Scharwenzel

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Scharwenzel is a Fehmarn card game for four, six or eight people that form two parties ("your" and "we"). In this game the tricks are counted. The party that gets more tricks in a round receives a certain number of points. The exact rules for awarding points can differ from village to village. The aim of the game is to collect as many threads as possible that you get for certain successes:

  • You get a thread when you collect 24 points.
  • You get a thread with a tick if you take all the stitches in a game ("Tout". If this is the case, there is a schnapps for all players).
  • You get two threads with a tick if you say a tout before playing the first card.
  • You get two (or four if the tout is announced) for a tossed toout, i.e. H. the opposing party was unsuccessful in attempting to play on toout.
  • You get two threads with a roof over it ("Petersdorfer") if the opposing party does not get any points while you have collected 24 points yourself.

Since you cannot tell your fellow players which cards you have, you always sit between two players from the opposing party. However, for example, you can use expressions such as "Everyone has a heart" to indicate that the other player should play hearts.

Meanwhile, Scharwenzel tournaments are also taking place in which more than two parties compete against each other. Since 2012, the winner of a tournament has been determined from 26 to 30 teams at the beginning of November.

Scharwenzel is probably related to the Schafkopf game. The Danish variant Skærvindsel and the Faroese variant Sjevinsel are very similar to the Fehmarnscharwenzel. Sometimes similar terms are also used, e.g. B. The matadors at Skærvindsel are called Matadorer and at Sjevinsel Makadorer.

Height of the cards

Order of trumps : Cross - Dame > trump Seven > Pik -Dame> Cross Bube > Pik-Jack> Heart -Bube> Karo -Bube> trump ace > trump king ,> (Trumpf-Dame)> Trump Ten > Trump Nine> Trump Eight> (Trump Six)

The trump queens are only taken into account in the case of hearts and diamonds, since the queens of clubs and spades are "Olsch" and "Basta" (see below).

The trump six is ​​only taken into account in a hexagonal game, since with four or eight players there are only 32 cards in the game.

Expressions

  • "Basta" - the queen of spades, the third highest playing card
  • "better" - a game is announced in clubs
  • "Bock" - a game ends in a draw
  • in "real" - a game is played in clubs
  • "Macker" - the teammates of their own party
  • "Matadors" - the highest cards. For example, if a party has the three highest cards, it receives three additional points for the three matadors
  • "Nillje" - the seven trumps, the second highest playing card
  • "Petersdorfer" - A round (up to 24 points) comes to an end without the losing party having even scored a point. Allegedly, this name goes back to the fact that the Petersdorfers played Scharwenzel particularly well and you would have to do an apprenticeship with them if you didn't get a single point in a game round.
  • "Olsch" - the queen of clubs, the highest playing card
  • "Spedilje" - also a name for the lady of the cross
  • "Tout" - one party takes all the tricks in a game

literature

  • Detlef, Annakatrin (2002), We celebrate happy festivals, 4, Nördlingen: F. Steinmeier, ISBN 3-9802267-6-X
  • McLeod, John (2006), "Playing the Game: Scharwenzel," The Playing-Card, 35 (2): 127-130
  • Parlett, David (1990), A History of Card Games, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-282905-X