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Published By	(Public Domain)
Year Published	1810
# of Players:	3 − 3
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 3 players Recommended with 3, more than 3 players (4 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (1 voter) [poll]
Category	Card Game
Mechanic	Auction/Bidding Co-operative Play Trick-taking
Primary Name	Skat
Alternate Names	Lorum
Expanded By	Show Expansions »
Families	Traditional Card Games

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Traditional German card game played with a standard 32 card deck, roughly 200 years old.

A solo player (determined by a bidding process) plays against a coalition of the other two players. The solo player can choose between determining suit of trump, Grand (no trump) and Null (no tricks wins the game).

Complex scoring (and bidding) dependent on type of game announced, number of trumps, margin of winning, (optional) open play of cards.

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German Erzgebirge Minors Skat Deck minors (Card-deck1)	14d 7h 28m	$ 29.00
32 Card Skat Deck, gold sides, 1950's (Card-deck1)	14d 7h 25m	$ 19.00
32 Card Skat Deck, 1930's Germany (Card-deck1)	14d 7h 25m	$ 45.00
ASS German SKAT Card Game Deck Flip Top Case CMPL	22d 11h 22m	$ 8.75
Skat Deck with Historic lead figures (Card-deck1)	14d 7h 32m	$ 14.50
Political Skat Card Deck (Card-deck1)	14d 7h 31m	$ 19.50
Political Skat 32 Card Deck w/ Skat rules (Card-deck1)	14d 7h 31m	$ 19.00
Official Skat Rule Book, Edition of 1953 (Card-deck1)	14d 7h 30m	$ 9.99
Bicycle Rider Back 808 poker rack deck Playing Cards BL	21d 11h 7m	$ 3.89
Deck Crooked Playing Cards - FREE (U.S.) Shipping	5d 16h 25m	$ 3.75

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1	Rules What happens when you mis-deal the cards?	2008-07-17	David Ells	4
3	General Mein allerlieblings Kartenspiel, spielte der tausendmal und nie wird der seinen Magie fuer mich verlieren ...	2008-07-08	David Ells	4
2	Rules Questions.	2008-05-23	pusherman42	10
9	Reviews My Grandparents Taught Me To Play…The Wrong Game!	2008-05-22	da pyrate	5
10	Reviews Skat: the what-is-this-suspicious-sounding-german-game-all-about review	2008-02-13	Grumpf	2
1	Rules Question: how to determine game value after playing a hand?	2007-06-01	Lightstorm	1
4	General Where can you buy German-suited cards in the US?	2007-04-13	mevitale	7
0	Rules Question about counting matadors	2005-05-24	Salt-Man Z	3

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Excel file for Jacks / Bauern / Buben combinations and other useful terms

This is a quick reference to show all 16 different combinations (aka with / without or mit / ohne) to determine the bidding multiplier for the 4 suits. It also has trump rank order, various names of the suits and other useful information, much of it gleaned from the German wikipedia page for Skat. Enjoy.

David Ells

2008-07-15

Deutsche Skat.PDF

Deutsche Skat Rules

tonycrider

2007-06-23

SkatQuickReference1.0.xls

Quick reference summary of bid values, point values, card rank, and common terms.

Malachi

2005-07-29

Michigan-Standard-Skat.txt

This Skat version was imported to Michigan around 1979 by Royal Floyd Mengot

jmellby

2005-07-26

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Average Rating:	7.29
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Personal Comments:	101
Users Owning:	277
Users Wanting:	6
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Introduction to Skat	http://www.pagat.com/schafk/skat.html	2003-07-03
David Parlett on Skat	http://www.davidparlett.co.uk/skat/	2006-06-30
Skat en http://www.labsk.net (in spanish)	http://www.labsk.net/index.php?topic=7025.0	2007-04-15

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