Mauscheln (card game)
Mauscheln , also known as Maus or Vierblatt , is a card game of chance similar to typing , which was widespread in Germany and the countries of the former Austria-Hungary .
The name Mauscheln means something like "(secret) speaking". According to Meyer's Konversationslexikon from 1885 to 1892, the word Mauschel is derived from the Hebrew Moscheh " Moses ", in Ashkenazi pronunciation Mausche, Mousche, and was a mock name for Jews; Mauscheln in older German meant something like "jewish, haggle". Today is mauscheln to interchangeably intrigue, fiddle, cheat used.
Other names in the game are Polish bank (see. But here ) or Panczok even scrape , tackling or Fresh Four .
Basic rules
Number of players and game material
Mauscheln is played like typing by three to six people with 32 cards, with even more participants with 52 cards.
Card distribution
The respective dealer places four tokens as a trunk in the cash register and deals two cards to each player. The next card is opened face up and determines the trump suit , then each player receives two more cards.
Game announcement and start of the game
Now the player to the dealer's left declares whether he wants to swap (“play, take it on”), i. i.e., he undertakes to take at least two tricks , or he says continue; in this case, his left neighbor has the word - etc.
If nobody wants to play, the cards are thrown together, the next player pays four tokens into the cashier and gives the cards for the next game.
If a participant has declared that he wants to play, the other players can either pass or call .
If all other participants fold, the chopper takes the pot - with no actual game; but if at least one participant calls, these players and the cheater may discard one or more (including all four) cards face down and exchange them for new cards from the talon . Only one swap is permitted. All players are served, the plays wheeler from the first trick.
Addition rules
You have to use color or trump.
Game accounting
Settlement takes place at the end of the game:
- For every trick won you receive a quarter of the cash register.
- Whoever calls and does not take a trick pays as much as bête into the till than there is in the pot; likewise the cheater, if he only succeeds in winning one trick.
- Remains wheeler stichlos, he pays twice the cash content.
Rule variants
Like most card games, Mauscheln is played with many additional rule variants. Variations concern u. a .:
- the use of the weli or the six of diamonds as the 33rd card as a constant second highest trump and
- Special features when taking off and sharing.
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literature
- Claus D. Grupp: Games of chance with balls, dice and cards, Falken Verlag, Wiesbaden 1976.
- Claus D. Grupp: Card games in families and friends. Revised and redesigned edition. Original edition. Falken, Niedernhausen / Ts. 1996/1997, ISBN 3-635-60061-X
- David Parlett : The Oxford Dictionary of Card Games, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1992.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vocabulary Uni Leipzig ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
