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Sheepshead is an American trick-taking card game derived from Bavaria's national card game, Schafkopf (lit. 'sheep's head'), hence it is sometimes called American Schafkopf. Sheepshead is most commonly played by five players, [1] but variants exist to allow for two to eight players. There are also many other variants to the game rules, and many ...
The rules of the game were officially established by the Bavarian Schafkopf Club (Bayerischer Schafkopf-Verein e. V.) at the 1st Bavarian Schafkopf Congress on 17 December 1989 in Munich's Hofbräuhaus [5] These were updated by the School of Schafkopf (Schafkopfschule e. V.) in 2007 which has published a revised version on its website. [6]
In an East German book of game rules [27] there are the following variations of German Schafkopf which appear to reflect, in part, Hammer's variants: Classic Schafkopf: as described, Jacks/Wenzel are always trumps, the player with the so-called 'old man', the Jack of Clubs or the Unter of Acorns, must choose trumps if all pass or cannot bid ...
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
David Parlett's book Teach Yourself Card Games recommends the site as the first and probably the only place one needs to seek for rules of card games, [3] and his A-Z of Card Games refers to entries in pagat.com for the rules of those games that are only mentioned in the book. [4] While the website provides rules for an immense number of card ...
A pack of 24, 28 or 32 cards is used. If a standard 52-card pack is used, the 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 6s are always removed. In addition, the 7s are removed to form a 28-card pack and the 7s and 8s to form a 24-card pack.
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