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Widow (cards)
In card games, a talon (; French for "heel") is a stack of undealt cards that is placed on the table to be used during the game. Depending on the game or region, they may also be referred to as the blind, kitty, skat, stock, tapp or widow (US). Description In 1909, Meyers Lexicon described the talon as ''"the cards left over after dealing..."'' In games of chance, such as Pharo, it is ''"the stock of cards which the banker draws on"''. The talon is usually a pack of cards, placed face down, in the middle of the card table. In other games, there are however very different variations, for example in Königrufen. Talons may be placed face up or face down. Parlett describes a ''kitty'' as "the pool or pot being played for" or "a dead hand or widow". He also equates ''talon'' to ''stock'' as the "cards which are not dealt initially but may be drawn from or dealt out later in the play".Parlett, David. ''The Penguin Book of Card Games''. London: Penguin (2008), p. 642-646. . Exampl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pack Of Playing Cards
Pack or packs may refer to: Music * Packs (band), a Canadian indie rock band * Packs (album), ''Packs'' (album), by Your Old Droog * ''Packs'', a Berner (rapper), Berner album Places * Pack, Styria, defunct Austrian municipality * Pack, Missouri, United States (US) * Chefornak Airport, Alaska, US (by ICAO code) Groups of animals or people * Pack (canine), the family structure of African wild dogs, jackals and wolves ** Pack hunter, any animal that predates cooperatively * Cub scouts group, in scouting * Peloton, in road bicycle racing Containment, packaging, and shipping * Pack, a deck of playing cards * Backpack * Cigarette pack * Pack animal or beast of burden, an individual or type of working animal used by humans as means of transporting materials Other uses *Arctic ice pack * Pack (aircraft), P.A.C.K (Pneumatic Air Cycle Kit), a kit containing an air cycle machine that provides air conditioning as part of an aircraft's environmental control system * Pack (compre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bid Whist
Bid whist is a partnership trick-taking variant of the classic card game whist. As indicated by the name, bid whist adds a bidding element to the game that is not present in classic whist. Bid whist, along with spades, remains popular particularly in U.S. military culture and a tradition in African-American culture.The Everything Card Games Book: A Complete Guide to Over 50 Games, p. 93, Nikki Katz - Adams Media The game The general play of bid whist is similar to that of whist, with four notable exceptions. In whist, the trump suit for a given hand is determined at random by the last card dealt, whereas in bid whist, the trump suit (or whether there will even be a trump suit) for a given hand is determined by the outcome of the bidding process. Secondly, whether a trick is won by the higher-ranking card of the winning suit, or by the lower-ranking card of that suit is also determined by the outcome of the bidding process. Thirdly, since the ace is always the most powerf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bavarian Tarock
Bavarian 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 ross-arock, a game using traditional Tarot cards. At some point in the mid- to late-18th century, attempts were made to emulate Tarock using a standard 36-card German-suited pack, resulting in the formerly popular, south German game of German Tarok. During the last century, the variant played with a pot (''Haferl'') and often known as Bavarian Tarock or Haferltarock, evolved into "quite a fine game" that, however, has less in common with its Tarock progenitor. German Tarok also generated the very similar game of Tapp, played in Württemberg, and both are related to Bauerntarock, Dobbm and the American games of frog and six-bid solo. While in Bavaria "Tarock" without additions will usually mean this game, in Austria the term refers to true Tarock games, most commonly K� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallachen
Wallachen is an Old Bavarian card game, which used to be very popular in eastern Bavaria. Ober > Unter > 10 > 9 > 8 > 7. Trumps In the normal game, the card led to the first trick determines the trump suit for the hand. Within the trump suit cards rank as shown above and all trumps outrank other suit cards. There are no trumps in ''Bettel'' and ''Mord''. Playing Dealing Dealer shuffles the pack, offers it to middlehand to cut and then deals ten cards each, either in two packets of 5 or in two packets of 4 and one of 2 or in three packets of 3, 4 and 3 cards respectively. Two cards are then dealt to a ''start''. Each player has a doubling token such as a coin or matchbox in front of them. After the first 3 cards have been dealt to each player, the deal is paused while players look at these cards, and any player may 'double' (''doppeln'') the stake by pushing their token called the ''Doppler'' (formerly a matchbox, usually a coin) forwards. For example if all three playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skat (card Game)
Skat (), historically Scat, is a three-player trick-taking card game of the ace–ten family, devised around 1810 in Altenburg in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. It is the national game of Germany''Skat'' at www.pagat.com. Retrieved 3 Jun 2018. and, along with Doppelkopf, it is the most popular card game in Germany and Silesia and one of the most popular in the rest of Poland. A variant of 19th-century Skat was once popular in the US. John McLeod (card game researcher), John McLeod considers it one of the best and most interesting card games for three players,Keller, Thomas and Sebastian Kupferschmid, "Automatic Bidding for the Game of Skat" in ''KI 2008: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 31st Annual German Conference on AI'', Kaiserslautern: Springer, 2008, p. 96. . and Kelbet described it as "the king of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schieberamsch
Schieberamsch is an unofficial contract within the popular German card games, Skat and Schafkopf, but "also makes a good game in its own right."''Schieberamsch'' at . Retrieved 25 May 2021. Schieberamsch is a variation of the unofficial Ramsch contract, in which the aim is to score as few points as possible, the difference being that, in Ramsch the skat is left untouched until the end, whereas in Schieberamsch it is passed from player to player with or without an exchange of cards. Skat Unlike the basi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramsch
Ramsch, formerly also called Mike in East Germany, is a card game based on the contract of the same name in the popular German card games, Skat and Schafkopf. However, thanks to its interesting mode of play it has since developed into an independent game in its own right which is only loosely based on Skat or Schafkopf.''Ramsch'' at www.allekartenspiele.de. Retrieved 12 Oct 2018 It should not be confused with the games of the Rams family – Ramsen and Ramscheln – that also go by the name ''Ramsch''.Wedekind, Frank et al. (2007). ''Werke: kritische Studienausgabe'', Vol. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North American Skat
Skat (), historically Scat, is a three-player trick-taking card game of the ace–ten family, devised around 1810 in Altenburg in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. It is the national game of Germany''Skat'' at www.pagat.com. Retrieved 3 Jun 2018. and, along with , it is the most popular in and and one of the most popular in the rest of |
Fipsen
Fipsen or Fips is an old north German card game for 4 or 5 players that resembles British Nap (card game), Nap in some respects. It is a trick-taking game played with a standard Skat pack that was once popular across North Germany in the former states of Schleswig, Holstein, Mecklenburg and Pomerania, but is now restricted to the south Holstein region. In the village of Thedinghausen in Lower Saxony, a rather different game is played under the same name for currant buns called ''Hedewigs''. It has been described as "quite a special card game" that is "ancient, but very easy to learn".''Fipsen, ein ganz besonderes Kartenspiel'' at www.kreiszeitung.de. Retrieved 28 November 2018 History and distribution Fipsen is an old North German card game th ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Admirals' Skat
Officers' Skat (''Offiziersskat''), is a trick-taking card game for two players which is based on the rules of Skat. It may be played with a German or French pack of 32 cards which, from the outset of the game, are laid out in rows both face down and face up. As in Skat, tricks are taken and card points counted to determine the winner of a round; game points are then awarded to decide the winner of a game. There are several local variations of the game, which differ mainly in the number of cards revealed or hidden and the calculation of points. Name Officers' Skat is also called Two-hand Skat (''Zweimann-Skat'' or ''Skat zu zweit''), Sailors' Skat (''Seemannsskat''), Farmers' Skat (''Bauernskat''), Robbers' Skat (''Räuberskat'') or Coachmen's Skat (''Kutscherskat'') According to Grupp (1975), the name Officers' Skat (''Offiziers-Skat'' ) came from the fact that "officers only socialised with the men when they were in the barracks, but not at the skat table, so often there was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tausendundeins
1001 is a point-trick card game of German origin for two players that is similar to sixty-six. It is known in German as Tausendundeins and Tausendeins ("1001") or Kiautschou.Braun (1966).Hülsemann (1930), pp. 129–132. The winner is the first to 1001 points, hence the name. Hülsemann describes the game as "one of the most stimulating for two players", one that must be played "fast and freely". History and name The first rules were published in 1930 by Robert Hülsemann (1868–1950) who says the game is thought to have been devised by soldiers serving in the German overseas territory of Kiaochow (German: ''Kiautschou''), hence one of its alternative names.Hülsemann (1930), pp. 129–132. This dates its invention to the period 1898–1914. Hülsemann describes the game as "one of the most stimulating for two players" and a game that must be played "fast and freely". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crash (card Game)
Crash is a British card game extension of Three card brag, Nine-card BragDavid Parlett, ''Teach Yourself Card Games'' pg. 237 NTC-Contemporary Publishing Company (2000) and indeed is sometimes known as Thirteen Card Brag.''Crash (13-Card Brag)'' at pagat.com. Retrieved 29 July 2023. In Crash, there is no betting, as in Brag, but rather players aim to reach a total of 15 points, gained over successive deals. Distribution Crash is played over much of northern England and Wales from Coventry and Burton-on-Trent in the south to the counties of Cumbria and Yorkshire in the north, also in Welshpool in north central Wales and in South Wales. It is also recorded in Plymouth and Edinburgh, where it is called Crackers.Rules Crash has many rule variations.
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