packets of 4, trumps being chosen by forehand after the first packet has been dealt. It employs a 32-card, French-suited Skat pack and there are 2 Jacks (Bauer) as top trumps: the trump Jack or Dicke ("fat one") and the Jack of the same suit colour or Linke ("left one"). Forehand leads with a trump (sometimes optional). Suit must be followed, but players may play any card if unable to follow. Teams start with eight points and aim to be first to zero, one point being deducted to the winners of a deal if they declared trumps. If the declarers lose, they add a point and their opponents deduct one. On reaching zero, the team earns a Brot ("loaf" or "roll") or Schròòm. The equivalent of a march is Karten weg which is announced by a player who intends to take every trick. The partner's cards are set aside and the march player leads off. Winning earns an extra Brot. The game is sometimes played with a shortened pack of 20 cards or by two teams of 3. Reunion Reunion, a 19th-century Rhineland game, also shares the feature of having two Jacks as the top trumps, but is a three-hand game played with 10-card hands and a 32-card Skat pack. Bester Bube Bester Bube also employs two Jacks as top trumps and a 5-card hand, but is a member of the Rams group in which players may drop out if they don't think their hand is strong enough. There appears to be no equivalent of the Marsch. References Literature Bumppo, Natty (1999). The Columbus Book of Euchre. 2nd edn. Brownsville, KY: Borf. Cowell, Joseph (1845) [1844] Thirty Years passed among the Players in England and America. Part 2: America. NY: Harper. Erckmann-Chatrian (1864). L’Ami Fritz. Paris: Librairie Hachette. Hackländer, F. W. "Die erste Versammlung deutscher bildender Künstler" in Hausblätter published by Hackländer and Edmund Hoefer. Vol. 4. Stuttgart: Adolph Krabbe. Martin, Ernst and Hans Lienhart (1899). Wörterbuch der elsässischen Mundarten, Vol. 1 (A E I O U F V G H J K L M N), Trübner, Strassburg. Maurer et al. (1965-2010). Südhessisches Wörterbuch. Müller, Josef (1928). Rheinisches Wörterbuch, Vol. 3. Fritz Klopp, Bonn. Parlett, David (1990). A History of Card Games, OUP, Oxford. Parlett, David (2006), "The Origins of Euchre," in The Playing-Card, Vol. 35. No. 4. Apr-Jun 2007. pp. 255 ff. Piomingo (1810). The Savage. Philadelphia: Thomas S.