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This brief survey of German games is now organized according to the type of card used.
German suited cards Eichel Gra leaves acorns costumes or Gr n Herz hearts or rot and Schellen bells are used gerneral in southern and Bayern southeast, Sachsen, Th ringen, parts of Baden-Württemberg Each region its own characteristic pattern, variously available in 32, 36, 24 and 48 forms of cards from the card package 48 being a double deck of cards 24.
In northern and western Germany, the German suited cards are virtually unknown, and the games are played with French suited cards that come in packs of 32 cards, 24 cards or 52 cards plus jokers The French costumes two German names together - a derivative of the french suit names and a purely German bridge players all tend to use french names derived Pik Heart Karo Treff picnic, heart, diamonds and clubs the corresponding German names respectively are Schippen Herz Eckstein and Kreuz Schippen and Eckstein are rarely used for spades and diamonds, although I came across them in the black Forest the most usual name game for costumes is a Kreuz mixture for clubs, Pik for spades, Herz for the hearts and Karo for diamonds.
Although the card 36 German right packaging is generally labeled Tarock, the traditional French pack suitable Tarock card 54 is used in Baden for their national game Cego.
Each suit consists of Ace Ace, King K nig, More Ober, Sub Unter, 10, 9, 8, 7 cards that are now commonly known as aces were originally two and are still sometimes called Daus Deuce.
These cards are used in Saxony and Thuringia for the national card game Skat in Bavaria Schafkopf and Watten games are more popular Bavarian model is normally sold 36 cards, but les six seats are not used to these games.
The composition is the same as for the map pack 32, with the addition of six in each suit These cards are used for the now rare game Bavarian Tarock and parents The game itself is related to Tarot decks but the pack has no special costume cards found in traditional Tarot trumps.
The composition is the same as pack 32 cards, but with eight and Sevens omitted It is used for the two-player game Sechsundsechzig 66 In Bavaria, Schafkopf is often played today with the reduced pack.
There are two forms of the latter is a dubbed version of the map pack 24 and is used for Doppelkopf in southeastern Germany, where the cards are adapted German in general use.
The second version has sevens instead of two nines each of A K O U 10 7, in each combination is used in W rttemberg for Gaigel and Binokel which is similar to American game Pinochle.
Each suit consists of Ace Ace, King K nig, Queen Dame, Jack Bube, 10, 9, 8, 7 These are the cards used in most countries for the German national card game of Skat The same cards are used to other games, such as Schwimmen Pochspiel Mauscheln Solo Siwweschr m Klabberja and Fipsen.
Played Games with 52 cards also are sometimes played with 32 cards in Germany - for example Mau Mau the German version of Crazy Eights and even poker.
These are sometimes called net Scharfe cards and consist of only Karten AKDB 9 in each suit They are used to Sechsundsechzig 66, and Kujong game played in the Eifel region, on the border with Luxembourg, this pack also uses .
It is a double form of the card package 24, used to Doko is popular thoughout northern Germany Often it is played with only 40 cards, omitting the nines.
The pack of 52 international cards is used in Germany and elsewhere Bridge It is also used for local versions of Romm Rummy and Canasta which generally require several packets with pranksters There is also now a local version of the president as the Einer ist immer der Arsch A pack with three jokers 55 cards is used in Schleswig-Holstein to the local game Zwickern and in packs made with up to six pranksters have been made for changes in the game.
This pack consists of 22 trumps Gstie, which looks a bit like a joker, and cards with a large number of 21 to 1, more than 8 cards in each of the four French suits suit cards are king , queen, knight, Jack 10, 9, 8, 7 in black suits and king, queen, knight, jack, ace 2, 3, 4 in the red suits This is used in the black Forest for the national card game Baedn of Cego is a Tarot deck somewhat unusual it is also used in parts of the black Forest to the Vier-Anderle gambling game also known as Strassenwart.
The game Grosstarok Tarok and the Hombre using all 78 Tarock pack cards with French suits were fashionable in the 19th century but it is almost completely dead in the 20, but a descendant of Grosstarok is still played in Denmark for German 78 packs Tarock cards are no longer manufactured, the remaining players have to import their cards in France, I heard of a family who went on to play a set of 78 cards Tarock 4 players in which a partner is chosen by calling King, who was played by students in the 1890s is a description of it in German.
World Casino Directory has a list of casinos in Germany.
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