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'''Neunkart''' ("Nine Cards") or '''Fett und Mager''' ("Fat and Lean") was a traditional [[North German]] card game played with 36 [[French-suited cards]].
== History and description ==
The game is mentioned as early as 1800 by [[Johann Friedrich Schütze]] as '''Neegenkaart''' and '''Fett un Mager''' in his [[Holstein]] dictionary, where it is described as a favourite game of Holstein farmers and townsfolk. Players were dealt 9 cards each and there was a trump suit.{{efn|Presumably played by four players with a (then) standard 36-card, [[French-suited pack]], typical of the region.}} The first, "higher paid" [[trick (cards)|tricks]] were the "fat ones" and the last tricks, paid at half the value, were the "lean ones."<ref>Schütze (1800), p. 208.</ref>{{efn|If stakes were anted by all players each time, there were probably three fat tricks and six lean ones. Players anted 3 stakes each, making 12 in total. The first three tricks paid 2 each and the last six tricks 1 stake each, thus emptying the pot. If only the dealer anted, the stake had to be quite large e.g. with 13 stakes, the first four tricks would be worth 2 each and the last five 1 each.}}
The game was also spelt '''Negenkaart.'''<ref>Berghaus (1883), p. 89.</ref> Around 1865 it is one of the many card games played by [[Eiderstedt]] farmers at Christmas alongside, [[Brausbart]], [[Dreikart]], [[Fünfkart]], [[Fips (card game)|Fips]], [[Karnüffel]], [[Scharwenzel|Scherwenzel]], [[Hahnrei]] and others.<ref>''Die Grenzboten'' (1865), p. 983.</ref>
But by around 1890, it was one of only two card games still being played by farmers in the [[Eiderstedt]] region alongside [[Dreekort]].<ref>_ (1892), p. 93.</ref>
As '''Nikort''' or '''Fedt og Magert''' it was played in Denmark in the 19th century alongside numerous other games.<ref>Feilberg (1864), p. 81.</ref>
== Footnotes ==
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== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* _. (1865). "Weihnachten in Schleswig-Holstein" in ''Die Grenzboten'', Vol. 4; Vol. 24, pp. 974–986.
* _. (1892). ''Zeitschrift für deutsche Kulturgeschichte'', Volume 3, Bauer & Raspe.
* Berghaus, Dr. Heinrich Karl Wilhelm (1883). ''Der Sprachschatz der Sassen: ein Wörterbuch der Plattdeütschen Sprache''. Vol. 2 (J–R). Berlin W.: R. Eisenschmidt.
* Feilberg, Henning Frederik (1864). [https://books.google.com/books?id=CRJbAAAAcAAJ&dq=nikort&pg=PA81 ''Fra Heden''] Hadersley.
* [[Johann Friedrich Schütze|Schütze , Johann Friedrich]] (1800). ''Holsteinisches Idiotikon''.  Part 1. Hamburg: Heinrich Ludgwig Villaume.
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[[Category:Shedding-type card games]]
[[Category:Four-player card games]]
[[Category:Card games of Schleswig-Holstein]]
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