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The Swiss card gameJass
Get ready to test your hand at Jass. We have two Jass parties each year.
Jass at the Swiss Club
If you don’t know how to play, we have a learning table — come early to get started, or just to refamiliarise yourself with the game, so you can join the fun and play with everyone.
We play men on one side and women on the other. After one hand, one side of the table moves down one space, which makes changing partners easy. This happens after each round. We play nine hands before lunch; after lunch, the opposite side moves. You get to visit and play with new people each hand, and it makes for a very enjoyable day.
A light lunch is served between rounds, and we have a raffle and door prizes.
Learning to play
American Jass can be played four or six handed. There are many apps available that you can play on your phone — some use Jass cards, and some of the rules are a bit different from playing at the Swiss Club.
More Jass enthusiasts bring a greater knowledge and skill set to the card table, and sometimes a little more aggression with it. Jass at the Swiss Club is the gentler version.
Jass against the computer
Schieber Jass at a table of four — you and your partner against the other two. Thirty-six Swiss cards, trumps you name yourself, and the Under above everything in them.
It remembers the hand you are in the middle of, so you can shut it and pick the same game back up later.
Deal me inThe arrow at the top left of the table brings you back to this page.