Sleepyhead (card game)
Sleepyhead , Hau Ruck , butcher , donkey or fire is a card game that requires quick reactions.
In the English-speaking world, the game is known under the names Pig , Donkey and Spoons . According to Morehead, Frey and Mott-Smith, this is a modern adaptation of an older game for four people called Vive l'amour , in which you had to try to collect all thirteen cards of one color .
The similar game Ox, lie down! , in which you have to collect eight cards of the same suit, is related to the English game My Ship Sails . David Parlett attributes the latter to a game of chance from the 17th century called My Sow Pigg'd - the roots of this game are therefore likely to be several hundred years old.
Sleepyheads are mainly played by children, but also as a party or hut game by adults.
The rules
Depending on the number of players, the same number of quartets (sets of four) are taken from a pack of playing cards . H. played with twenty cards.
The cards are now shuffled and distributed to the players.
Furthermore, you put small objects, e.g. B. Queen stones, in the middle of the table - always one less than a player to participate.
The players pick up their cards trying to form a complete quartet. At the command “ Hau ”, each player places a card that he does not need face down on the table, pushes this card on to his left neighbor on “ Jerk ” and picks up the card pushed by his right neighbor.
As soon as a player has a complete quartet, he places it face up on the table and takes a stone from the middle of the table. The other players now also try to grab a stone each - regardless of whether they own a quartet or not.
Those who do not get a stone are sleepyheaded and eliminated. The next round is played among the remaining players, of course a quartet is removed from the deck of cards and a stone is removed from the middle of the table.
The last player left is the winner.
variants
Instead of playing a single winner, in some variants the punishment of the loser, the sleepyhead , prevails .
Related games
Spoons
In the English-speaking world, the game is known as Spoons , and spoons are used instead of game pieces.
Pig
In Pig , no objects are placed in the middle, instead each player has to put a finger to his nose instead of catching an object. The last one to react is Pig .
My Ship Sails
The form of exchanging playing cards at the same time can also be found with My Ship Sails , which is played with a package of 52 cards. Each player receives seven cards, then cards are exchanged as described above.
If you are the first to own seven cards of one color , you shout “ My ship sails! “And wins.
In this type of game, in contrast to the aforementioned variants, there is a single winner in every single game, but no single loser.
Vive l'amour
Vive l'amour is basically identical to My Ship Sails and Ochse, lie down! You play with four players, each player receives thirteen cards and tries to get a complete suit.
See also
literature
- Rulebook from Piatnik , Vienna, undated
- Friedrich Anton: Encyclopedia of Games , Leipzig, 1889
- The United States Playing Card Company, Joli Quentin Kansil, Editor: Official Rules of Card Games , 90th Edition, 2004
- Albert H. Morehead Richard L. Frey, Geoffrey Mott-Smith: The New Complete Hoyle Revised Doubleday, New York, 1991
- Albert H. Morehead, Geoffrey Mott-Smith: Hoyle's Rules of Games 2nd revised edition. A Signet Book, 1983
- David Parlett : Oxford Dictionary of Card Games , Oxford University Press Oxford New York 1992/96
- David Parlett: The Oxford Guide to Card Games Oxford University Press Oxford New York 1990
- Card games for young and old, for beginners and advanced , Cologne: book u. Zeit Verlag, 1973, page 113