Jack–nine games
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Jack–nine card games, also known as the Jass group from the German term for the jack, form a family of trick-taking games in which the jack and nine of the trump suit are the highest-ranking trumps, and the tens and aces of all suits are the next most valuable cards.[1]: 305 [2] Games in this family are typically played by 2 or 4 players with 32 French-suited cards.
Popular European games in this family include four-handed belote, klaverjas and Jass but also a widespread two-hander known under various names including bela and Klaberjass. With the exception of the South Asian variants twenty-nine, twenty-eight and fifty-six, trick play in these games follows special rules that encourage trumping and overtrumping.
In the classification system of pagat.com, the Jass group is a subfamily of the marriage group of card games which in turn is a sub-family of the ace–ten group that is very popular in most of Europe, but almost absent in the British Isles and Scandinavia.[2]