Neunzehnerrufen
Neunzehnerrufen (German: "Call Nineteen") is an Austrian card game of the Tarock (tarot) family for four players. Under the name Taroky or Czech Taroky it is the national Tarock variant of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but - with certain variations – is also played in parts of the Austrian states of Upper Austria, Lower Austria and the Styria as well as in Poland south of the River Vistula.
| A trick-taking game of the Austrian Tarock family. | |
A hand of Tarock cards | |
| Origin | Austria |
|---|---|
| Type | Trick-taking |
| Players | 4 |
| Cards | 54 |
| Deck | Industrie und Glück |
| Rank (high→low) | Tarocks: Sküs, XXI-I ♠♣: K Q C J 10 - 7 ♥♦: K Q C J 1-4 |
| Play | Anticlockwise |
| Related games | |
| Königrufen • Tapp Tarock • Zwanzigerrufen | |
Despite its name, the game is less related to Zwanzigerrufen than to Königrufen. However, it differs from the latter in the number and way the packets are dealt: 12 cards to each of the four players, 2 × 3 cards go, as a talon into the middle of the table. Thus there has been and is a cross-fertilization process between the two variants, with the exchange of game and bonus declarations.