No sting
No stitch is a card game that is available in several regional variations and under different names such as B. Herzeln (but see here ), King Louis , Kunterbunt, Schwarze Sau , Fritz , Brumseln , Fünferspiel , Lieschen , Lizzy or also known as Pensionisteln .
In the most common variant, it is played by four people with a card game of 4 times 8 cards (ace, king, upper / queen, lower / jack, tens, nines, eight, sevens). The special thing about this game are its five different rounds. In the first four it's a trick play , but in the last it's similar to getting out of a penalty! a placement game. If you play for money, you pay into a pot in the trick rounds and the money you pay in in the last round. The word “pfennig” stands as a placeholder for an amount of money.
Rules of the game
The cards are in the order Ace, King, Upper / Queen, Under / Jack, Tens, Nines, Eights, and Sevens from top to bottom. The trick is always made by the highest value of the color played .
The stitch rounds
The player to the left of the dealer takes the first trick of a round. For the next stitches, the one who took the last stitch always comes out. Basically: color has to be served, there is no trump . That means: if you have at least one card in the suit led, you have to admit one.
- No trick : In the first round, the players try to take as few tricks as possible. Each stitch costs five pfennigs.
- No heart : In the second round you pay five pfennigs for each card of the color heart that you have in your trick. The number of stitches is not important here. Hearts are not a trump card, however, so you can add heart cards to a non-heart trick if you cannot use the suit.
- No waiter (no queen) : In the third round, both the hearts and the number of tricks are unimportant: here each waiter that you have in your trick costs ten pfennigs.
- No king of hearts : In the fourth round, it is only important who has Max, the king of hearts, known from Watten : He pays 40 pfennigs.
The laying round
In the last, fifth round , after the cards have been dealt , the player who has the acorn-under (in the French hand the jack of clubs) begins by placing it on the table. Then the game continues in turn. Each player can either lay on a card lying on the table or lay out another sub that can then be laid on again. If you cannot do either, you have to sit out. Whoever is the first to discard his last card receives one hundred pfennigs; the second gets fifty, the third ten, while the last gets nothing. The payout, the mode and whether at all is always a matter of a prior agreement.
variants
No penultimate stitch
One variant of the game consists of an additional 5th round in which the penultimate trick costs 40 pfennigs.
No first, last stitch
This variant works like the previous one, only that the first and the last trick cost 20 pfennigs each.
Black pig
In the variant known as the black sow, the queen of spades is scored instead of the king of hearts in the fourth round. Compare Hearts .
King Louis
In the variant known under King Louis , the first round is missing (no trick); the second round (no heart stitch) begins immediately.
March through
The march through is possible in the stitch rounds. One player must take all the tricks and then receive 50 pfennigs, the other players pay 30 pfennigs each.
Power, lightning or hardcore
In this game mode the first 4 game rounds are combined into one round. That means you pay per trick, per heart, per queen / waiter and for the king of hearts. For example, if you have taken the following trick: A
, O , 10 , K this costs 1 × tariff for the trick, 4 × tariff for hearts, 2 × tariff for upper hearts, 8 × tariff for the king of hearts.
Other variants
Variants exist for 3 to 6 players and for card games of 24 or 52 sheets.