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Skat features prominently in Günter Grass's novel The Tin Drum and leads a trail connecting the plot.
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The rules of skat are governed by The International Skat Players Association and in Germany by the Deutscher Skatverband which publishes the Skatordnung.
In Germany, hearts ( Herz / Rot ), bells ( Schellen ), leaves ( Grün ), and acorns ( Eichel ) became the standard suits and are still used in Eastern and Southeastern German decks today for Skat, Schafkopf, Doppelkopf, and other games.
The Grammy award-winning video for " Opposites Attract " featured an animated cat named MC Skat Kat.
Sheepshead or Sheephead is a trick-taking card game related to the Skat family of games.
Other examples include Belote and Skat.
In some countries piquet decks are commercially available because they are used for other, nowadays more popular games, such as Belote in France and Skat in Germany.
Skat is an early 19th century trick-taking card game devised in Germany.
The first text book on the rules of Skat was published in 1848 by a secondary school Professor called J. F. L. Hempel.
Nevertheless, the rules continued to differ by region until the first attempt to set them in order was made by a congress of Skat players on Saturday, 7 August 1886 in Altenburg, being the first official rules finally published in book form in 1888 by Theodor Thomas of Leipzig.
The current rules, followed by both the ISPA and the German Skat Federation, date from Jan. 1, 1999.
The very word Skat is a Tarok term deriving from the Italian word scarto, " scartare ", which means to discard or reject, and its derivative " scatola ", a box, or a place for safe-keeping.
Note: Because of the many variations in the rules of Skat, the rules below are necessarily general, although rules not found in official German tournament play are marked as such.
Skat is a game for exactly three players.
At the beginning of a hand each player is dealt ten cards, with the two remaining cards ( the so called Skat ) being put face down in the middle of the table.
He or she may peek into the hand of one other player ( if allowed to do so ) but never into the Skat.
It is not only determined by the 10 cards held, but also by the two-card Skat.
The Skat always belongs to the declarer, and if it contains certain high cards () this will change the hand value.
It is therefore not possible in general to determine the exact hand value before knowing the Skat.
# The Skat is not picked up by declarer ; this is called the Hand game.
The examples give a player's holding and the contents of the Skat ( which will be unknown to all players during the auction ) and how to derive that player's hand value.
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