Grasobern

Grasobern is a traditional card game of Bavaria and Austria in which players try to avoid taking the Ober of Leaves, the Grasober that gives the game its name, and to avoid winning the last trick. It is played with a 32-card German-suited pack without trumps, usually by four players each playing for themselves, and each player must follow suit when able. Players may instead bid special contracts, Bettel to lose every trick or Mord to win every trick, and a player who has taken the first five tricks may announce a Schleicher to win the rest. The earliest known mention is in a poem of 1824, and the game remains played in eastern Bavaria and in Upper Austria, where it is called Grünobern or Grea Bua and has its own annual cup.