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Réunion (card game)

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card to determine the trump suit. Each player receives 10 cards in batches of 3–4–3. The dealer also takes up the remaining two cards including the turn-up card, then discards two cards face-down. The dealer must not discard any aces or bowers and must not discard more than one ten.
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leads any card to the first trick. Players must follow suit if possible. A player who cannot follow suit must play a trump if possible. The trick is won with the highest trump, or the highest card of the suit led. The winner of a trick leads to the next trick.
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Side payments occur in two cases. A player who loses the left bower in a trick pays one unit to the player who won the trick with the right bower. A player who does not win a single trick pays one unit each to the opponents, his score being recorded as a
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Players draw cards for seating and cut for the first deal, the player cutting the lowest card dealing first. Dealing and play are anticlockwise. After shuffling and cutting, the dealer turns up the
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The game occurs in early 19th century German game anthologies, where it was said to be popular in the western parts of Germany, and more specifically the area of the rivers
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A game consists of three successive deals, each player dealing once. Any player who scores (strictly) less than 150 points pays one unit to the winner, or two units if
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Dr. Johann Georg Krünitz’s ökonomisch-technologische Encyclopädie, oder allgemeines System der Staats-, Stadt-, Haus- und Landwirtschaft
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Neuestes Spiel-Taschenbuch, oder gründlicher Unterricht zur praktischen Erlernung der Karten-, Billard-, Schach- und anderer Spiele
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More recently the rules of Reunion have appeared in the book of card game rules by card manufacturers,
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Aces are high. The jack (or Unter) of trumps is elevated to the highest rank and known as the
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for three players which, despite its French name, appears to have originated in the central
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in the trump suit, there is a second round of bidding in which a player may bid a
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Two versions of Réunion are described by August Schneider in 1883 under the name
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in another suit which then becomes the trump suit. All four Jacks become
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i.e. a diagonal slash (/) if he scored no points or an underline (e.g.
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Spiel und Sport. I. Illustriertes Allgemeines Familien-Spielbuch
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Grimm, Georg (1840). Neuestes Spielbuch. Otto Wigand, Leipzig.
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with its two permanent top trumps, the Right and Left Bowers.
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and lowland areas to the east. It is a 10-card game of the
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Scores from a round of Reunion. Note that player M has a
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Ebnerschen Buchhandlung, Ulm. 14: 488:in his book on the card games of 197:and uses a 32-card French-suited 162:Features: Left and Right Bowers, 1409: 1408: 882: 638:Alvensleben, Ludwig von (1853), 41: 32: 668:Krünitz, Johann Georg (1833). 616:Neuestes Allgemeines Spielbuch 567:The Penguin Book of Card Games 551:Neuestes Allgemeines Spielbuch 1: 654:Georgens, Jan Daniel (1882), 569:, Penguin, London. Page 246. 209:, but is also reminiscent of 1435:Patience and solitaire games 359: 356: 353: 350: 347: 1444:Tarot and Tarock card games 1426:Non trick-taking card games 1085:Belle, Flux et Trente-et-Un 969:Gé, Point, Flux et Sequence 909:Belle, Flux et Trente-et-Un 707:. Strasbourg: G. 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Germany
Point-trick
Piquet
Skat pack
Bester Bube
Euchre
Skat
German
point-trick game
Rhineland
ace–ten family
piquet pack
Skat pack
Skat
Euchre
Rhine
Main
Lahn
Neckar
Napoleonic Wars
Alsace
ASS Altenburger
Forehand

matsch
Alsace
matadors
in toto

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