penny nap
Penny Nap" is a card game where each trick is worth one penny. The game is also known as "Napoleono" and "Dureń".
In "Penny Nap", the bidder collects from each other player if they make their bid. However, it doesn't matter if they make more tricks than they declared. The bidder is only paid for the number of tricks they first declared.
"Penny Nap" is a trick-taking game where players receive five cards each. The player who bids the highest number of tricks chooses trumps and tries to win at least that number of tricks.
In a trick, the player with the highest ranking trump card wins if a trump card is played. If no trump card is played, the player with the highest ranking card in the lead suit wins.
Napoleon or Nap is a straightforward trick-taking game in which players receive five cards each and whoever bids the highest number of tricks chooses trumpsPenny Nap" is a card game where each trick is worth one penny. The game is also known as "Napoleono" and "Dureń".
In "Penny Nap", the bidder collects from each other player if they make their bid. However, it doesn't matter if they make more tricks than they declared. The bidder is only paid for the number of tricks they first declared.
"Penny Nap" is a trick-taking game where players receive five cards each. The player who bids the highest number of tricks chooses trumps and tries to win at least that number of tricks.
In a trick, the player with the highest ranking trump card wins if a trump card is played. If no trump card is played, the player with the highest ranking card in the lead suit wins. and tries to win at least that number of tricks. It is often described as a simplified version of Euchre, although David Parlett believes it is more like "an elaboration of Rams". It has many variations throughout Northern Europe, such as Fipsen. The game has been popular in England for many years, and has given the language a slang expression, "to go nap", meaning to take five of anything. It may be less popular now than it was, but it is still played in some parts of southern England and in Strathclyde. Despite its title and allusions, it is not recorded before the last third of the nineteenth century, and may have been first named after Napoleon III.
