Tatteln

Tatteln is a historical point-trick card game for two players, played with a 32-card French or German-suited deck, first recorded in Hamburg in 1801. Its rules resemble those of Piquet and Mariage, and the game has been described as a trick-and-draw version of the international classic two-handed game Klaberjass. The trump suit follows a distinctive ranking of Jack, Nine, Ace, Ten, King, Queen, Eight, Seven, while the plain suits rank in the more familiar order of Ace, Ten, King, Queen, Jack, then the remaining low cards. During play, both players form scoring combinations called tattels, three consecutive cards of a suit, along with longer runs known as quarts and feet, and after each trick they draw from a talon to keep their hands replenished. Points are scored from the cards captured in tricks, with the final trick of a deal always worth 10 points regardless of which cards it contains. By 1858 the game had become very popular in Austria, described at the time as a combination of the well known game of Piquet and the archaic game of Mariage, though it had largely disappeared by the late nineteenth century, surviving afterward mainly in regional variants such as the Austrian game Tartl.