Beer card cash nine winners, ending with the beer card. If the diamonds don't break, there's a chance that a defender will be pseudosqueezed and choose to discard a diamond. For declarer to discard three diamond honors risks losing the contract unnecessarily, and so forfeits the beer, even if diamonds turn out to break normally. Alternately, if North-South only exclude diamond partials from beer card enforcement, then the declarer in six diamonds can easily beer assuming trumps break. Declarer wins the (say) heart lead in the South hand and cashes one high trump in the North hand. When they break, declarer cashes
Deuce (playing card) of a boar on the playing cards was simply a pictorial illustration of this etymological development. According to Marianne Rumpf, the name comes from a Baden dialect in which the "S" is spoken like a "Sch" and the word "Dausch" is used for a female pig or sow. The Brothers Grimm state in their dictionary, that the word "Tausch" was used for the four cards. Perhaps the word "Dausch" inspired card artists who illustrated the free space under the coloured symbols with a sow. The language of card players may also have given rise to the expression "Däuser" (also "Deuser")