An interesting Tarot game that demands a high level of skill | |
Origin | Austria |
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Type | Trick-taking |
Players | 3 |
Skills | Tactics, Strategy |
Cards | 54 |
Deck | Industrie und Glück |
Rank (high→low) | Trumps: Sküs, XXI-I ♣♠ K Q C J 10 9 8 7 ♥♦ K Q C J 1 2 3 4 |
Play | Anticlockwise |
Playing time | 20 min. |
Related games | |
Strohmandeln • Tapp Tarock • Illustrated Tarock • Point Tarock |
Dreiertarock is a 3-handed card game of the Austrian Tarock family. Although less popular than it once was, it is still played in Austria, especially in Carinthia,[1] and in neighboring Slovenia.[2] In 2013, it was one of five variants of Tarock game competed for in the International Piatnik Tarock Tournament (Internationales Piatnik-Tarockturnier) in Vienna.[3] For a long time, three-handed variants of Tarock were played alongside the four-handed games and were very popular everywhere in Austria. They have since fallen behind in popularity which "is a pity because they are interesting variants which demand a high level of skill".[1] They remain popular in Slovenia.[4][5]