Napoleon (card game)
Napoleon , also known as Nap for short , is a card game that in all likelihood originated from the whist . Whether it was after Napoleon I or Napoleon III. remains unclear, but the names of the stimulus levels suggest the former.
Game flow
It is played with 52 French cards . Each of the two to a maximum of seven players receives five cards individually. The ace is the highest card, followed by the king, the lowest card is the two. Everyone now checks their hand and names, in a bidding round, the highest game they can play.
The stimulus levels are as follows:
- Two (two basic stakes, two tricks to be taken)
- Three (triple basic bet, three tricks to be taken)
- Misery (triple basic bet, no trick to be taken)
- Four (four times the basic bet, four stitches are to be taken)
- Nap (five times the basic bet, five stitches are to be made)
- Wellington (ten basic bet, five tricks to be taken)
- Blücher (twenty basic bet, five tricks to be taken)
The player with the highest bid comes out. A special feature is that he automatically determines the trump suit with his opening card. There is no trump card in Misere. Wellington is harder to play than Nap as you have to start with the smallest trump. In the case of Blücher, the trump suit must be mentioned verbally, since the first card played must be the lowest wrong suit card.
You have to show your colors, but there is no compulsion to trump or trick . The successful declarer receives the value of the bid from all other players; in the event of a loss, he pays each opponent this value.
variants
A joker can be added to the game as the ultimate trump card. Even in the misery that is actually trump-free, it remains the only trump card in the game.
reception
In Jack London's " The Sea Wolf " Wolf Larsen wins the cook Mugridge at Nap the total amount of money that this Humphrey van Weyden has been stolen.
"" So, you can play nap ! " said Wolf Larsen happily. «I should have guessed that an Englishman would know the game. I learned it myself on English ships. ""