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The 52 Qard Game Series · Reserve bench

Klaverjas

Choose the trump, score the roem, beat a hundred and sixty-two.

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Klaverjas on the W.F.A. deck, on black velvet under a brass lamp
Klaverjas · Netherlands

How to deal

Partners sit across the table. Deal eight cards each from the 32-card deck in bundles of three, two and three.

How to play

The player left of the dealer may choose the trump suit or pass; if all pass the choice comes round again. In trumps the Jack is highest, worth twenty, then the Nine, worth fourteen. You must follow suit, and when you cannot you must trump unless your partner holds the trick; you must also beat a trump already played if you can.

How you win

The side that chose trumps must score more than the other from the hundred and sixty-two points on the table, including ten for the last trick and any roem: three or four cards in sequence in one suit, or four of a kind, played to a single trick. Fall short and the defenders take all the points. Sixteen hands make a game.

W.F.A. deck setup for Klaverjas

Play without the four 1s, then strip 2 through 6: 32 cards, the 07 in as the lowest card.

Sixty seconds at the table

Klaverjas on the W.F.A. deck, on black velvet under a brass lampVideo · coming with the tableKlaverjas

The 52 Qard Game Series

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Klaverjas is played in The Qard Game Room, free, on the W.F.A. deck.

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