I want to learn how to play Skat

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A recent conversation with an emphatic fan of the game piqued my interest. The only other trick based card games I've ever played were Spades, Hearts and Pinochle. Anybody else play?

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 25 October 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a very good game, very strategic. I haven't played it very much but I definitely recommend it. It's fantastic in that there aren't that many good games for three people.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 25 October 2004 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.insidejoke.tv/images/200306/skatkat2.jpg

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 25 October 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Also I recommend euchre.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 25 October 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

wait'll dan perry discovers this thread ...

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 25 October 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I've already struggled to find pictures of poo that weren't, you know, pictures of poo.

― Hank Tenbeer (kenan), Monday, 25 October 2004 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

skat, skat, motherfucker

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

well put.

― Hank Tenbeer (kenan), Monday, 25 October 2004 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

It probably doesn't ruin the jokes AT ALL that it's pronounced closer to "skart", either.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 25 October 2004 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought it was spelt "skart"! It's a great game, I agree.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 25 October 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Etymology: German, modification of Italian scarto discard, from scartare to discard, from s- (from Latin ex-) + carta card

Still, if you're an American, it's closer to "Scot" than "Skart".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 25 October 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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