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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 [Gross-]Tarock, a game using traditional Tarot cards.
German Tarok, sometimes known as Sansprendre or simply Tarok, is an historical ace–ten card game for three players that emerged in the 18th century and is the progenitor of a family of games still played today in Europe and North America.
Lardons may be prepared from different cuts of pork, including pork belly and fatback, or from cured cuts such as bacon [3] or salt pork.According to food writer Regina Schrambling, when the lardon is salt-cured but not smoked in the style of American bacon, "the flavor comes through cleanly, more like ham but richer because the meat is from the belly of the pig, not the leg". [4]
Jucker has been suggested as the ancestor of the popular American game, Euchre, on the basis of chronology, linguistics and mode of play. 19th century American sources show that eucre was being played as early as 1810 [12] and that by 1829, as uker, it was played with Bowers as early as 1829 in the American Mid-West, and that Euchre was invented in America during the 1820s from the mixing of ...
Watten, regionally also called Waddn, Watteln or Wattlung, is a card game that is mainly played in Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol, including Ladinia.There are several main variants: Bavarian, Bohemian, South Tyrolean (Stichwatten), (Austrian) Tyrolean, Kritisch and Blind Watten.
The difference between the two is that an expansion is added into a preexisting version of the game and a new edition is a complete rework of the game itself. Currently, the base English language edition of Citadels is called "Citadels Deluxe" and is sold with past expansion sets already included.
When a player has only one card left, they must say "Mau" (even if it is an Ace); if that card is a Jack, they must say "Mau-Mau". Failure means that the player must take a card. If the game is scored, and the winning card is a Jack, then all points against the losers are doubled. [4]
Karnöffel is a trick-taking card game which probably came from the upper-German language area in Europe in the first quarter of the 15th century. It first appeared listed in a municipal ordinance of Nördlingen, Bavaria, in 1426 among the games that could be lawfully played at the annual city fête. [2]