Let’s Play Klaverjassen

Sep 21
06:06

2010

Jan Kaas

Jan Kaas

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Klaverjassen is a four player game. The players partner up and sit across from each other. The game is played with piquet card which has 32 cards instead of our standard deck of 52 cards.

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 They have four suits,Let’s Play Klaverjassen Articles Hearts, Diamonds, Spades, and Clubs.  They also have the Kings, Queens, Jacks, Aces, and 7-10 cards.  Klaverjassen is played with 16 hands of card and dealt in batches of 3-2-3 or 4-4.  Dutch cards have indices in the corners and are indicated as follows: A or Aas stands for the Ace, H or Heer stands for the King, V or Vrouw stands for the queen and B or Boer  stands for the Jack, which is quiet unique in itself.

Object of the game for Klaverjassen and Online Klaverjassen:

A player with the highest score out of 16 hands wins the game. The player and Partner, the partner chooses the trump suit, must collect more than half of the points that are available to win. If playing in a competition game, the players rotate partners so that they play with a different partner every hand. That means they will have three different partners during game play of 16 hands.

Dealing for Klaverjassen and Online Klaverjassen:

The dealer will shuffle the card and deal them according to the sets being used. The cards are dealt in a set of three or sometimes dealt in two sets of four. If dealing in sets of three, the player will get three cards, then two, then another three. If the dealer chooses the sets of four, the players get one set of four cards and then another set of four cards.

Card values and points:

There will be a different trump suit for each hand. The person left to the dealer will be the one to pick the trump suit.  The value of the trump suits will be much different from the value of the non trump suits.

Trump suit:

Jack = 20, nine = 14, Ace = 11, Ten = 10, King = 4, queen = 3, eight = 0, and seven = 0

Non Trump suit:

Ace =11, Ten =10, King = 4, queen = 3, jack = 2, nine =0, eight = 0, and seven = 0

There is a total of 152 points.

Choosing your trumps;

There are several different ways to choose your trumps for the game and they are as follows:

1. Free choice

2. Utrecht or compulsory play

3. Random choice

Before a team chooses the method for choosing a trump, they must discuss it between themselves first and then they must announce it to the opposing team to prevent any confusion during game play. Each method determines who and how the trump is picked.

It always takes a bit of time to learn a new game. As with all card games there is a bit of strategy involved as well as working together as a team: and that is what makes games like this a fun challenge for any and all ages.

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