Ramsen or Ramsch is a traditional Bavarian plain-trick, card game for three to five players that is played with a 32-card German-suited pack and is suitable both for adults and for children.

[a] It is one of the Rams group of card games that are distinguished by allowing players to drop out if they think they will fail to win the required number of tricks.

It should not be confused with the contract of Ramsch in games like Skat or Schafkopf, nor with the related game of Rams which is also called Ramsenin Austria, but is played with a Piquet pack, does not have permanent trumps and has a different card ranking.

[7] It is also recorded as being played in the Austrian states of Vorarlberg, Tyrol, Lower Austria, Carinthia and Burgenland in recent times.

[10][11] Ramsen is a plain-trick game in which the aim is to win as many tricks as possible and be the first to complete the two crosses used for scoring.

[12] Ramsen is played with a 32-card, Bavarian pattern, German-suited pack with the suits of Acorns (), Leaves or Grass (), Hearts () and Bells ().

[9] The ranking order of the cards within the plain suits is: Sow > King > Ober > Unter > 10 > 9 > 8 > 7.

The next card is flipped to determine the trump suit and the remainder placed face down next to it as the talon.

The key differences are:[13] The four permanent trumps are not individually named, but are collectively called Criticals (Kritischer) or Greeks (Griechen).