Ever heard of Tarok?

Posted by adaikalaraj on September 23rd, 2010

Tarok is a popular gambling game played in casinos of Romania. The game started as a betting pastime among Romanian soldiers and is said to have its origins from Austria as early as the 19th century. The game uses the classic 54 card tarok pack made up of 22 trumps, which is called in Romania as taroace. The four suits namely hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades have eight cards each. The uppermost trump is the skiz, and it looks somewhat like a joker and doesn?t have a number on it. The other trumps have huge Roman numerals. Every suit has four court cards namely king, queen, horse, and jack. The goal of the players would be to win tricks that have the most valuable cards. Typically, the game is suitable for four players. Nevertheless it is easy to switch to the three player type as well.