Dreierles
| A trick-taking game of the Tarot (Tarock) family. | |
The honour trumps in a Cego deck. | |
| Origin | Baden, Germany |
|---|---|
| Type | Trick-taking |
| Players | 3 |
| Skills | Tactics, Strategy |
| Cards | 54 |
| Deck | Adler or Black Forest Cego cards |
| Rank (high→low) | Trumps: Gstieß, 21-1 ♣♠ K Q C J 10 9 8 7 ♥♦ K Q C J 1 2 3 4 |
| Play | anticlockwise |
| Playing time | 20 min/deal |
| Chance | Moderate |
| Related games | |
| Tapp Tarock | |
Dreierles is a three-handed, trick-taking Tarot card game that is popular in the German region of central Baden. It is very old and appears to be a south German cousin of Tapp Tarock, the oldest known 54-card Tarot game. Dreierles is played with Cego cards - the only surviving German Tarot cards still produced. German soldiers fighting with Napoleon almost certainly introduced a Spanish modification to Dreierles that produced Baden's national game of Cego. Its relative simplicity makes it a good introduction to games of the central European Tarot family, usually called Tarock games.