Calling Nineteen
Nineteen calls is a card game from the Tarock family for four players with 54 cards. Under the name Taroky, it is the national tarot variant of the Czech Republic and Slovakia , but - with certain variations - it is also played in parts of the Austrian federal states of Upper Austria , Lower Austria and Styria as well as in Poland south of the Vistula .
Brief description
As a tarot game includes nine of ten calls in addition to the color map 22 permanent assets, which also Tarot are called and with Roman numerals are numbered. The name Nineteen Calling refers to the fact that in game announcements with a partner - in which two players against the other two games - the player who is holding Tarock XIX is “called” to determine the partner. This corresponds to the procedure in Zwanzigerufen , a simpler tarot game with 40 cards.
Otherwise, however, Nineteen Calling is more similar to the older and more widespread King Calling . With this it shares the deck of cards and the way in which it is divided: There are 12 cards for each of the four players, 2 × 3 cards are placed as a talon in the middle of the table. Therefore, a reciprocal fertilization process took place between the two variants, with an exchange of game and bonus announcements.
Significant differences to Königruf
- As the name suggests, a playing partner in the caller games is not determined by the announcement of a king, but by Tarock XIX.
- In games in which the majority of points is to be achieved, gradations are made: the more card points in the tricks, the more game points are assigned to the winning side.
- Bonuses from the hand , which reveal information about your own hand and are hardly played any more, are mandatory in the case of calls of the nineteen. The player receives points for this, but forgetting about them means renonce .