It’s all coming up trumps! How to play Jass.

Jass is a card game played with 36 cards in four colours with nine values each. The nine cards in each colour are aces, kings, queens, jacks, tens, nines, eights, sevens and sixes.

The most common version of Jass is known as “Schieber”. Schieber is a partnership Jass game, with the two players sitting opposite each other forming a team. Both team members’ points are added together. The aim of Schieber is to reach a score of 2500 points before the opposing team. Each player gets nine cards. The forehand (the player to the right of the dealer) must either choose the trump suit or pass. If he passes, his partner must nominate the trump suit. A round begins once the forehand plays the first card.