&sq=&lang=&file=File:Skat_Trick_Jacks.svg) Typical Jack trick in Grand Skat, with the highest cards of the game laid out from left to right and front to back. | |
| Origin | Germany |
|---|---|
| Type | Point-trick |
| Players | 3 |
| Skills | Hand evaluation, counting, cooperation, bidding intelligence |
| Cards | 32 |
| Deck | French, German or Tournament-suited "Skat" pack |
| Rank (high→low) | J♣️ J♠️ J♥️ J♦️ (Grand Trump) J♣️ J♠️ J♥️ J♦️ A 10 K Q 9 8 7 (Side Trump) |
| Play | Clockwise |
| Playing time | 3–5 minutes per hand played |
| Chance | Low |
| Related games | |
| Schafkopf • Grosstarock | |
Skat (German pronunciation: [ˈskaːt][a]), historically Scat, is a three-player trick-taking card game of the ace–ten family, devised around 1810 in Altenburg in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. It is the national game of Germany[1] and, along with Doppelkopf, it is the most popular card game in Germany and Silesia and one of the most popular in the rest of Poland. A variant of 19th-century Skat was once popular in the US. John McLeod considers it one of the best and most interesting card games for three players,[1][2] and Kelbet described it as "the king of German card games."[3] The German Skat Association assess that it is played by around 25 million Germans – more than play football.
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- ^ a b Skat at www.pagat.com. Retrieved 3 Jun 2018.
- ^ Keller, Thomas and Sebastian Kupferschmid, "Automatic Bidding for the Game of Skat" in KI 2008: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 31st Annual German Conference on AI, Kaiserslautern: Springer, 2008, p. 96. ISBN 978-3-540-85844-7.
- ^ Skat: König des deutschen Kartenspiels at kelbet.de. Retrieved 23 Feb 2019.