 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 called Kaisern or Cheisärä, is a card game, usually for 4 or 6 players, that is played in parts of Switzerland using a variant of the standard Swiss playing cards with 40 or 48 cards. It is a descendant of Karnöffel, one of the oldest card games known.[1] It is sometimes misleadingly called Kaiserjass, although it has nothing to do with the Jass family of games that are popular in Switzerland.
- ^ Kaiserspiel at www.pagat.com. Retrieved 4 Jun 2018.