Grobhäusern

	Grobhäusern Grobhäusern is an historical German vying game in which players bet and then compare their 4-card combinations. It is played by two to eight players using a 32-card piquet pack. The game was illegal in most places. It was popular in rural Upper Saxony in the late 18th century. History Grobhäusern and Trischak are described as "similar", but nevertheless "different" from Scherwenzel by Adelung in 1780. As of the late 18th century, Grobhäusern was played in rural Upper Saxony, and Scherwenzel was played in rural areas of Germany, Poland, Silesia and Bohemia."Scherwenzel" Adelung, Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart, Volume 3. Leipzig 1798, p. 1427. The use of Jacks (and to a lesser extent 9s) as wildcards in Scherwenzel may be related to the elevation of Jacks (and to a lesser e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Scherwenzel Scherwenzel or Scharwenzel is an historical, south German, gambling game played with cards and named after the Unters or Jacks that had special privileges. It should not be confused with the north German card game of Scharwenzel, which is a relative of German Solo and in which the Jacks are permanent top trumps, below the black Queens and the trump 7. Origin of the name The word Wenzel was a short form in German of the male first name ''Wenzeslaus'' which is Wenceslas or Wenceslaus in English. For reasons that are not entirely clear a ''Scherwenzel'' was originally a pejorative name for an obsequious servant or lackey. Card game As a card game, Scherwenzel appears to have been a form of Färbeln played especially in Bavaria in which the Unters were variously known as ''Scharwenzels'', ''Scherwenzels'', ''Scherers'' or ''Wenzels''. They, and to some extent also the Nines, functioned as wildcards. According to Adelung, Grobhäusern was "far simpler than Scherwenzeln".Adelu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Trischak Trischaken is an historical Austrian and German gambling card game for three to five players and related to French Brelan.Schmidt (1800), p. 263. History Trischaken is mentioned as a card game as early as 1706 in a poem and listed as a banned gambling game in a 1734 law book of Anhalt-Bernburg. An indication of its distribution is given by its inclusion in a 1771 Bremen-Lower Saxon dictionary and its description as "popular" in Bavaria from at least the late 18th to mid-19th century.Weber (1855), p. 332. The word was also spelt ''dreschaken'', meaning "to beat, thrash, cudgel", and may have been derived from ''dreschen'', to thresh, recalling the game of Karnöffel whose name also means "to thrash". In 1871 it was described as a game of chance, popular with peasants "in the provinces" and played with the "large old German cards", which presumably meant 36- or even 48-card, German-suited packs. ''Treschaken'' was equated with French Brelan and the game of Krimp, Krimpen or Kri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	French-suited Cards French-suited playing cards or French-suited cards are cards that use the French suits of (clovers or clubs ), (tiles or diamonds ), (hearts ), and (pikes or spades ). Each suit contains three or four face/court cards. In a standard 52-card pack these are the ( knave or jack), the ( lady or queen), and the (king). In addition, in Tarot packs, there is a (cavalier) ranking between the queen and the knave. Aside from these aspects, decks can include a wide variety of regional and national patterns, which often have different deck sizes. In comparison to Spanish, Italian, German, and Swiss playing cards, French cards are the most widespread due to the geopolitical, commercial, and cultural influence of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Other reasons for their popularity were the simplicity of the suit insignia, which simplifies mass production, and the popularity of whist and contract bridge. The Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]