Game

Dappen

The goal: win Victory Points. One player, the Dapper, plays alone against all the other players, who play together as one team, and the Dapper wins the hand by keeping the team under 40 Card Points.

Players
6–8
Difficulty
Deck
Alpine Tarok
Cards per hand
6–7

  1. Deal

    With six players each player gets seven cards, and with seven players each player gets six. During the deal the Dealer lays two packets of six cards face-down in the middle, and these twelve cards are the Dapp.

  2. Bid

    Starting right of the Dealer, each player in turn says “Solo!” or “pass”, and if everyone passes, each player in turn says “Dapp!” or “pass”. The first player to say “Solo!” or “Dapp!” is the Dapper, and after “Solo!” the Dapper plays the hand as dealt and never touches the Dapp.

  3. Dapp

    If a later player calls “Challenge!” after a player has said “Dapp!”, the bidder keeps the Dapp or hands it to the Challenger, and the contract scores double either way. The Dapper then takes the twelve Dapp cards and discards down to their dealt hand size, and before the first trick the Dapper may lay the Pagat, the II or the III face-up as an Ultimo, a promise that this card will win one of the last three tricks.

  4. Play

    The players play the hand out trick by trick.

  5. Score

    After the last trick the Dapper and the team count their Card Points. The winners add Victory Points, and the first player to reach 60 Victory Points wins.

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