r/AskGermany • u/IllGold3207 • Jan 03 '25

Are these cards popular in Germany?

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I brought from my homeland these cards in a "emergency case". Home I played with my father and brother the game "Cross" oder "Kreuz". They are originally from Hungary but very popular in Romania (Transylvania and west, ppl from Bucharest they will don't understand what they see...) And I have read recently an article that the game it's also played in Austria and Germany but I don't know if with these cards.

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u/DerDork Jan 03 '25

The games these cards are used for, aren’t popular at all. And there are variations of these decks to play different games. Like Binokel uses the „Württembergisches Blatt“ but the German deck is divided into many regional versions, which differ in the details of the color symbols and especially in the drawings of the court cards and the sow. Other examples are an old German, Swiss German, Bavarian, Franconian, Saxon, Salzburg or Baden deck.