Tippen

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• To the former British carmaker see Frank Tap & Sons.

Tap, trefoil or pinching (see here) is the fiddling like gambling cards, which was formerly widespread in Germany and the countries of Austria -Hungary.

Other names of the game are Labet (from French la bête ), throbbing - not to be confused with the eponymous ancestor of the poker game (see Poch ) - and Kleinpréférence (see Préférence ).

A typing game is similar, based in the UK and the USA Loo.

The basic rules

Touch is played by three to six people with 32, even more participants with 52 cards.

The respective dealer places three tokens as a root in the pot and assigns each player individually three leaves. The next card is pitched open and determines the trump suit.

If only the root in the pot, so all players must call, and who made ​​no tricks, pays Bête as the amount that is in the pot.

However, if more than just the root in the pot, the player may, which does not count towards a stitch fit; has anyone but good cards, he says, "I 'll go with " or taps his fingers on the table.

You have to use or trump color.

For every stitch you get a third of the cash contents. Who goes along and does not sting, pays as much as the Beast in the pot is.

Control variants

Like most card games will be played Tap with many additional sets of rules; in particular given the opportunity to swap cards frequently as the fiddling.