| A trick-taking game of the Austrian Tarock family. | |
 A hand of Tarock cards | |
| Origin | Austria |
|---|---|
| Type | Trick-taking |
| Players | 4 |
| Cards | 54 |
| Deck | Industrie und Glück |
| Rank (high→low) | Tarocks: Sküs, XXI-I ♠♣: K Q C J 10 - 7 ♥♦: K Q C J 1-4 |
| Play | Anticlockwise |
| Related games | |
| Königrufen • Tapp Tarock • Zwanzigerrufen | |
Neunzehnerrufen (German: "Call the Nineteen") is an Austrian card game of the Tarock (tarot) family for four players.[1] Under the name Taroky or Czech Taroky it is the national Tarock variant of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but - with certain variations – is also played in parts of the Austrian states of Upper Austria, Lower Austria and the Styria as well as in Poland south of the River Vistula.[1]
Despite its name, the game is less related to Zwanzigerrufen than to Königrufen.[2] However, it differs from the latter in the number and way the packets are dealt: 12 cards to each of the four players, 2 × 3 cards go, as a talon into the middle of the table. Thus there has been and is a cross-fertilization process between the two variants, with the exchange of game and bonus declarations.
- ^ a b Mayr & Sedlaczek 2001, pp. 153–170.
- ^ Dummett 1980, p. 526.