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Skat Cheat Sheet, Blue Rings Deck
Everything on the deck's own four summary cards, in one printable page: suits, card values, game values, the bidding ladder, and Null rules.
Playing with a normal deck instead? Same game, different labels — see the standard-deck cheat sheet.
Suits & card values
| Suit | Yellow | Red | Green | Blue |
|---|
| Card | Dash | Cross | Triangle | 3 | 4 | 10 | 11 | Yellow Ring | Red Rings | Green Rings | Blue Rings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
The Ring cards are trump, always, ranked left to right on the table above. In a color game the chosen suit's own cards rank below all four Rings. Rank increases left to right across the whole row.
Game values
▶ Watch: the Game Values video
Game Value = (Game Multiplier + Extra Multipliers) × Base Value
Base value, by trump
| Trump | Yellow | Red | Green | Blue | Rings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base value | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 24 |
Game multiplier, from Ring cards
| Blue | Green | Red | Yellow | Result | Multiplier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| have | miss | — | — | With 1 | 2 |
| have | have | miss | — | With 2 | 3 |
| have | have | have | miss | With 3 | 4 |
| have | have | have | have | With 4 | 5 |
| miss | have | — | — | Without 1 | 2 |
| miss | miss | have | — | Without 2 | 3 |
| miss | miss | miss | have | Without 3 | 4 |
| miss | miss | miss | miss | Without 4 | 5 |
Extra multipliers: +1 for each that applies
| Hand | No pick nor bury of the blind. |
|---|---|
| Poor | Loser has 30 or fewer points. |
| Trickless | Loser did not make any trick. |
| Poor announced | Requires Hand. Solo player announces "poor" at the start; loses if opponents aren't poor at the end. |
| Trickless announced | Requires Hand. |
| Ouvert | Requires Trickless announced. Solo player shows cards during play. |
Worked examples
- Without 1, game 2, × Yellow (9) = 18.
- With 1, game 2, Hand 3, × Blue (12) = 36.
- With 3, game 4, Poor 5, Trickless 6, × Red (10) = 60.
- Without 1, game 2, × Rings (24) = 48.
Null values
| Null | Null Hand | Null Ouvert | Null Hand Ouvert |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 35 | 46 | 59 |
Null ranking: Dash, Cross, Triangle, 1 (was 10), 2 (the Ring), 3, 4, 11 — no trump. Solo player wins by staying trickless.
Bidding ladder
18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, 30, 33, 35, 36, 40, 44, 45, 46, 48, 50, 55, 59, 60…96…
61 of the 120 points to win as solo player. Falling short of the bid is an automatic loss, and it counts double. Full walkthrough of how bids are actually made on Skat bidding, explained.
Matches the deck in your hand
This is the same reference printed across the four summary cards that ship with every deck — just easier to read all at once, or hand to a new player before the cards arrive.
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