Excerpt from Skat: The German Game of Cards The Jacks or Knaves, called Wenzel, which seems to confirm the Wendisch origin of the game, Bauern'? (knaves), Jungen (boys), are the highest trumping cards, no matter which suit is made trumps, except in Nullo, Every player holds ten cards, two are laid aside in the Skat. The use made of these two cards, called the Skat, determines the two different styles of playing with the Skat (simple game and Tourne), or: without the Skat (solo, Nullo, Grando). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.