Let's see if there is any interest in a Saturday afternoon game.

The Panera in Solon now has a meeting room. If we get enough attendees I will reserve this.

At least 3 players crucial!

3 or 4 players are required at each table for this game. IF THIS MEETUP IS FULL, PLEASE ADD YOURSELF TO THE WAITING LIST. As the list grows, I will manually move individuals to the YES list as we get enough people for another table. You will receive an email to let you know if and when your status changes.

Skat (pronounced like the name "Scott") has been Germany's national card game for nearly 200 years. In fact, it is not so much a game as a national institution. Though comparable to Bridge in depth and variety, it is essentially a classless game, being played as enthusiastically in homes and pubs as it is played seriously in clubs and tournaments under the aegis of the German Skat Federation. In Germany there are thousands of local Skat clubs and annual national tournaments are held. Worldwide tournaments are organized by the International Skat-Players Association, to which are affiliated local associations in Australia, Belgium, the Bahamas, Canada, Germany, France, Namibia, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, South Africa and the USA.

Skat is unusual in that it is one of the few card games optimized for three players. Around 1810, in Altenburg in Thuringia (a region not far from Leipzig, Germany) members of a local card club were enjoying three-handed games like Tarock and the Spanish game Hombre. Someone introduced the group to Schafkopf, a 4-handed game popular in Bavaria (later imported to the U.S. as Sheepshead). Intrigued by Schafkopf but preferring three-handed games, they created Skat, a variation of Schafkopf for three players, but which far surpasses the original game in its mathematical and scientific complexity. Combining elements of Bridge, Hearts, Euchre, Pinochle, and Poker, it is one of the most exciting card games in the world.