Dreiertarock
| An interesting Tarot game that demands a high level of skill | |
| Origin | Austria |
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| Type | Trick-taking |
| Players | 3 |
| Skills | Tactics, Strategy |
| Cards | 54 |
| Deck | Industrie und Glück |
| Rank (high→low) | Trumps: Sküs, XXI-I ♣♠ K Q C J 10 9 8 7 ♥♦ K Q C J 1 2 3 4 |
| Play | Anticlockwise |
| Playing time | 20 min. |
| Related games | |
| Strohmandeln • Tapp Tarock • Illustrated Tarock • Point Tarock | |
Dreiertarock is a 3-handed card game of the Austrian Tarock family. Although less popular than it once was, it is still played in Austria, especially in Carinthia, and in neighboring Slovenia. In 2013, it was one of five variants of Tarock game competed for in the International Piatnik Tarock Tournament (Internationales Piatnik-Tarockturnier) in Vienna. For a long time, three-handed variants of Tarock were played alongside the four-handed games and were very popular everywhere in Austria. They have since fallen behind in popularity which "is a pity because they are interesting variants which demand a high level of skill". They remain popular in Slovenia.