tarok
a card game dating probably from the Renaissance and still popular in central Europe, originally played with a special pack of 78 cards but now usually played with 32 cards of a regular pack together with 22 tarots.
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Styrean tarok, like the Tapp game, requires three players, the fourth one being a silent partner or dummy.
Prophetical, Educational and Playing Cards | Mrs. John King Van RensselaerThe game called Tapp tarok requires but fifty-four cards; it is only a variant of the others and is most popular.
Prophetical, Educational and Playing Cards | Mrs. John King Van RensselaerLet us make use of our time; the young fellows can dance; let us play tarok.
Black Diamonds | Mr JkaiThe tarok-player must not only study his cards, but also the faces of his adversaries.
Black Diamonds | Mr JkaiConversations round the room were now carried on in whispers; tarok cards were produced and here and there a game was in progress.
A Bride of the Plains | Baroness Emmuska Orczy
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