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Kaiserspiel, also called Kaisern or Cheisärä, is a card game, usually for 4 or 6 players, that is played in parts of Switzerland using a variant of the standard Swiss playing cards with 40 or 48 cards. It is a descendant of Karnöffel, one of the oldest card games known. [1]
Tarot card games 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: The following games are played with such packs:
Unlike the Germans, the Swiss have maintained the Banner 10 after the mid-16th century. During the 17-century, ranks 3 to 5 disappeared from most decks save for those used to play Kaiserspiel. [2] Basel was an early center for manufacturing packs. Two identical decks from around 1530 were independently discovered in 1998 and 2011. [3]
Games played with 36 cards may be of considerable antiquity as the standard German card pack reduced to 32 cards during the 19th century (see Dummett 1980). Several of these games are attempts to play the Tarot game of Grosstarock with standard French- or German-suited cards.
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.
All other games are won with 53 points or more. In partnership games, the partners combine their points. A team scoring 25 or fewer points loses double and a team taking no tricks in a normal game loses triple. The basic game values are: Normal game: 1 game point; Normal game won double: 2; Normal game won triple: 3; Silent Solo: 4; Solo: 5 ...
Jass (German pronunciation: ⓘ) [1] is a family of trick taking, ace–ten card games and, in its key forms, a distinctive branch of the marriage family.It is popular in its native Switzerland as well as the rest of the Alemannic German-speaking area of Europe, Italian South Tyrol and in a few places in Wisconsin, Ohio, California, Oregon and Washington USA.
Quodlibet (Latin: "what you like") is a traditional card game and drinking game associated with central European student fraternities that is played with William Tell pattern cards and in which the dealer is known as the 'beer king'. [1] [2] It is a compendium, trick-taking game for 4 players using a 32-card pack of German-suited playing cards. [1]