 The card deck for Kaiserspiel | |
| Origin | Switzerland |
|---|---|
| Type | Trick-taking |
| Players | 2, 4, 6 |
| Cards | 40 or 48 |
| Deck | Swiss deck (Kaiserspiel variant) |
| Play | Anticlockwise |
| Related games | |
| Karnöffel • Knüffeln • Watten | |
| One chosen suit | |
Kaiserspiel, also calledKaisern orCheisärä, is acard game, usually for 4 or 6 players, that is played in parts ofSwitzerland using a variant of the standard pack ofSwiss playing cards with 40 or 48 cards. It is a descendant ofKarnöffel, one of the oldestcard games known.[1] It is sometimes misleadingly calledKaiserjass, although it has nothing to do with theJass family of games popular in Switzerland.
The Kaiserspiel pack comprises four suits:Shields,Flowers,Bells andAcorns, each of ten cards ranked:King,Ober,Unter,Banner, (9), (8), 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 (Deuce). The four Banners are normally part of the trump suit and are known asKaisers, hence the name of the game. In the 40-card variants, the 8s and 9s are removed. There are noaces.[1]
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Kaiserspiel is atrick-taking game.
