Definitions for skats

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skats skat

Spelling: [skaht, skat]

IPA: /skɑt, skæt/

Skats is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in skats (aksst).

Definitions for skats

noun

1. a card game for three players, using a pack of 32 playing cards, sevens through aces, the object being to fulfill any of various contracts, with scoring computed on strategy and on tricks won.

Origin of skats

1860-65; German skat Italian scarto, derivative of scartare to discard, equivalent to s- ex-¹ + -cartare, derivative of carta card

Examples for skats

Dirty playing cards were dug out and soon there was a real German skat game in full swing.

skat, skat, n. a game played with thirty-two cards as in Piquet, and said to have been invented in 1817 in Altenburg.

"We expect you on Wednesday for skat," said Mrs. Freudenthal.

He could not see it, but when he had poked among the bushes and cried ‘skat!’

It is also a ready reference on all rulings and plays up to the present time, a condensed glossary on the game of skat.

After a time the skat players, as usual, came bursting in, talking noisily and red of face.

Players of skat will readily recognize these terms and the value of the cards.

In their corner the skat players were sitting over their cards.

Even the skat players gave their attention for a few moments at a time.

With a double dummy, the French way, or Norwegian skat, if you like.