The remaining cards are placed face down on the table to form the talon or stock.

The last person with a finger on his nose has lost and as a penalty or forfeit they must grunt like a piglet.

For example, if the King of Spades is the sixteenth card from the top or bottom, the "loser" is scratched sixteen times with the number of sixteen obliquely placed cards over the protruding bones of the back of the fist.

In Austria, a variant called Fingerpratzeln ("Finger Claw", in the regions of Flachgau and Tennengau) or Kuhschwanzeln ("Cow's Tail"; in Rußbach) is played which uses a 36-card William Tell pack.

The first player to collect four cards of the same suit places his hand on the table and is the winner.