This month we’re off to Switzerland; home to mountainous hiking trails, skiing, and those ubiquitous pocket knives so well suited to slicing the cellophane from all our favourite board games. But what about their games?
As a landlocked country in Europe, Switzerland has, unsurprisingly, been subject to the same transference of ideas and cultural products as its neighbours. Consequently, games such as chess and nine-mens-morris have been long present in the region. By the late eighteenth-century, though, a more identifiably Swiss game rose to prominence after its introduction by Protestant mercenaries.
Jass is a trick-taking card game, typically played by teams of two, utilising the traditional Swiss-German-suited thirty-six card deck. The name, Jass, is more of an umbrella term for the game’s seventy-plus variants, the most popular of which being Schieber. Regardless of variant, Jass games are typically driven by each team’s need for cooperation despite being forbidden to see or talk about each other’s current hand.
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