Schnalzen is an Austrian card game for 4 players and a member of the Rams group of games in which the key feature is that players may choose to drop out of the game if they believe their hand is not strong enough to take a minimum number of tricks. It is, broadly speaking, Ramsen with the Weli as the second-highest trump. Players are dealt 5 cards and may not exchange. The Weli is the second-highest trump and game is 20 points.

Schnalzen is played in the Austrian states of Salzburg, Carinthia, Burgenland and the Styria. It has also gained a following in Barwedel near Brunswick in Germany, having been brought there from Austria.

The following rules are based on the game as played in Großgmain in Salzburg state.

The aim of Schnalzen is to win tricks in order to be the first to get one's score from 20 down to zero.

Schnalzen is played with a Double German (William Tell) pack comprising 4 suits - Acorns, Leaves, Hearts and Bells - and 33 cards, ranking as follows: Sow (Deuce or Ace) > King > Ober > Unter > Ten > Nine > Eight > Seven, plus the 6, the Weli, which is always the second-highest trump card after the Trump Sow.

Schnalzen is usually played by 4 players who each start with a score of 20 (penalty) points ([Straf-]Punkte).

The dealer deals a packet of 3 cards to each player in turn, turns the next face up for trump and then deals another packet of 2 cards to each player.

If the trump is a Ten, everyone has to play (mitgehen).