Schnellen

Schnellen; is a trick taking game with trumps. It is a popular card game in the region of Tyrol, South Tyrol and Vorarlberg. It is played with a set of German-suited playing cards (33 cards) where the 6 Bell-card (Weli) is always trump color and the second highest value. Each player gests five cards and is predicting the number of tricks taken by himself. If you succeed you loose points, if you fail you gain points. There are variants with exchange (bad) cards and leaving a round. —user summary