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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]
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Bavarian Tarock (German: Bayerisches 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 [Gross-]Tarock, a game using traditional Tarot cards.
Schwimmen or Einunddreißig is a social card game for two to nine players, played with a 32-card Piquet pack, that is popular in Austria and Germany.Similar games in the United States and Great Britain go under the names of Thirty-One, Blitz and Scat, but are played with a 52-card pack.
German Schafkopf is a partnership card game, but unlike Bavarian Schafkopf or Doppelkopf partners are not announced during the course of the game, but are permanent as in Bridge: the players facing one another are automatically partners. The seating order is determined by the drawing of playing cards before the game begins: the players who have ...
German solo or just solo is a German 8-card plain-trick game for 4 individual players using a 32-card, German-or French-suited skat pack. It is essentially a simplification of quadrille , itself a 4-player adaptation of ombre . [ 1 ]
The name Mauscheln means something like "(secretive) talk". According to Meyers Konversationslexikon of 1885 to 1892 the word Mauschel is derived from the Hebrew word moscheh "Moses", in Ashkenazi Hebrew Mausche, Mousche, and was a nickname for Jews; in Old German mauscheln means something like "speak with a Jewish accent" or haggle". [2]
In 1951, it was referred to as a "central German card game" [22] and in 1958, as "one of the most popular card games in Germany." [ 23 ] Although early 19th century Schafkopf played with double packs appears to have originated in Saxony and was played with German-suited cards , today, Doppelkopf has become very much a north German and west ...