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Klammern
Klammern is an ace–ten card game and variant of Jass, which is particularly widespread in the Alemannic region. It is played mainly in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and in parts of southern Germany and Alsace. But the game is also finding more and more fans in the north-west of Germany, mainly in North Rhine-Westphalia. In Hamburg the game goes under the name Klapperjazz or Klapperjass and was initially played mainly by stevedores for "nen Heiermann", a 5 Mark piece. A die was used to keep score. In other parts of North Germany it is called Klappern or Klapper-Jas and was popular in the 1950s and 60s in pubs and bars and also among lorry drivers as they waited, for example, for customs clearance at Hamburg's free port.
Klapperjass may be over a century old as the word is recorded in an Alsatian dictionary in 1899 as a card game and as a children's word for a beating or spanking, from which verklapperjassen, "to beat at cards" or "to beat by cheating", is derived. No rules are given.
In Klammern, 4 players play in two teams of 4 using a 32-card French-suited pack. The partners sit opposite each other. But it is also possible for just two or three to play with each player playing alone. These variants are often practised in the Berlin area.
The aim of the game is to score as many points as possible.
Cards have the usual ace–ten values and ranking with the exception of two special trumps: the trump jack, called Jappa (also called Jass in NRW and Hamburg), which is the highest trump, and the trump 9 or Mie (pronounced "Mia"), which is the second highest trump. Jappa is worth 20 points and Mie 14 points. The card values are:
The ranking of the cards in the trump suit in descending order is: Jappa (J) > Mie (9) > A > 10 > K > Q > 9 > 8 > 7. In the side suits the order is: A > 10 > K > Q > J > 9 > 8 > 7.
The cards are always dealt in packets of 3-2-3. The middle of the dealer's last 3 cards is revealed as the proposed trump suit.
Forehand (the player to the dealer's left) may play the suit of the upcard by accepting with the words "I'm going in" (ich gehe rein) or may reject the suit. Then it is the turn of the next player to the left, and so on. Thus, the players are always asked in clockwise order whether they want to accept the revealed suit as trumps or not.
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Klammern
Klammern is an ace–ten card game and variant of Jass, which is particularly widespread in the Alemannic region. It is played mainly in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and in parts of southern Germany and Alsace. But the game is also finding more and more fans in the north-west of Germany, mainly in North Rhine-Westphalia. In Hamburg the game goes under the name Klapperjazz or Klapperjass and was initially played mainly by stevedores for "nen Heiermann", a 5 Mark piece. A die was used to keep score. In other parts of North Germany it is called Klappern or Klapper-Jas and was popular in the 1950s and 60s in pubs and bars and also among lorry drivers as they waited, for example, for customs clearance at Hamburg's free port.
Klapperjass may be over a century old as the word is recorded in an Alsatian dictionary in 1899 as a card game and as a children's word for a beating or spanking, from which verklapperjassen, "to beat at cards" or "to beat by cheating", is derived. No rules are given.
In Klammern, 4 players play in two teams of 4 using a 32-card French-suited pack. The partners sit opposite each other. But it is also possible for just two or three to play with each player playing alone. These variants are often practised in the Berlin area.
The aim of the game is to score as many points as possible.
Cards have the usual ace–ten values and ranking with the exception of two special trumps: the trump jack, called Jappa (also called Jass in NRW and Hamburg), which is the highest trump, and the trump 9 or Mie (pronounced "Mia"), which is the second highest trump. Jappa is worth 20 points and Mie 14 points. The card values are:
The ranking of the cards in the trump suit in descending order is: Jappa (J) > Mie (9) > A > 10 > K > Q > 9 > 8 > 7. In the side suits the order is: A > 10 > K > Q > J > 9 > 8 > 7.
The cards are always dealt in packets of 3-2-3. The middle of the dealer's last 3 cards is revealed as the proposed trump suit.
Forehand (the player to the dealer's left) may play the suit of the upcard by accepting with the words "I'm going in" (ich gehe rein) or may reject the suit. Then it is the turn of the next player to the left, and so on. Thus, the players are always asked in clockwise order whether they want to accept the revealed suit as trumps or not.