Chummelies
Cheating or just cheating is a card game with simple rules. The point of the game is to break the rules unnoticed and cheat. The game is also known under the titles of cheating , swindling , Schmu , bullshit , shitting , lying , cheating or lying and cheating .
The Duden (dictionary of origin) sees the derivation of the word Schummeln (schommeln) presumably derived from an earlier meaning of the word for "hasty movements", such as those required for sleight of hand.
Rules of the game
A normal Skat or Rummy sheet without a joker is divided equally among all players. The number of players is unlimited, if there are more than five, 52 cards or two decks of cards are used if necessary.
The players pick up their cards and arrange them in hand. The game begins when any card is turned up by the first player and alternately this color or figure is 'served' face down by saying this color and placing a card on the first. Since the goal is to be the first to get rid of all cards, you have to cheat.
If a player suspects that this card has been 'illegally' discarded, i.e. it does not correspond to the current color, he calls out “cheat lies” or knocks on the table and the last card is revealed. If the player was correct in his guess, the cheater must pick up the entire stack. If he has made a mistake, the cards remain with him. All types of cheating are allowed, so several cards may be discarded. If a player is caught cheating, he must take the cards on the table into his own hand.
variants
- Instead of playing by color , it can also be agreed to discard the cards in the order of their values. This variant is very common. For the player who holds all cards of a value in play, this has the advantage that he knows exactly that the other players are lying and he can let a large pile run up before knocking. With this variant, it is easier to calculate when it is your turn to take which card and possibly knock beforehand in order to get back only a few cards, even if there was no cheating.
- The same card is always played in one turn and the number of cards can be freely chosen by each player. (Player 1: 2 six, Player 2: 4 six, Player 3: 3 six). Any player can say at any time that the cards were "cheated". To do this, the player knocks on the table or says "cheated!", "Schmu!" or “Fraud!” If he says that the cards have been cheated and they are, then the “cheater” who placed the wrong cards must take the entire stack of cards in hand. But if they are correct, the “plaintiff” has to pick up the whole pile.
If a player has four identical cards, he can discard them, but can also leave them in his hand for tactical reasons. In this case the player is finished even if he only has four of a kind left in his hand. The game is over as soon as only one player has cards left.
- When playing with a hand of 52 cards or 104 cards (2 × 52 cards), jokers (52 cards and three jokers or 104 cards and six jokers) are used. A joker counts as a correctly placed card. If you knock, the person who knocks must pick up the cards.
- If the cards are placed in the order of their values, the jokers can alternatively only count as a fixed value. The discarding order is usually ace, 2, 3, 4,…, queen, king, joker. With this variant, the risk of having to cheat is particularly high if the joker value is to be discarded, since when playing with 55/110 cards there are only 3/6 jokers, but 4/8 of the other card values.
- In order to give the game a more random course, some cards are set aside from the pile of cards before the game starts for the rest of the game. When playing with 104 or 110 cards, this can be 10–20 cards.
- Each player only receives a certain number of cards, the rest are placed face down on the table. When it is a player's turn, he can either discard and cheat in the process. However, if he is very concerned that he will be caught cheating, he can take the top card from the face-down deck instead of discarding a card. Alternatively, the hidden cards can also be laid out in a circle, in which case any card can be drawn from the circle instead of being laid down. The discarded cards are then usually placed in the center of the circle. In this variant, the game is also called "asshole" (not to be confused with the card game called asshole or beggar ).
- If a player only has one card left in hand, he must announce this. If he forgets this, he may not discard this card in the next round, but must draw a penalty card from the cards on the table.
See also
literature
- Card game -for young and old- beginners and advanced , (no author) Buch und Zeitverlag, Cologne 1973
- Ursula Stöhr: The senior playbook: 250 practical suggestions for group work . 6th edition. Juventa-Verlag, Weinheim; Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7799-2070-0 ( limited preview in the Google book search - description of a variant).