Fire (card game)

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Fire or Fingerkloppe, Kloppe , Rot Händle or Torture Mau-Mau is a card game that is normally played with a 32-card Skat sheet . However, depending on the number of players, the number of cards may increase. The game is mainly in German spread space in children and adolescents.

Game flow

Card game

Each player receives four cards. The player to the right of the dealer receives five and begins the round. The aim of the game is to get four cards with the same numerical value (a so-called quartet ) in your hand (e.g. four pawns). This is achieved by handing the “fifth” card over and over to the player on the right. The latter keeps the card and passes another one on or passes the card handed to him directly. Once a card has been used, it is out of the game and a new card is taken from the talon . If another player reaches the goal and has four identical cards in hand, he puts them face up in front of him and calls out: "Knock your finger!" Or "Fire!". Immediately the other players must also put their cards down in front of them. Whoever does this last has lost. If there are two players, the one who did not manage to collect four of the same cards loses.

punishment

After the card game, the loser is punished. Two different punishments have been established for this:

In the original case, the loser names a card (e.g. ace of hearts) and the winner counts down the cards from the top of the shuffled talon until the wish card appears. With this pile, the loser is hit on the stretched fingertips.

In the second case, too, the loser names any card and indicates whether the talon is drawn from above or below. Then he places one hand , inside down, on the table. The winner now draws the top or bottom card, as desired. The color indicates what will happen to the loser:

  • Heart ( ♥ ) = stroke the back of the hand
  • Diamonds ( ♦ ) = you ratchet once firmly with your finger bones over the back of the hand
  • Spades (♠) = hit the back of the hand with your fist
  • Cross (♣) = pinch back of hand

This happens until the named card of the loser comes. Then a new round begins.

Variations

  • every player, not just the winner, punishes the loser
  • you take as many quartets out of a deck of cards as the number of players taking part (with four players, 16 cards). These cards are shuffled and dealt evenly. Now, as in normal play, one card is simply passed on until someone has four cards with the same numerical value in hand.
  • if the loser pulls his hand away from the punishment, he must accept the entire pile as punishment
  • the numerical values ​​on the cards drawn during the punishment determine the intensity of the punishments