Junk (card game)

Ramsch , also called Rams , Rammes and in East Germany formerly called "Mike", is a variant of the card games Skat and Schafkopf , as well as an independent card game with its own rules that is played between 2 and 6 people with German playing cards.

Ramsch is not an official part of the Schafkopf or Skat rules, so there are no binding rules for junk. Ramsch is usually played when all three or four players do not want to play, i.e. have worthless hands in their hand. The term junk also denotes worthless stuff. They divided junk in three different game types: simple junk, junk eyes and Schieberamsch .

When junk trump only the usual assets:

In the sheep's head game, the upper (women), lower (jack) and hearts trump and all other cards are ranked (A, 10, K, 9, ...).
In Skat, as in the Grand, only the boys trump . The same card sequence applies as in the Grand game (A, 10, K, Q, ...).

In contrast to the normal game, the goal is not to have scored the most points (counting points) in the end. Whoever gets the most eyes at the end of the game has lost the game. In Skat, these eyes are then written down as minus points (eye jam). Another possibility is to set a fixed amount as play value, as is usual with the Schafkopf. For example, simply losing 10 minus points counts; with a maiden 15 minus points and with two maiden 20 plus points. Of course, higher values can also be agreed.

If one of the players did not take a trick , he is considered a virgin and minus points of the loser or the amount to be paid are doubled. If, however, a player was able to take all the tricks (so both opponents remain virgins), he has made a march through . Very often it is determined that the player wins the junk in this case. Then the loss points are assigned to the other players or the winner receives 120 plus points.

literature

Junk . In: Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg (Ed.): Extended game rules book from Altenburg. Verlag Altenburger Spielkartenfabrik, Leipzig 1983, p. 163 ff.

Web links

Wiktionary: Ramsch - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Trash in the game of skat

supporting documents

↑ ^a ^b Rams . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 16, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p. 590 .
↑ Elke Austermühl (ed.): Frank Wedekind. Works: critical study edition . Vol. 1, Part 2: Commentary on the poems, lyrical fragments and drafts. Häusser-Media, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-89552-107-2 , p. 1963 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

[Meyers-1] Rams . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 16, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p. 590 .

[2] Elke Austermühl (ed.): Frank Wedekind. Works: critical study edition . Vol. 1, Part 2: Commentary on the poems, lyrical fragments and drafts. Häusser-Media, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-89552-107-2 , p. 1963 ( limited preview in the Google book search).