How To Play Königrufen Tarock for Beginners
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Learn Königrufen! A Tarock game from Austria which isn't as scary as it looks at first, and famously is a lot of fun even if played quite badly... Tips on how to get started, with the key rules explained, and pointers on places to play for free online like tarock.zackzack.at and onlinecardgames... to practice your skills.
One thing I forgot to explain - there's no particular endpoint to the game. You either agree beforehand how many hands to play, or just play under you get sick of it (which can lead to marathon 13-hour sessions). People in Austria often play for 10 cents a victory point too...
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There's a small group of people in my community that have become fascinated with learning and playing old Tarot games and your videos have been invaluable in clarifying the flow of many games and the some of the stickier rules. Thanks a million.
That's great to hear! Where are you located in the world?
Also - if you want to join the Trad Card Games Discord and talk Tarock with us, send me an email and I'll forward an invite. LearnTarotCardGames AT gmail.com
@@learntarotcardgames54 We are in eastern Nebraska and Western Iowa. I will check out the discord.
In Slovenia we deal the cards clockwise and always deal talon at the beginning, not at the end.
Yes... different game to Austrian Tarock. I will do a video on Slovenian Tarok one day also, I play on valat.si sometimes. Good game.
Sometimes people will deal talon un the midle. And btw solorufer (brez z partnerjem) doesent exsist
Hi therw.
I am not very good tarock player and also not very bad. But i come from Slovenia so there is a lot new things you told me. Slovenian tarock is same in principles and total different in details. I will learn this one and you are great helper. THANK YOU!❤
Now I play Königrufen on fhe app every single day!! YEAH!
Awesome. You're depth of knowledge is impressive.
Thanks mate! To be honest though, I'm no expert... Half my reason for making these videos is to deepen my knowledge :)
For me this version of tarock/tarot is much more interesting than the French tarot, because:
1) You can play in pairs what introduces excating facet into the game.
2) I see there is much more contracts possible than in French Tarot.
French tarot has one advantage for me: there is more cards in each hand/tricks.
I knew how to play tarick before watching the video. Yet i still rewatc it severak tines to learn the german terms so i can play online
Another great video!
You are wonderful
Very nice video! What happens when everyone passes? Are the cards re-dealt?
Hi there. If everyone else passes, Vorhand (the first player after the dealer) is forced to call a game. Often this will be a Trischaken (everyone plays to get the lowest possible points).
Here's another method of counting that may be more straightforward to understand (but perhaps more tedious in practice):
Kings, Sküs, XXI (Mond), and I (Pagat); 4 1/3 each,
Queens; 3 1/3 each,
Knights; 2 1/3 each,
Jacks; 1 1/3 each,
All others; 1/3 each.
So a King + 2 low cards = 5 points, three low cards = 1 point etc.
That works too. A third way is that Kings and Trull are 4, Queens 3, Knights 2 and Jacks 1. All other cards are zero BUT you get 1 point per trick won. That way is actually the original... and is the whole reason Tarot point-counting got so weird later on.
@@learntarotcardgames54 That's true, and in this context; Do they normally keep the fractions in Königrufen competitions and such nowadays? The Pagat page talks about rounding up and down but other places (and your videos) have fractions of a point.
@@trondsi They do round up and down - but mostly it only matters for calculating a win or loss (or maybe calculating Sack). So 35 1/3 is a loss because it rounds down to 35, but 35 2/3 is a win because it rounds up to 36 which is a majority. A friend of mine worked out situations where the different methods can yield different results, but I'd have to ask him for the details.
@@trondsi Oh actually - have you been playing on the Tarock App? On that, when you see the table at the end of a hand, you'll see "35-1" or "35-2" etc for your points. That's the shorthand for "35 and 1/3" or "35 and 2/3" etc.
@@learntarotcardgames54 Oh yes, I scratched my head about that at first, but then I realized what was going on :)
Thank you so much
Very interesting game! What games with a regular french deck has similar mechanics?
Thanks! Which mechanics in particular? There are a few games in Europe that were developed to use similar mechanics with a regular French deck, but they're not exactly the same.
@@learntarotcardgames54 mainly the hidden partnership!
@@JpSceadugenga Ah ok - yes, I can recommend a couple of games with the hidden partner mechanic. It occurs in a few different European traditional games, especially in Germany, which you can play with a regular non-Tarot deck, either with French or German suits. Try Schafkopf (also the American derivative Sheepshead) and also Doppelkopf. In Schafkopf, you call the holder of a particular Ace to be your secret partner. Doppelkopf (which uses a double deck) the people who hold the two Queens of Clubs are a secret partnership. Both are really fun games, there are good apps made by Isar Interactive where you can learn and practice against AI.
Is this the same as taroky?
Not exactly the same, but it's related. This is the Austrian version, then Taroky is usually the name for the Czech version. Same deck and same basic gameplay, but usually in Czech Taroky you call trump XIX to be your partner instead of a king. Bidding is a bit different too. I'll make a video on Czech taroky one day.
Waiting for my pack of cards to arrive by mail :) Question: the Pagat page lists this 2 p bonus : "Sküsfang; capture opponent's Sküs" How do you capture the Skus?
Ah - I didn't mention this in the video, as it's a really rare occurrence. Depending on rule-set, some people allow the "Kaiserstich", which means "Emperor's trick". Under this rule, if the Sküs, the 21 and the Pagat are all played to the same trick, the Pagat wins. Sometimes it's specifically only if they're played in the exact order 21, then Sküs, then Pagat.
I've seen it happen exactly once in an actual game. Unfortunately it was in a Trischaken, when you're trying to get as few points as possible, and it happened to me... so that's 15 points in one hit!!!
(note: I accidentally replied with my personal account instead of my channel one, then fixed it, if you're wondering about a "deleted reply" notification).
@@learntarotcardgames54 Ok thanks! Sounds like an exceptional instance, but I sort of like that rule. I could definitely imagine all those three being played in the last trick for instance.
@@trondsi yeah, it's a fun rule :)
@@learntarotcardgames54 it is acctually more common than you would think. I even perpesfully lost 21, so my teammate could get skus with pagat
@@sniper7004 that's true - you can do a Kaiserstich in order to capture the Trull even when the opponents hold the Sküs, and save your Pagat at risk at the same time.
Hello. What is the tarot meaning of the se cards? I need to know.