Enflé, Rolling Stone, Farbenjagd or Schweller is an early nineteenth-century French
trick-taking
A trick-taking game is a card or tile-based game in which play of a '' hand'' centers on a series of finite rounds or units of play, called ''tricks'', which are each evaluated to determine a winner or ''taker'' of that trick. The object of suc ...
card game
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Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker). A small number of card g ...
for three or more players that has been described as a "simple but maddening game" having "a lot of similarity to
Rams
In engineering, RAMS (reliability, availability, maintainability and safety)
French playing 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. I ...
, or 52 if there are more than four players. The aim is to be the first to completely shed all one's cards. The card ranking is Aces high i.e. A K Q J 10 9 8 7 (6 5 4 3 2).
Players must follow suit and the highest card of the led suit wins the trick. The winner picks it up and discards the trick. There are no trumps. If a player is unable to follow suit he must pick up all the cards played to the current trick into their hand, and lead to the next.
As soon as a player empties their hand, the game ends and that player is the winner. In early rules, there is no scoring system; however Parlett (2008) states that the winner scores the total of the cards in the other players hands with Ace to 10 at face value and
court card
A court is any person or institution, often as a government institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accord ...
s counting 10.
References
Literature
* _ (1983). "Schweller" in ''Erweitertes Spielregelbüchlein aus Altenburg'', Verlag Altenburger Spielkartenfabrik, Leipzig, pp. 181ff
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* Kastner, Hugo and Gerald Kador Folkvord (2005) "Rolling Stone" in ''Die große Humboldtenzyklopädie der Kartenspiele.'' Humboldt, Baden-Baden, pp. 359–360 Auszug .
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* Lebrun, M. (1828) ''Manuel des Jeux de Calcul et de Hazard.'' 2nd edn. Roret, Paris.
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* Müller, Reiner F. (1994). ''Die bekanntesten Kartenspiele''. Neff, Berlin. (as Farbenjagd)
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French deck card gamesRound gamesShedding-type card gamesCard games for children
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