A three-handed card game played with 32 cards, of which two constitute the skat (sense 2), or widow
The four jacks are the best trumps, ranking club, spade, heart, diamond, and ten outranks king or queen (but when the player undertakes to lose all the tricks, the cards rank as in whist)
The players bid for the privilege of attempting any of several games or tasks, in most of which the player undertaking the game must take tricks counting in aggregate at least 61 (the counting cards being ace 11, ten 10, king 4, queen 3, jack 2)
The value of hands depends upon the game played, trump suit, points taken, and number of matadores
skat
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[ 'skät, 'skat ] (noun.) 1864. German, modification of Italian scarto discard, from scartare to discard, from s- + carta card; more at CARD.