OPTI Card Game - Jass Piquet

This Jass game consisting of 36 cards with a blue pattern will be very popular and contains larger numbers than the original version. This card game is the French version and the game is packed in a cardboard or plastic case, your choice.

Size: 57x89mm

TO PLAY JASS

A 36-card deck

4 players

GAME PLAY:

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

The player who has the lead then plays their first card, the one to their 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. They announce that they cannot follow if they don't have one and play a different card. A player can trump, in other words play a trump suit card even though the player who had the lead started with another suit.

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

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 their hand. The player who played the highest trump wins the trick for their team.

They collect it and the points it contains are immediately awarded to the team. They take the lead and play the first card of the next trick. When players have no more cards, the round ends. The team winning the last trick gets 5 additional points (Cinq de der). The player to the right of the current dealer becomes the new dealer for the next round.

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

Jass Point Counting

The scorecard 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 made a mistake, their opponent wins the game.