HIGHLIGHTS AMONG GAMES t FROM THE MUSEUM

TIP #68 HUGO KASTNER RECOMMENDS PLAYERS: Designer: unknown 4 Price: --- AGE: SCHWARZE KATZE Year: ca. 1880 10+ Publisher: --- TRICK CLASSIC IN A TEAM VERSION www.pagat.com/reverse/hearts.html ZEIT: www.usplayingcard.com/gamerules/hearts.html 45+ Dear reader! This from the 19th hand 3 cards to your left neighbor [Marked Century currently is enjoying a revival due with L on the pad]. Round B: You hand 3 ˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜ to the computer version (Hearts). And this cards to your right neighbor [R]. Round C: Taktics Info+ Chance is absolutely justified, because especially in 2 cards are handed by the better situated Our version of the rules offers rather large tac- the team version with four players, presented player to his opposite, who checks them tical liberties, when handing on cards, when avoiding tricks, when playing heart cards or here today, you can encounter the most un- and hands 2 cards back. [D]. Round D: Pot the Black Queen etc. believable surprises. You play so to say in two round [P]: The player in last place may de- Hugos EXPERT TIP Play with the 4-3-2-1 scoring: The player who levels at the same time, for yourself and for termine how many card from each player tops 100 pints first, scores 1 points, the one in your partner. The balance between the abil- are placed into a pot (between 0 and 4); 2nd place 2 points, the one in 3rd place 3 points ity to memorize and luck, between tactics then the cards of the partners are shuffled and the one with the lowest score 4 points. Then you add the scores of partners. TIEBREAK: 1) In and bluff, usually always remains in balance and dealt to the opposing players. AIM OF case that the game is tied after the 4-3-2-1 scor- until the last moments. THE GAME: Each trick which contains Heart ing, you play as many rounds as are necessary In the Anglo-Saxon culture many versions cards scores negative points, the amount is for each player to score at least one penalty point. If the game then is still tied, you end the of the game are known, all having tell-tale graded: Cards of values Heart-2 to Heart-9 game with this score. It often happens that the names like “Black Maria”, “Black Widow” or = 1 point, Heart-10 = 2 points, Heart-J = up to then worst player scores a bonus and falls below 101 points, which also annuls the tie. In “Black Lady”, always pointing the finger at 3 points, Heart-Q = 4 points, Heart-K = 5 case of a renewed topping of the critical score the “bad” . In Austria the points and Heart-A = 6 points (as negative a new tiebreak must be started. 2) If one of the “superstitious” name of “Black Cat” is widely points). The Spade-Q earns you 13 nega- players scores 150 penalty points his team has lost regardless of the partner’s score. 3) In re- used for the game. In Norway you find an- tive points. Therefore game yields a total verse, a team wins automatically, when one of other, individual way to count in “Spardam”. of 41 penalty points. The score in columns the partners falls to 75 penalty points due to No version is similar to the other, which of is noted for each individual player, also in a bonus. Hugos FLASHLIGHT course is true also for our description, which team play. GAME PLAY: The player left to Many players have developed a real passion for can only try to subjectively tie together the the dealer leads; all other players add the „Black Lady“ – especially in the team version. The participants in my card evenings are no best from the different versions. For game same suit, but need not trick (color coer- exception! historians it might be of interest to know cion, but not trick coercion). There is no PREVIEW: that Black Cat has developed from a game color. Whoever plays the highest HAPPY FAMILIES Elegant version: Bluff Happy Families that is nearly completely forgotten today, card in the suit led takes the trick and leads a “Gambling game” from the 17th Century for the next one. The first round, in which by the name of “Reversis”. Without exagger- you cannot play a negative card (Spade-Q ated euphoria we must call Black Cat alias or a Heart) is led by the player who holds recommended): See expert tip!  Black Lady an incredibly challenging way Club-2 (can be handed on as any other Comments to: [email protected] to pass the time with cards. [From: Kastner/ card). HEART CARDS: Heart cards may not Homepage: www.hugo-kastner.at Folkvord: Die große Humboldt-Enzyklopädie be played as first card in a trick until at least der Kartenspiele] Tip: In the Austrian Games one heard has been played to a trick by any Museum in Leopoldsdorf you might fall vic- player. Exception: A player has only hears tim to the passions of the “Black Lady”. in hand. Scoring: A game ends when a Website: www.spielen.at player tops a score of 100. But a player can Especially for fans of card games our oblig- also have bonus points deducted from his atory light shall light up the rulebook for score as follows: 1) 25 points, if he tricked the team version (4 players) of this hit: all negative cards; 2) 41 points, if he took CARDS: A poker deck of 52 cards, the rank- all tricks (in both cases no other penalty ing of the cards is A (high)-K-Q-J_10-9-…-2. or bonus points are scored in this round) DEAL: Each player is dealt 13 cards. 3) 20 points if he does not take any trick; ROUNDS: Alternately, 4 rounds are played, 4) 10 points if he only takes one trick and until one of the players has amassed a this trick does not hold any negative cards: negative score of 110 points. Round A: You Hearts or Spade-Q. TEAM VERSION (Highly IMPRESSUM Offenlegung nach dem Mediengesetz: Medieninhaber, Eigentümer, Verleger und Hersteller: Verein „Österreichisches Spiele Museum“, vertre- ten durch Obfrau Dipl.Ing. 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Icon explanation GABIS explanation on page 5 Solo Play Two Players Large Groups Recommended Minimum Age 35