Stýrivolt is a four-player partnership trick-taking card game of the Karnöffel family, played with a 48-card pack made by removing the tens from a standard 52-card deck. It has been played in the Faroe Islands for over two hundred years, and the Pagat account, built on an article by Jógvan Bærentsen in Varðin in 1975, calls it more than three hundred years old and probably invented in Denmark. Each deal turns up two chosen suits whose aces, jacks and several other cards gain special powers, so a few permanent high cards and the chosen-suit cards outrank ordinary ones. Two teams of two hold nine cards each and try to win at least five of the nine tricks. Scores are chalked up as strokes and crosses, with a monk's cross for erasing all three strokes before the other side erases any. The version described is the one played in Kvívík, and card names vary from village to village across the islands.
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Source Pagat (John McLeod): Stýrivolt
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Source Pagat (John McLeod): StýrivoltIntroduction [origin-region]Quote, Introduction [origin-region]
It has been played in the Faroe Islands for over 200 years
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1. Pagat (John McLeod): Stýrivolt
Introduction
Stýrivolt is a card game which is more than 300 years old and was probably invented in Denmark.
Players and Objective
Each player has a hand of nine cards which are played out in tricks.
Players and Objective [player-count]
Four people play, two against two in partnerships.
Introduction [origin-region]
It has been played in the Faroe Islands for over 200 years
Derived From: Karnöffel, Introduction [derived-from]
Stýrivolt belongs to the Karnöffel group of card games, whose documented history reaches back to the early 15th century.
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