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In some Austrian and South Tyrolean card games, one or more other cards may be used as wild cards, including the Weli, a special 6 of Bells, the 7 of Bells and 7 of Acorns. In the game of Perlaggen there are six or seven wild cards: four permanent Perlaggs - K or Maxl , 6 or Weli , 7 or Little Weli , the 7 of Bells or Bell-Spitz and 7 or ...
Perlaggen originated in the South Tyrolean valleys of the Etschtal and Eisacktal when South Tyrol was part of Austria.Its beginnings go back to the 19th century. The oldest known record of the game of Perlaggen comes from an 1853 booklet, Das Tiroler National- oder Perlagg-Spiel, which describes the origins of the game in Giltspiel as well as its rules. [1]
Games played with 36 cards may be of considerable antiquity as the standard German card pack reduced to 32 cards during the 19th century (see Dummett 1980). Several of these games are attempts to play the Tarot game of Grosstarock with standard French- or German-suited cards.
Bieten, Laubbieten, Lab bietn or Labbieten (in South Tyrol) or Bavarian Poker (German: Bayrischer Pocker) [1] is a card game that is popular in the Austrian Tyrol and the Bavarian Prealps. It used to be a game frequently played by timber rafters and muleteers. It can be seen as a precursor to the traditional Tyrolean game of Perlaggen.
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Hubert Auer (born c. 1950) is an Austrian schoolmaster and card game researcher who is particularly noted for his research into the historic Tyrolean game of Perlaggen which resulted in it being awarded the status of an item of immaterial cultural heritage by the Austrian UNESCO Commission, the first card game in the world to be so honoured.
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