Dreierles is a three-handed, trick-taking Tarot card game that is popular in the German region of central Baden. It is very old and appears to be a south German cousin of Tapp Tarock, the oldest known 54-card Tarot game. Dreierles is played with Cego cards - the only surviving German Tarot cards still produced. German soldiers fighting with Napoleon almost certainly introduced a Spanish modification to Dreierles that produced Baden's national game of Cego. Its relative simplicity makes it a good introduction to games of the central European Tarot family, usually called Tarock games.
The honour trumps in a Cego deck.
Adler Cego cards: the top 4 trumps
Black Forest Cego cards: the top 4 trumps
The Pfeife
Tarot games are card games played with tarot packs designed for card play and which have a permanent trump suit alongside the usual four card suits. The games and packs which English-speakers call by the French name tarot are called tarocchi in the original Italian, Tarock in German and similar words in other languages.
The Trull, the highest-valued trumps in Central European Tarock games
Hungarian statesmen playing tarokk in 1895, the preferred card game of the pre-communist era.
French Tarot being played.
Industrie und Glück trumps