Skat (card game)
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Skat, historically Scat, is a three-player trick-taking card game of the ace–ten family, devised around 1810 in Altenburg in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. It is the national game of Germany and,
Skat players in an Erfurt park in 1967
A player puts the Skat down on the table
Doppelkopf
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Doppelkopf, sometimes abbreviated to Doko, is a trick-taking card game for four players.
Skat (card game)
…game of the ace–ten family, devised around 1810 in Altenburg in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. It is the national game of Germany and, along with Doppelkopf, it is the most popular card game in Germany and Silesia and one of the most popular in the rest of Poland. A variant of 19th-century Skat was once…
A 40-card Doppelkopf pack (i.e., without nines).
German-suited (Altenburg) Doppelkopf pack (without blanks)
A "Doppelkopf" trick, two tens and two aces
Doppelkopf tournament under way