Your goal is to reach 66 points by capturing valuable cards in tricks, and making bonuses by announcing ("melden") marriages (matched pairs of kings and queens). A game is seven game points.
Schnopsn is played with a pack of 20 cards (10, J, Q, K, A). There is no specific ranking of suits, but at the beginning of each game, one of the undealt cards is turned up as trump (atout). As the name implies, the trump suit can take tricks of all other suits in that round.
The cards have following values:
Schnopsn is played with a pack of 20 cards (10, J, Q, K, A). There is no specific ranking of suits, but at the beginning of each game, one of the undealt cards is turned up as trump (atout). As the name implies, the trump suit can take tricks of all other suits in that round.
The cards have following values:
Ace/Deuce: 11
10: 10
King: 4
Queen/Ober: 3
Jack/Unter: 2