Skat

Skat, a game played with thirty-two cards as in Piquet (q.v.), and said to have been invented in 1817 in Altenburg, whence it rapidly spread into other parts of Germany and beyond the borders of the fatherland. Each of three players receives ten cards, the two others being laid aside (hence the name—from old French escart, 'laying aside'). The values of the cards and the rules of the game are expounded in numerous works—one in English by L. V. Diehl (Lond. 1891).