Jassing
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Jassing is a famous Belgian card-game for 4 persons although you can play it with 3 or even 2 persons. Someone who plays Jassing is called a 'Jasser'. In Dutch the name is closely linked to belote, although nowadays the games have very little in common.
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[edit] Rules
Every player gets 13 cards (if there are only 3 players all hearts are removed from the game). The cards are normally given in this sequence: 2-4-3-3-1. The one who deals the cards starts playing. He puts a card on the table so that every other player can see it. Than all other players put a card upside-down on the table and all together they turn the card around. The player who has the second highest card wins and gets the cards. The one who played the lowest card (and was jassed) has to come out the next round. If two players have the same height of cards you look at the kind of card (spades, clubs, diamonds and hearts), so a spade is the highest. When all cards are played the one who one most wins the game and the one who lost has to deal next round.
[edit] Rules Colorjassing
If you can play the same suit of cards as the one who plays first, you have to. It is more important to have a higher suit of cards than it is to have a higher card. Colorjassing has much more possibilities than jassing, that is why it is much more popular.
[edit] Penalty
Although now forbidden in official contests, most amateur jassers play with penalty points. There is a whole syntax of movements that are made to express their feelings towards the game. None of them involve words, as it is forbidden to speak during official games (see Warschau-incident for more information).
What those movements are: - Hitting the table with the knuckles, meaning you are confident you are going to win the round. - Hitting another player's card, meaning you are confident that card is going to win. - Hitting the table with stretched fingers. This means I have big respect, and is mostly done after someone was right about which card was going to win the round. - Hitting the table with the knuckles, then hitting your own head (softly) twice with stretched fingers. This means you admit you were wrong predicting the winner of last round.
[edit] French Jassing
French jassing is a variant of traditional jassing, in which the player who wins a round gets the chance to come out during the next one. This version of jassing used to be really popular, and was even the most played, until the Warschau-incident, since which it has become taboo.
