Pollack is a German card game for four players in two partnerships, a variant of the French Canadian game Le Quatre Sept, also known as La Politaine, which itself descends from the Italian game Tressette. It was described in the middle of the nineteenth century, probably first in Ludwig von Alvensleben's Encyclopädie der Spiele of 1853, which called it a new game that quickly gained popularity and was played often in public places, particularly in Berlin. It has kept appearing in German card game books since, though it is not known how widely it is still played. Pollack is played with the 32-card pack, French or German suited, and the cards rank 10, 9, ace, king, queen, jack, 8, 7. Instead of the scoring of Quatre Sept, players declare combinations held in hand: three points for three tens, nines or aces, four points for four of a kind, and three points for a Pollack, the ten, nine and ace of one suit. The first side to reach 21 points wins.
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a German variant of La Politaine known as Pollack
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Pollack section
In this case, the ace is a Daus, the queen is replaced by the Ober, and the jack by the Unter.
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Classified Index > Trick Taking Games > Tressette group > Quatre Sept
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There are four players in fixed partnerships.
Pollack section [origin-year]
The game Pollack was described in the mid-19th century, probably first in Ludwig von Alvensleben's Encyclopädie der Spiele (Leipzig 1853
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a German variant of La Politaine known as Pollack
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