Cego

Cego is a Tarot card game for three or four players played mainly in and around the Black Forest region of Germany. It was probably derived from the three-player Badenese game of Dreierles when soldiers deployed from the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars and, based on a Spanish game they had encountered, introduced Cego's distinctive feature: a concealed hand, or blind (Portuguese: cego). Cego has experienced a revival in recent years, being seen as part of the culture of the Black Forest and surrounding region. It has been called the national game of Baden and described as a "family classic".

Cego is a Tarot card game for three or four players played mainly in and around the Black Forest region of Germany. It was probably derived from the three-player Badenese game of Dreierles when soldiers deployed from the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars and, based on a Spanish game they had encountered, introduced Cego's distinctive feature: a concealed hand, or blind (Portuguese: cego). Cego has experienced a revival in recent years, being seen as part of the culture of the Black Forest and surrounding region. It has been called the national game of Baden and described as a "family classic". ==Pack== Cego traditionally uses a French-suited tarot pack of German design; two distinct patterns being still in use. In each case, the remaining cards (court and pip cards) are of the suits: Clubs, Spades, Hearts and Diamonds. In addition to the King, Queen, and Jack, there is also a Knight or Cavalier. Court cards cannot beat trumps, but are important because of their card value with respect to the total of points and their ability to win a suit trick. Pip cards have neither high card value nor are they very useful in winning tricks. Like the Austrian Industrie und Glück deck, the red pip cards are numbered from one to four (one being the highest card) and the black pip cards are numbered from ten to seven, with no corner indices. ==Rules== ===Deal=== The dealer deals the top 10 cards of the pack to the table, face down, as the blind, and then 11 cards to each player in turn and in a single packet. Example: K C J = 5 + 3 + 2 - 2 = 8 card points and Truck 14, Truck 11 and Truck 1 (Geiss) = 1 + 1 + 5 - 2 = 5 points. Two blanks (ordinary Trucks or pip cards) left over score 1 point; a single blank left over scores nothing. There are 70 card points in total and the declarer needs at least 36 to win; a tie on 35-35 is win for the defenders. In social rounds, each contract has a game value in (euro) cents. This is multiplied by a factor based on the declarer's score in card points; in the table this is negative if the declarer lost. Note that a Solo wins double and loses single; a Countersolo wins fourfold and loses double. The game values and factors are: Example: if Anna wins a One Pip game (game value 3¢) with 47 card points, she earns 3¢ x 3 = 9¢ from each defender i.e. a total of 27¢. If game points are used instead of money, Anna scores +27 and each defender -9 game points. If Anna loses the game with 27 card points, she pays each defender 3¢ x 2 = 6¢, paying out a total of 18¢. In soft score, she would deduct -18 games points and each defender would score +6. ==References== Boerschel, Ernst (1915). Josef Viktor von Scheffel und Emma Heim: eine Dichterliebe, mit Briefen und Erinnerungen. Hesse & Becker. Castelli, Ignaz Franz (1839). Freut euch des Lebens! Oder: Wollen wir lachen und fröhlich seyn ..., Volume 5. Vienna: A. Mausberger. Dummett, Sir Michael; McLeod, John (1975). "Cego". The Journal of the Playing-Card Society. 4 (1): 30–46. ISSN 0305-2133. Furr, Jerry Neill. "Cego" in Tarocchi: An introduction to the many games played with tarot cards. Philebus (2009). Gööck, Roland (1967). "Cego" in Freude am Kartenspiel, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh. pp. 126–128. Grupp, Claus D (1979) [1975]. "Cego" in Karten-spiele, Falken, Niederhausen. pp. 94–97. [Rev. edn. 2000] Grupp, Claus D (1986) [1976]. "Cego" in Schafkopf Doppelkopf, Falken, Niedernhausen. pp. 84–94. Grupp, Claus D (1994). "Cego" in Doppelkopf Schafkopf, Falken, Niedernhausen. pp. 82–92. Harder, Hans-Joachim (1987). Militärgeschichtliches Handbuch Baden-Württemberg. Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (publ.), Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, ISBN 3-17-009856-X. Hoffmann, Detlef (1972). Die Welt der Spielkarte. Callway. Hülsemann, Robert (1930). "Cego-Tarock" in Das Buch der Spiele für Familie und Gesellschaft. Leipzig: Hesse & Becker. pp. 205–206. Kastner, Hugo and Gerald Kador Folkvord (2005). "Cego (Badisches Tarock)" in Die große Humboldt-Enzyklopädie der Kartenspiele, Humboldt, Baden-Baden. pp. 226–230. Weißauer, Jürgen (2016). "Cego" in Modernes Skatspiel – Binokel, Cego und Vira. pp. 108–133. P.A. (1860). Historische Entwicklung der praktische Regeln des Zigo-Taroc-Spieles. Mannheim: J. Schneider. Pieper, Sven and Bärbel Schmidt (1994). "Cego" in Kartenspiele, Reclams Universalbibliothek, Vol. 4216, Stuttgart. pp. 98–106. Stolz, Aloys (1901). Geschichte der Stadt Pforzheim. Städt. Tagblatts. von Weech, Friedrich (1892). "Badische Truppen in Spanien 1810–1813" in Badische Neujahrsblätter, 2nd issue, 1892. pp. 3–59. "Das badische Nationalspiel Cego". Article by Blümle in the Wirtschaftliche Freiheit, 30 July 2018 (in German) Cego spielen ist Adrenalin pur – interview about Cego with actor Martin Wangler Cego-Lied – the "Cego Song" by Martin Wangler

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