Traditional German card game played with a Bavarian 32 card deck. Similar to Skat but simpler bidding and scoring rules. Can also be played with a traditional French-suited 52 card deck by removing the 2-6 of each suit. Players either play in teams ("I'll play with the Ace of Leaves"), or one player decides to play a solo (worth more points) against the...
Schafköpfchen is an easy variation of Schafkopf, a trick-taking game popular in Austria and Bavaria. In each of the four colors of cards in the deck are six cards numbered 1-6; the deck also contains gray cards numbered 7-15, which are always trump. An additional trump color is determined each round by die roll. Each round, a player starts with eight cards...
Scharfe Schoten (a.k.a. "Hot Peppers") is a trick-taking game in which players predict their tricks — but instead of predicting the number of tricks they'll take, they have to state the color that they think they'll get the most or least tricks of. Since all cards show their color on the back, the players have more information than usual. In addition to...
scheiße is a card game, played with a standard 32-card French deck. Starting the first round with one card, the second with to cards and so on up to 7 cards each player. Then it goes down to one card again. After examining your cards you state the number of tricks you will win. The number of statet tricks is not allowed to be equal to the number of cards...
Description of Big Funeral (1964, Kookie): A card game of wits for 3-6 people. Theme: Throw Wild Funeral Parties While Still Alive Scheme: Make Your Friends Look Cheap Send Them To Slob Hill In An Orange Crate Coffin Dream: Accumulate $50,00 Worth of Hearses, Tombstones And Other Status Symbols Trick taking game where the 2nd highest card takes the trick....
Schmitz 21 is a Blackjack inspired card game where players are playing cards to a collective discard trying to be the one to reach exactly 21. The game comes with 55 cards: 10 times the numbers 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 [yes, there is no 4!] and 5 times the number 10. Each player starts with four cards. A central deck is formed from the rest of the cards. It is...
Schneeble is a light trick-taking game where the goal is to win a randomly generated (d6) number of tricks. As such, it's much more about HOW you play your cards than trick-taking games that follow a bidding process. Cards in Schneeble are suitless and run from 1-10 with the addition of a small number of "special effect" cards ("all players play their...
Schnellen; is a trick taking game with trumps. It is a popular card game in the region of Tyrol, South Tyrol and Vorarlberg. It is played with a set of German-suited playing cards (33 cards) where the 6 Bell-card (Weli) is always trump color and the second highest value. Each player gests five cards and is predicting the number of tricks taken by himself....
Remember the days of the old schoolyard... endless hours spent competing against your buddies in various childhood games; often resolved by Rock-Paper-Scissors or a simple Coin Toss. Schoolyard Tricks is a trick-taking micro card game for 2 players that will help you to relive some of that old school fun in around 10-20 mins. From a deck of just 15 cards...
Swiss trick-taking card game in which you can "lie" about following suit. The game is played with 2 decks of regular cards, but only using 8-A or 7-A depending on number of players. Like some other Swiss card games, the descending rank of cards is A-10-K-Q etc. In this particular game J's are both Trump and their own suit, so that a lead of a Jack must be...
11 sets of 4 cards each have to be played to gain as many points as possible by making up various scoring combinations. This can be done by: - making up the total of "12" - playing cards of the same number - playing runs and/or sequences - playing the Baden Powell card - being the last player in the round Game ends after several rounds until a player has a...