bonus An extra amount added to a player's score for the game for holding or winning certain cards or for achieving certain goals, such as Schneider. To use various tactics to mislead one's opponent(s) about the distribution of cards or one's strategy.īuild To add cards to those already on the table in order to extend a set or sequence.To attempt to deceive one's opponent(s) about the value of cards in one's hand.Cards dealt to the table as a skat or widow.īlocking Blocking a suit is keeping a high card back so that the player with a number of smaller cards cannot win tricks with them.

blaze A hand consisting only of court cards. To blank a suit is to get rid of all the cards of that suit from one's hand. To discard in such a way as to leave a card unprotected: 'She blanked the King of Spades.' īlank suit A suit of which one holds no cards.A card that is unguarded by other, usually lower cards in the same suit: 'I held the blank king of spades.'.In card-point games, a card that is worth no points.The player who makes the highest bid and plays out his announced contract.An offer to win a minimum or specified number of tricks or points or the privilege of naming the trump suit or the game.īettel or bettler Bid or contract to win no tricks. Double bête: a double penalty, usually for failing to make a contract after choosing to play out the cards.Likewise in Mauscheln, if the declarer, or Mauschler, fails to win a trick, he is the Mauschlerbete. A player who fails to takes a single trick in Mistigri.for failing to take the minimum number of tricks, or for a stake or money which a player has lost. A penalty payment in certain games for e.g.Any wager on the outcome of a deal or game any chips put in a pot to put chips in a pot.best card Highest card of a suit not yet played. Bells One of the four suits in a German pack of cards. Symbol: or beater Term used in games of the Karnöffel family for quasi-trump cards able to beat those of lower rank or with no powers at all. Batons One of the four suits in a Latin-suited pack of cards. base value A constant factor in working out the value of a game e.g. banking game A less-skilled card game of the gambling type in which one or more punters play against a banker, who controls the game.

banker Also called the house or the bank, the person responsible for distributing chips, keeping track of the buy-ins, and paying winners at the end of a banking game. Suit of Bells balanced hand A hand of cards with no void suit, singleton or very long suit. The player with the highest bid wins the auction and plays his chosen game or exercises his privilege. The phase in some card games where players may bid to lead the game, or bid on a certain hand or privilege in that hand such as naming the trump suit. Q K A 2 3 4 auction The period of bidding. Īround the corner Phrase that describes sequences or runs that are built either side of the Ace e.g.

Chips required to be put into the pot before the deal.

A mandatory stake made before the game begins - usually by all players, sometimes by the dealer only.

However, Dummett prefers to restrict 'announcement' for the intention to achieve certain feats in play, while preferring 'declaration' for a statement that one has a special combination of cards in one's hand.

Often used in both senses of declaration.

alone Playing without the help of a partner. Prop and Cop in Solo Whist or the normal game in Schafkopf). alliance A temporary partnership that lasts only for the current deal or hand (e.g. age Order of priority for leading, betting or bidding, starting from the player next to the dealer. an adverse lead is one made by an opponent adverse trumps are those held by one's opponent(s). adverse Pertaining to an adversary or opponent e.g. Īdversary Any opposing player, especially in two-hand games, or an opponent of the declarer.

A player who has not withdrawn from the current deal but elected to play on (as in Rams or Poker).

is not sitting out because there are more players than the game is designed for as in four-hand Skat or five-hand Schafkopf).

A player who receives cards in the current deal (i.e.

Suit of Acorns Acorns One of the four suits in a German-suited pack of cards.

Commonly refers to the Deuce or Two in German-suited packs which don't have real Aces.

Usually the highest card of a suit, ranking immediately above the King.

The card with one pip in a pack of cards.

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