Matzlfangen ("catching tens") is a traditional point-trick, card game for 4 players that originated in the Bavarian province of Upper Palatinate over 200 years ago and spread to Austria. It is still played in a few places today. The game is named after the ten or Matzl, which plays a key role.

Matzlfangen is an old Bavarian card game, being recorded as early as 1809 as Mätzelfangen, a game that was played "only in the Upper Palatinate and usually in the countryside." In 1826 it was reported in the Bavarian Courier being played at home around the table by "master craftsmen, journeymen and apprentices", along with Solo, Schafkopf, Kreuzmariage, Grasobern and others. In 1827 we read that Mätz is a contemptuous word for "woman" and, again, that Mätzlein fangen is a card game popular in the Upper Palatinate. Grimm (1885), however, records that Metzlein or Mätzlein is simply a maiden and that "around Straubing it is term of endearment for a girl."

It is named after the ten, which is known colloquially as the Matzl or Matz ("hussy"). It is a pub game that still belongs to the village culture of Austria, having been brought to Hackenbuch in Upper Austria by peat cutters around a century ago and spread outwards from there to the northern Flachgau. For around 100 years it has been Hackenbuch's "standard game". It may be ancestral to catch the ten which is mentioned as early as 1779.

The rules that follow are based on Daglinger.

Matzlfangen is a four-hand game, played with a pack of 32 Double German cards. The aim of the game is to score more than 65 points.

The cards rank and score as follows:

Winning the last trick scores 10 points, bringing the total points available to 130, hence 66 or more are required to win the game.

Dealing and play are clockwise. The dealer deals eight cards each in batches of four. The last card dealt (to the dealer) is flipped to determine the trump suit. If the player to the dealer's right knocks on the pack of cards, all eight cards to each player are distributed in one batch.