Bavaria's evening game — queens and jacks outrank everything.
The everyday card game of Bavaria, played in every pub in the region. Four players, and the partnerships change with every hand.
32 cards — seven up to ace in each suit, often in German suits of acorns, leaves, hearts and bells. Eight cards each.
Ace 11, ten 10, king 4, over 3, under 2, and the rest nothing. 120 points in the deck, and 61 wins.
All four overs (queens), then all four unders (jacks), then the whole of the hearts suit. Overs rank acorns, leaves, hearts, bells, and unders the same. That makes fourteen trumps, and hearts is not a plain suit at all.
Rufspiel, the partner game: you call an ace of a plain suit you do not hold, and whoever has it is your secret partner. They must not reveal it, and the called suit may only be led once. Wenz: only the unders are trump, and they run the same order. Solo: you name a suit that becomes trump beneath the overs and unders, and play alone.
A solo or wenz outranks a rufspiel in the bidding.
Eight tricks. Follow suit if you can; the trump collection counts as one suit for this purpose. Highest trump wins, otherwise the highest card of the suit led.
Settled in cents from a fixed tariff. The winning side collects a base amount, with extras for holding the opponents under 30 (schneider) or taking every trick (schwarz), and for a run of top trumps.