Skit Skat Card Game Rules

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Ten cards are dealt to each player. First, three cards are dealt to each player. Next, two cards are dealt face down into the middle to form the Skat. Then, four more cards are dealt to each player, and finally, three more cards are dealt to each player. SKAT card game from Special K Software. This program plays the popular card game of SKAT with the benefits of playing through WINDOWS. You can choose your style of play, as well as customising for local rules options. It has animation, and supports all sound cards. Speed and colours can be customised as never before.


The Game


Skat is a card game for three players.It is played with a card deck of 32 cards.Once dealing is finished each player ends up with 10 cards each. The rworemaining cards are stored for later.Your cards are shown face up whilst the cards of the other players are hidden.A Skat game comes in several phases: The first phase is an auction. Here all players bid and the highest player can make the game. How high one canbid depends on the game you plan to play and the amount of Jacks you have.The player who ones the auction can (optionally) open the two extra cardsand exchange them against two of his/her cards. This player also announceswhich game to play (which suite is trump). To compensate for this advantagethe two other players play together against this single player.
To make a move in the auction phase, click on the speech dialogs. To open the extra cards click on the lock, to choose a game click on the game windowwhich appears then. To swap extra cards against cards you hold, clickon the extra card and then on the card to exchange. In the gameyou can make a move then by clicking on any of your cards.
The player who is to make an move is indicated by the move icon (a headin the white circle). Players playing together are indicated by two blue figures,whilst a single player has one black figure. The trump suite and game modifiersare shown as icons on the score boards.
Skit skat card game rules games

Skit Skat Card Game Rules Games

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Game rules

A good overview over the Skat game can be found onWikipedia Skat.

Skit Skat Card Game Rules American

  • All four Jacks are counted as trumps and do not belong totheir suits.

  • If a color (e.g.heart) is selected as 'trump' all seven hearts as well as all fourJacks count as trumps, making 11 trump cards.

  • Jacks beat each other in order (greatest to least):Club->Spade->Heart->Diamond.

  • The sequence of cards for a trump color: Jack of clubs, Jack of spades,Jack of hearts, Jack of diamonds, Ace, Ten, King, Queen, Nine, Eight,Seven.

  • The sequence of cards for a non-trump color: Ace, Ten,King, Queen, Nine, Eight, Seven.

  • The values of the cards (highest to lowest):

CardValueCardValue
Ace11Jack2
Ten10Nine0
King4Eight0
Queen3Seven0
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Skit Skat Card Game Rules Game


  • A special 'trump' game is called the Grand. In this game no suit is trumpand only the four Jacks count as trump. This game type is indicated bythe symbol of a Jack's head on the score board.

  • Another special game is called the Null. In this game no suit is trump but theplayer has to avoid getting any trick. As soon as he gets any trick he lost the game.The sequence of cards does change in this game to:Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven.This game type is indicated bythe symbol of a Zero on the score board.

  • The player who start a round can choose any card to play.

  • The second and third players have to play the same suite as the first player played(keep in mind that the jacks count to the trump suite!). Only if aplayer does not have the first players's suite he/she can playany card.

  • The player who wins the round starts the next one.

  • The player who wins the round adds the values of the cardsplayed in that round to his/her score.

  • The single player wins the game with more then 60 points. If he winswith more than 90 or with 120 points an extra score is awarded (Schneider, Schwarz).

  • For each game a certain amount of victory points isawarded and added to the overall score.

Game Of Skat

This game currently uses the AI engine of the Open Source Game XSkat 4.0. Many thanksto Gunter Gerhardt for his effort.See also the XSkat license.