Kaiserspiel
 The card deck for Kaiserspiel | |
| Origin | Switzerland |
|---|---|
| Type | Trick-taking |
| Players | 4, 6 |
| Cards | 40 |
| Deck | Swiss deck (Kaiserspiel variant) |
| Play | Anticlockwise |
| Related games | |
| Karnöffel, Watten | |
Kaiserspiel is a card game for 4 or 6 players that is played in parts of Switzerland using a variant of the standard Swiss playing cards but with 3s, 4s and 5s, not 8s and 9s. It is a descendent of Karnöffel, one of the oldest known card games.[1]
Cards
The Kaiserspiel deck comprises four suits: Shields, Flowers, Bells and Acorns each of ten cards ranked as follows: King, Ober, Unter, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, Banner. The four banners are normally part of the trump suit and are known as Kaisers, hence the name of the game.[1]
References
- 1 2 Kaiserspiel at www.pagat.com. Retrieved 4 Jun 2018.
External links
- Matthew Macfadyen and Kirsty Healey, rev. John McLeod. Kaiserspiel at www.pagat.com. Retrieved 4 Jun 2018.
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