Troccas

It is a four player game played in the Romansh speaking part of the canton Grisons of Switzerland.

Swiss Tarot cards are referred to in the game by their Romansh (Rhæto-Romanic) names, but bear legends in French or German.

The full deck totals 72 points, and cards are worth the following: kings and honours (1 and 21 of trump, and the Fool) five, queens four, cavaliers three, jacks two, everything else one.

A team that is losing by at least nine points may request that the deal be in packets of nine and ten, with dealer taking twelve; a team losing by at least eighteen points may request that the deal be in a single packet each (nineteen cards and twenty-one for the dealer).

After the dealing of each packet, players can give coded statements known as tschintschar to their partner to decide whether or not to have the cards redealt.

The dealer discards two cards, which may not include Kings or Honours (the I or XXI of trump, as well as the Fool [il narr]).

If the side that wins the trick did not play the Fool, they must return it to their opponents, in exchange for a one-point card.

The most distinguishing aspect of Troccas which separates it from other tarot games is a rule involving the king and jack of each suit.