Einwerfen

Einwerfen
Alternative namesZählspiel
TypePoint-trick
Players4 (2×2)
Cards32-card
DeckGerman
Rank (high→low)A K O U 10 9 8 7
Playclockwise

Einwerfen or Zählspiel is a German 8-card point-trick game for four players in two teams of two and using a 32-card German-suited pack. Its closest relative is the popular Portuguese game Sueca. Perhaps the most basic and typical representative of the ace–ten card games, this game was first described as early as 1811,[1] but may be considerably older.

  1. ^ Hammer (1811), pp. 251-278.