Wild card (cards) "Weli", a special 6 of Bells, the 7 of Bells and 7 of Acorns. In the game of Perlaggen there are six or seven wild cards: four permanent "Perlaggs" - K or "Maxl", 6 or "Weli", 7 or "Little Weli", the 7 of Bells or "Bell-Spitz" and 7 or "Eichelspitz" - as well as 3 "Trump "Perlaggs"" - the 7, Unter and Ober of Trumps. There is a tendency among some players to regard wild cards as "impure" or treat wild card games as silly or amateurish. While it is certainly true that a game with too many wild cards
Napoleon (card game) in Strathclyde. Despite its title and allusions, it is not recorded before the last third of the nineteenth century, and may have been first named after Napoleon III. The old game of Napoleon consists simply of five cards dealt out singly with the various players bidding in their turn how many tricks they think they can make. The player to the dealer's left has the privilege of bidding first, and then every player after him may bid up to the limit, Napoleon, which is a declaration to take all five tricks. Whoever bids highest leads first, the card led determining