Marjapussi is a four-player point-trick card game played in southern Finland. Its name means "bag of berries", but it is a Finnish bending of the word marriage: the name is traced from marias to marjassi to marjapussi, and marriage itself is the French-derived word for a king and queen of the same suit held together. Players sit in two fixed partnerships, partners opposite each other, and use a 36-card pack ranking ace, ten, king, queen, jack, nine down to six. No trumps exist at the start of a hand. A player who wins a trick may declare trumps by showing a marriage, by asking a partner for one, or by asking for the other half of a king or queen. Teams score game points for a declared trump marriage, for other marriages, for the last trick and for the majority of card points, and win by reaching exactly ten. The bidding form of the game is a separate game called Huutopussi.
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Game Type (category) Game Type (category) Classification
Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Connections
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Source Pagat (John McLeod): Marjapussi
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Marjapussi is a four-player point-trick game played in southern Finland.
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Introduction
Marjapussi is a four-player point-trick game played in southern Finland.
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There are four players in two fixed partnerships, partners sitting opposite each other.
Derived From: Mariage (card game), Introduction [derived-from]
it is clearly derived from the French word "mariage"
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