Cameroonian Skat

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Cameroonian Skat ( Camerun-Skat ) is a card - gambling for three or more players, which with the usual Skat only the name and the use of a package of 32 cards in common. The game is said to come from the former German colony of Cameroon .

The rule given below comes from Alban von Hahn's Book of Games from 1909.

Style of play

First, a banker is determined by lot ; each opponent is dealt three cards face up and places them in front of him. Now the banker draws the remaining cards face up from the talon one after the other . If the first card that is turned up corresponds in rank to a card of an opponent - the colors are irrelevant - the latter has to pay a stake to the banker. If the player even holds two cards of the same rank, he pays two bets and three bets with three cards of the same rank.

The same thing is now repeated as follows: After the second card has served, the player has to pay two bets to the banker in the event of a match - or, if he has two or three cards of the same rank, four or six bets.

Then the third card is served and players must now pay three bets per match.

After the third card is served, the game is reversed: with the fourth card the banker pays one bet per match, with the fifth card two bets and with the sixth card three.

Then the game is reversed: With the sixth, seventh and eighth card it is the players' turn to pay again; the following three of the bankers.

Are not only three cards per player issued at the beginning, but z. B. four, the player and banker alternate after each four cards opened in numbers.

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Later sources (Grupp, Schmidt-Spiele , Klee-Spiele ) give the style of play somewhat differently, namely as follows:

  • A player pays the single stake the first time they match. If he has to pay a second time, he pays two bets and the third time three bets to the banker.
  • If a triple rate has been paid, the game is reversed: Now the banker has to pay, double the stake the first time, three times the stake the second time and then four times. After Grupp 1975, after the banker wagered three times, the payment changes back to the player, who then pays single, double and triple again.
  • After this point it is the players' turn to make payments again. The round ends as soon as all cards have been drawn, after which the bank changes to the next player.

With this rule, however, it remains unclear what should happen in the case of multiple possession of cards in the rank of the opened card; but possibly - as is so often the case with historical games - this is due to an ambiguous tradition; the older representation in Alban von Hahn's book is therefore more likely to reflect the historical style of play.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Cameroonian Skat In: Claus D. Grupp: Card games. Falken-Verlag Erich Sicker, Wiesbaden 1975, ISBN 3-8068-2001-5 , p. 18.
  2. ↑ Alban von Hahn: Book of Games . (PDF;> 220 MB)
  3. ↑ Wording of the description. In: Alban von Hahn, Book of Games , p. 59 (Google Books)
  4. ↑ a b c The large collection of games . (PDF) Schmidt Spiele , p. 20 (Camerun-Skat); accessed on December 6, 2016
  5. ↑ Instructions from the Klee-Spiele publishing house , without a year