playing cards which are identical in size and shape. Each card has two sides, the ''face'' and the ''back''. Normally the backs of the cards are indistinguishable. The faces of the cards may all be unique, or there can be duplicates. The composition of a deck is known to each player. In some cases several decks are Shuffling, shuffled together to form a single ''pack'' or ''shoe''. Modern car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trick-taking
A trick-taking game is a card game, card- or tile-based game in which play of a ''Hand (card games), 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 (card game), spades, or to the value of the cards contained in taken tricks, as in point-trick games such as pinochle, the Tarot card games, tarot family, briscola, and most evasion games like Hearts (card game), 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 (card game), polignac are those in which the aim is to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Georg August Galletti
Johann Georg August Galletti (19 August 1750 – 16 March 1828) was a German historian and geographer. Galletti was born in Altenburg, Holy Roman Empire. His fame is not based on his merits as an academic, but on his reputation as the creator of a few hundreds of stylistic howlers, becoming a legend as ''Kathederblüten'' (teacher's howlers) originated during his time as a professor at the Ernestine Gymnasium in Gotha. He was known as the " absent-minded professor of Gotha" and died there aged 77. Some ''Kathederblüten'' of Galletti: * After the Battle of Leipzig you could see horses with three, four, or even more legs shot off running loose all over the countryside. * Deiotarus was his father's son. * Indeed, Councillor, I am well pleased with Blädner, but with Seifert not at all; but at least he's better than Blädner. * So you think that history is as easy as playing schnapsen? Ha! You can learn history in a flash, but learning schnapsen takes years of hard graft. * T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spades (card Suit)
Spades () () is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. It has the same shape as the leaf symbol in German-suited playing cards but its appearance is more akin to that of an upside down black heart with a stalk at its base. It symbolises the pike or halberd, two medieval weapons, but is actually an adaptation of the German suit symbol of Leaves created when French suits were invented around 1480.Dummett (1980), p. 22. In bridge, spades rank as the highest suit. In skat and similar games, it is the second-highest suit. Name The word "Spade" is probably derived from the Old Spanish ''spada'' meaning "sword" and suggests that Spanish suits were used in England before French suits. The French name for this suit, ("pike"), meant, in the 14th century, a weapon formed by an iron spike placed at the end of a pike. In German it is known as . It corresponds to the suit of leaves (, , or, in Bavaria, ) in the German-suited playing cards. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamonds (card Suit)
Diamonds () () is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. Diamonds along with the other French suits were invented in around 1480. It is the only French suit to not have been adapted from the German deck, taking the place of the suit of Bells. There was one early French pack that used crescents instead of diamonds, which may explain this anomaly. Rough coloring techniques on the red stripe on the German bells may have caused the circles to appear as irregularly shaped dots, and French cardmakers may have decided to drop the details and straighten out the sides. Name The original French name of the suit is ; in German and Polish it is known as . In older German-language accounts of card games, Diamonds are frequently referred to as ("cornerstone"). In Switzerland, the suit is still called ''Egge'' (''Ecke'' i.e. "corner") today. The term "Karo" went into the German language in the 18th century from the French , which goes back to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hearts (card Suit)
Hearts (, ) (, ) is one of the four playing card suits in a deck of French-suited playing cards, French-suited and German-suited playing cards. However, the symbol is slightly different: is used in a French deck while is used in a German deck. This suit was invented in 15th century Germany and is a survivor from a large pool of experimental suit signs created to replace the Playing card suit#Origin and development of the Latin suits, Latin suits. The standard German-suited system of Leaves (suit), leaves, Acorns (suit), acorns, hearts, and Bells (suit), bells appears in the majority of cards from 1460 onwards. There is no evidence for this system prior to this point. The French design was created around 1480 when French suits were invented and was a simplified version of the existing German suit symbol for hearts in a German-suited pack. In Swiss-suited playing cards, the equivalent suit is Roses (suit), Roses, typically with the following suit symbol: . Name In Contract bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suit Hearts (open Clipart)
A suit, also called a lounge suit, business suit, dress suit, or formal suit, is a set of clothes comprising a suit jacket and trousers of identical textiles generally worn with a collared dress shirt, necktie, and dress shoes. A skirt suit is similar, but with a matching skirt instead of trousers. It is currently considered semi-formal wear or business wear in contemporary Western dress codes; however, when the suit was originally developed it was considered an informal or more casual option compared to the prevailing clothing standards of aristocrats and businessmen. The lounge suit originated in 19th-century Britain as sportswear and British country clothing, which is why it was seen as more casual than citywear at that time, with the roots of the suit coming from early modern Western Europe formal court or military clothes. After replacing the black frock coat in the early 20th century as regular daywear, a sober one-coloured suit became known as a lounge suit. Suits are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Playing Cards
German-suited playing cards are a very common style of traditional playing card used in many parts of Central Europe characterised by 32- or 36-card packs with the suits of Acorns (''Eichel'' or ''Kreuz''), Leaves (''Grün'', ''Blatt'', ''Laub'', ''Pik'' or ''Gras''), Hearts (''Herz'' or ''Rot'') and Bells (''Schelle'', ''Schell'' or ''Bolle''). The German suit system is one of the oldest, becoming standard around 1450 and, a few decades later, influencing the design of the now international French suit system of Clubs, Spades, Hearts and Diamonds. Today German-suited playing cards are common in south and east Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, Liechtenstein, north Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, northern Serbia (Vojvodina province), southern Poland and central and western Romania. History Playing cards (''Spielkarten'') originally entered German-speaking lands around the late 1370s. The earliest cards were probably Latin- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
