Point Tarock was a three-player tarot card game, played mainly in Austria, which used the 54-card Industrie und Glück deck.

Furr describes it as being "identical to Tapp but for the addition of a special announcement, allowing a Declarer to capitalize on a very good hand... spicing up the game considerably.

[3] These games have been featured in literature such as Herzmanovsky-Orlando's Masquerade of the Genii and Johann Nestroy's Zu ebener Erde und im ersten Stock.

[7] In 1965, Beck switches the names of the two games referring to this version now as Point Tarock (Pointtarock) .

The only subsequent record of its rules is published by Alscher in 2004 where, again it is referred to as Illustrated Tarock, a name that, however, has become increasingly associated with its more popular and complex cousin.

The game may in any case now be obsolete, being noticeably absent from Bamberger's successor to Löw's and Beck's Tarock series.

The cards rank as follows: Kings and Honours are worth 5 points, Queens 4, Cavaliers 3, Valets 2, and the pips 1.

[a] Once the declarer has exchanged with the talon, she must decide how good her hand is and then announce the number of card points she will contract to win.

[17] The rules on bonuses are variable but typically include:[17] If the declarer achieves her target, she wins the points above.