Konter a Matt jack 1, 10 and 9 nothing. At the beginning of one game, the trump suit is fixed. Additionally, three cards are always trumps: the queens of spades Q, hearts Q and diamonds Q are always trumps. This is what gave the name to the game: the two queens of hearts Q and diamonds Q are the two Kontra trumps, the queen of spades Q is the “Matt”. As a consequence, in a match, depending on which suit is the trump, there are nine or eight trumps, four possibilities, the value of the cards is as follows (from highest to lowest,
History of Skat card held by the soloist. Since this solution was not satisfactory either, and idea by Carl Christian Adam Neefe was adopted whereby an auction was held to determine the soloist and trump suit. By bidding, however, further types of contract other than the basic suit contracts became possible. Early forms of Null and Grand were already being played in the 1840s. The Null was, from the outset, a plain-trick game and basically resembled its modern successor. The predecessor of Grand was called Ace Game ("As-Spiel"); it was the counterpart to Null and also had no trumps. The main difference between