Kaiserspiel

Kaiserspiel

The card deck for Kaiserspiel
Origin	Switzerland
Type	Trick-taking
Players	2, 4, 6
Cards	40 or 48
Deck	Swiss deck (Kaiserspiel variant)
Play	Anticlockwise
Related games
Karnöffel • Knüffeln • Watten
One chosen suit

Kaiserspiel, also called Kaisern or Cheisärä, is a card game, usually for 4 or 6 players, that is played in parts of Switzerland using a variant of the standard pack of Swiss playing cards with 40 or 48 cards. It is a descendant of Karnöffel, one of the oldest card games known. It is sometimes misleadingly called Kaiserjass, although it has nothing to do with the Jass family of games popular in Switzerland.

Cards

The Kaiserspiel pack comprises four suits: Shields, Flowers, Bells and Acorns, each of ten cards ranked: King, Ober, Unter, Banner, (9), (8), 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 (Deuce). The four Banners are normally part of the trump suit and are known as Kaisers, hence the name of the game. In the 40-card variants, the 8s and 9s are removed. There are no aces.

The game

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Kaiserspiel is a trick-taking game.

References

External links

• Matthew Macfadyen and Kirsty Healey, rev. John McLeod. Kaiserspiel at www.pagat.com. Retrieved 4 Jun 2018.