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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]
[a] As with Skat and Bavarian Schafkopf there is a set of official rules, but numerous unofficial variants. Although the German Doppelkopf Association (Deutscher Doppelkopf-Verband) has developed standard rules for tournaments, informal sessions are often played in many different variants, and players adopt their own house rules. Before playing ...
As early as 1840 there were two Doppelkopf clubs in Chemnitz, perhaps playing a game related to variants G, H and I. [12] The calling of an Ace, probably originated in German Solo, but had been adopted in Bavarian Schafkopf and its sibling Obsern by the 1840s, before von Alvensleben published the first rules for the variant of Wendish Schafkopf ...
Robert Frederick Foster published the rules of "Euchre for Five Players" in 1897. They are the same as his seven-handed version, but with a pack of just 28 cards and no joker. Five cards each are dealt in two rounds of 2 then 3 cards each, leaving a widow of 3 cards.
Like Skat and some other card games, the game is an offshoot of the German trick-taking game Schafkopf and has been played in Polish Kashubia since the 19th century. The region formerly had a large German-speaking population and both the play and terminology point to its German origins.
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Eldest hand is the first player dealt a 3 as an upcard. If no player has 3 face up, then the first player to declare a 3 in hand starts. If no-one has a 3, then the game is started by the person dealt a 4, etc. Eldest leads off by playing a card or set of cards face up in the middle of the table to start a common wastepile.