Card Game - German Jass

This standard Jass game consisting of 36 cards with a blue pattern will be very popular. This card game is the German version and the game is packed in a cardboard or plastic case, your choice.

Size: 57x89mm

TO PLAY JASS

A deck of 36 cards

4 players

GAME PLAY:

Players form two teams of two. The dealer distributes 9 cards to each, three by three. The player who has the 7 of diamonds is the one who chooses trump on the first deal and starts the game. For other deals, it will be the player to the right of the dealer who chooses. Partners of the same team can both announce trump.

The player who has the lead then plays his first card, the one to his right does the same and so on. Be careful, players must play a card of the same suit as the one who has the lead. He announces that he cannot follow if he doesn't have one and plays a different card. A player can trump, in other words play a trump suit card while the player who had the lead started with another suit.

But if a player has already trumped, it is not allowed to undertrump, that is to say play a trump of lower value than the one previously played, unless he has no other cards.

A player who has the jack of trump is not obliged to play it, even if the base suit of the trick is trump and it's the only card of that suit remaining in his hand. The player who played the highest trump wins the trick for his team.

He collects it and the points it contains are immediately attributed to the team. He takes the lead and plays the first card of the following trick. When players have no more cards, the round ends. The team winning the last trick gets 5 additional points (Five de der). The player to the right of the current dealer becomes the new dealer for the following round.

At the end of each round, teams record their number of points in a very particular way.

Point counting in Jass

The scoresheet is divided into two parts, one for each team. Points are recorded on 3 lines, as follows: the top line consists of ticks each worth 100 points, the middle one

consists of crosses, a half-cross worth 50 points and a full cross 100 points, then the bottom line which consists of 20-point ticks. Units are noted on the right by adding or subtracting them. It's easier to record points after each announcement than at the end of the round. Players thus add their points progressively.

THE WINNER IS:

The game ends when a team has scored 1,000 points. Be careful if teammates announce 1,000 points but they were wrong, their opponent wins the game.