Sheepshead (card game) Sheepshead (card game) Sheepshead or Sheephead is a trick-taking card game invented by Julius Meinen. It is the Americanized version of Bavaria's national card game, Schafkopf, albeit the latter is played with Bavarian-pattern cards unlike its American descendant. Sheepshead is most commonly played by five players, but variants exist to allow for two to eight players. There are also many other variants to the game rules, and many slang terms used with the game. Schafkopf literally means "sheep's head" and may refer to the practice going back over a century of recording the score by drawing a stylised head of
Quodlibet (card game) laid all his cards out, he calls "Census!" and the first 'census' ("Volkszählung") is held. The remaining players score 10 penalty points for each card still held. The game continues. When the second player is 'out', the next census is taken. Each remaining card now costs 20 points. In the third census the player who still has hand cards receives 30 penalty points per card and must also count the packets remaining on the table. Quodlibet is played in many variations that deviate in their details from the above description. The 1888 "Meyers Konversationslexikon" describes Quodlibet as ""a card game