Skat (card game)
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This article is about the German card game. For the American game sometimes called Scat, see Thirty-one (card game).
Skat (German pronunciation: [ˈskaːt]) is a three-player trick-taking card game of the Ace-Ten family, devised around 1810 in Altenburg in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. It is the national game of Germany[1] and, along with Doppelkopf, it is the most popular card game in Germany and Silesia and one of the most popular in the rest of Poland. John McLeod considers it one of the best and most interesting card games for three players,[1][2] and Kelbet described it as "the king of German card games."[3]