Grosstarock (German: Großtarock) is an old three-handed card game of the Tarock family played with a full 78-card Tarot pack. It was probably introduced...
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Austria Three players, 54 cards Grosstarock (Viennese): 3 players, modern Viennese game unrelated to 78-card Grosstarock Illustrated Tarock: elaboration...
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plays tarot games, Danish Tarok being a derivative of historical German Grosstarock. The game of Cego has grown in popularity again in the south German region...
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1980). Several of these games are attempts to play the Tarot game of Grosstarock with standard French- or German-suited cards. French (4 x AKQJT9876)...
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Viennese Grosstarock is a modern, three-player Austrian card game of the Tarock family that emerged in Vienna during the 1950s and 1960s. The game died...
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player holding the Magician would want to use it only judiciously. In Grosstarock games, of which Danish tarok is the last survivor, the Fool can take...
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following games are played with such packs: Cego Danish Tarok French tarot Grosstarock Hungarian Tarock Husarln Illustrated Tarock Königrufen Kosakeln Minchiate...
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Thuringia, Germany. Skat is based on the three-player Tarot game of Grosstarock and the four-player game of Schafkopf (forerunner of American Sheepshead)...
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Tarock. German Tarok originated in an attempt to play the Tarot game of Grosstarock with a standard 36-card German-suited pack instead of Tarot cards, but...
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games that originate from an attempt to play the tarot card game of Grosstarock with non-tarot cards. Frog is an American derivative of the south German...
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allgemeines Spielbuch and incorporates many of the declarations found in Grosstarock, a form of classical tarot. These included "Three Matadors" (the combination...
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may have originally comprised 78 cards and been used for games such as Grosstarock, but more recently it has only been produced in a shortened form used...
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Glück inscription. A 78-card version by Piatnik was once made to play Grosstarock (No. 1938); it was also adapted for the Austrian game of Droggn, although...
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German pack. Another possibility is that it was adapted from the 78-card Grosstarock or Taroc l'Hombre game as the ratio of trumps to non-trumps is almost...
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Austria and is one of a family of games derived from the Tarot game of Grosstarock by adapting its rules to a regular, shortened pack of 36 cards. The ranking...
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definitive book on Danish Tarok, an intricate card game related to German Grosstarock that is still played in Denmark today. The book contains good instructions...
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setting aside two cards (the skat) was taken from the Tarot game of Grosstarock. Doppelkopf, however, is not one of Skat's precursors but a 19th century...
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(Deutschtarok) which arose in the desire to play the tarot card game of Grosstarock with German-suited, non-tarot cards. German Tarok appeared in the late...
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in German Tarok which was an attempt to play the German tarot game of Grosstarock with an ordinary 36-card German-suited pack. German Tarok emerged in...
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is "quite a fine game", better than Tapp albeit further removed from Grosstarock. Nevertheless, some simpler variants appear to have survived, according...
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Pforzheim in Baden alongside Sixty-Six, Skat, Tapp and Tarrock (possibly Grosstarock or Dreierles). In 1907 there were both 42- and 54-card versions and it...
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