jass
[ yahs ]
noun
a card game for two persons that is played with a 36-card pack made by removing all cards below the sixes from a regular 52-card pack, in which point values are assigned to certain melds and to certain cards taken in tricks.
Also jasz. the jack of trumps in klaberjass.
Origin of jass
1see origin at klaberjass
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