How do you use a Jass scoreboard and Jasstafel?

How do I use a Jass scoreboard for a round?

A Jass scoreboard records a round after you select the game form and enter the points for both teams. The Jasstafel — the traditional Jass scoreboard — then displays the result in two separate columns.

Choose the factor that matches the game form used at the table. The choice may represent a trump suit, Obenabe (top-down play) or Undenufe (bottom-up play). The common factor table is loaded by default, but regional tables also exist. Confirm the agreed table before you enter the result.

Enter the round in its scoring parts:

• Tricks: enter the card points taken by each team, including the last-trick bonus where applicable.
• Weis: enter the valid announced combinations credited to each team.
• Stöck: enter the trump king and Ober combination when one team has declared it correctly.

Confirm the entries only after checking both team columns. The tool applies the selected factor to the complete written round and draws the result as strokes. The display therefore resembles a physical Jasstafel rather than a plain list of totals.

A round contains 9 tricks. The pack contains 152 card points, and the last trick adds 5, making 157 card points before any factor, Weis or Stöck is included. If one team wins all 9 tricks, the match bonus adds 100, making 257 before other scoring elements. Those figures give you a useful check when the table has finished counting.

For example, a team may enter its trick points first, then add a valid Weis and Stöck before confirming the round. The factor does not belong to the tricks field alone. The complete written result receives the factor, and the opposing team’s result receives the same factor.

The scoreboard is a recording aid rather than a card table. It does not deal cards, follow tricks, decide which card wins or determine whether a play was legal. You supply the result agreed by the players, and the Jasstafel gives that result a traditional visual form.

The drawing also helps you check the running score. Each team remains on its own side of the vertical dividing line. A group of strokes shows the larger score blocks, while the lower-right plain number shows what the stroke notation cannot express.

For the physical layout, read writing a Jasstafel. For the values assigned to cards, see card values in Jass.

Figure caption: A Jasstafel score view places one team in each column, separated by a vertical line, with grouped strokes and the remaining plain number shown at the lower right.

How are points written on a Jasstafel?

A Jasstafel writes each team’s score in one of two columns divided by a vertical line. Strokes run from left to right in three rows: hundreds on the top row, fifties in the middle and twenties at the bottom.

The layout is a compact notation for a running score. The fifth stroke crosses the four strokes before it, creating a recognisable group. Fifties use two strokes drawn across the group. These marks allow players to count the score visually without writing every result as a long ordinary number.

The upper right contains two larger symbols. X stands for 1000, and V stands for 500. The lower right contains a plain number for anything that the strokes cannot express. That number may be negative, and only one such plain number stands at a time.

Read a column from its rows and symbols rather than treating every mark as an isolated stroke. The top row represents hundreds. The middle row represents fifties. The bottom row represents twenties. The upper-right X and V extend the notation for larger scores, while the lower-right number records the current remainder outside those groups.

For example, a score can contain completed hundreds on the top row, a fifties group in the middle row and twenties at the bottom. A fifth stroke crossing the preceding four tells you that the group is complete. If the remaining amount does not fit those stroke groups, the plain number at the lower right supplies the exact remainder.

The lower-right number is not an additional permanent score column. It is the one current amount that the stroke notation cannot show. If a later round changes the remainder, the plain number changes with the rest of the board. A negative remainder is permitted, but the notation still shows only one plain number at a time.

The two-column arrangement keeps the teams independent. A stroke in the left column belongs to that team, and a stroke in the right column belongs to the other. The vertical line does not represent a scoring deduction or bonus. It marks the boundary between the two running totals.

The app reproduces this convention after you enter a round. It places hundreds, fifties and twenties in their respective rows and uses X or V in the upper right when the score requires those symbols. You do not need to draw the marks by hand or translate every group into a conventional total before using the tool.

A conventional number remains useful when you check the round. The Jasstafel drawing supplies the familiar table view, while the number confirms the exact result. Both forms describe the same score, not separate scoring systems.

The notation remains readable during a long game because new results extend an established pattern. A crossed fifth stroke is easier to recognise than a dense sequence of individual marks, and each team’s column prevents the two scores from becoming mixed.

What does the factor multiply in Jass?

The factor multiplies the whole written round for both teams. Tricks, Weis and Stöck therefore receive the same factor treatment as one combined round, rather than the factor applying only to the team that chose the game form.

The common table is the table the app writes by default:

• Eicheln ×1
• Rosen ×1
• Schellen ×2
• Schilten ×2
• Obenabe ×3
• Undenufe ×4

These factors are regional, so the default table is not the only valid table. A widely published variant gives both Obenabe and Undenufe ×3. An ascending variant uses Eicheln ×1, Rosen ×2, Schellen ×3, Schilten ×4, Obenabe ×5 and Undenufe ×6. Agree the table before scoring the round, especially when players have learned different regional customs.

In a suit game, the selected suit determines the relevant factor. Obenabe and Undenufe use their own game-form entries. Obenabe means top-down play, where the card order favours higher cards. Undenufe means bottom-up play, where the card order favours lower cards. The factor describes the value of the complete round under that game form.

Consider the order of calculation. First establish the entries that belong to each team: tricks, Weis and Stöck. Then apply the chosen factor to the written round. If the selected factor is ×2, the trick points, Weis and Stöck for both teams are all multiplied by ×2. Multiplying only the tricks would produce an incorrect result.

Stöck means the king and Ober of the trump suit in one hand. Stöck is worth 20 points, credited to that team regardless of the Weis comparison. Stöck does not exist in Obenabe or Undenufe. In a suit game, however, Stöck forms part of the written round, so the selected factor applies to it with the tricks and Weis.

The factor also affects the team that did not choose the game form. The chosen game form sets the multiplier for the round, not a private bonus for one side. Both columns on the Jasstafel must therefore reflect the same factor, even when one team has taken more tricks or announced more Weis.

For the declaration timing and value of the combination, read Stöck in Jass. For the announcement rules, read Weis in Jass. Those rules establish which points enter the round. The scoreboard records the figures after the table has established them.

The app’s default is the common table because that table is widely used. The default does not remove the regional alternatives. Groups using the ×3 Obenabe and ×3 Undenufe variant or the ascending table should use the values agreed for their game rather than treating the default as universal.

A factor is therefore not a decoration on the score view. It changes the value of every scored part of the round for both teams. Check the game form and table before confirming the entry, then read the resulting Jasstafel columns as the multiplied totals.

How do the round score and winning order work?

A Jass round contains 9 tricks and begins with 157 card points: 152 points in the pack plus 5 for the last trick. Winning all 9 tricks adds 100, making 257 before Weis, Stöck or the factor is included.

The round score has distinct parts. The cards provide the trick points. The last trick adds its 5-point bonus. Weis adds valid announced combinations. Stöck adds 20 when one player holds the king and Ober of the trump suit and declares the combination at the correct moment. The selected factor then multiplies the complete written round for both teams.

The order for crossing the target is also specific. When a round takes a team past the target, count the blocks in this order:

1. Weis
2. Stöck
3. Tricks

A team that crosses the target in an earlier block wins. The largest final total is not the only point to consider, because the order in which the round’s points are counted determines which team crossed first.

For example, compare two teams whose round entries together take the score beyond the target. Count the Weis block first. If neither team crosses there, count Stöck. Count tricks only after those blocks. The team that reaches the target during the earlier block wins, even if the other team would have a larger total after every block had been added.

Stöck also has a declaration rule that can change the entry before the score is written. Declare Stöck while playing the second of the two cards, not the first. If the next player has already covered that card before the declaration, the 20 points are lost. Partners may not remind each other.

The timing matters because Stöck is not an automatic addition that the scoreboard can infer from the final cards. A player must make the declaration during play. If the declaration is late, enter no 20 points for Stöck. The tool can display an amount that you enter, but it cannot decide from a total whether the declaration was timely.

Practice targets are 1000, 1500, 2500 and 3000. The app offers 1000 and 2500. A target belongs to the match rather than to one individual round. Calculate and record the round first, then compare the running score with the agreed target using the Weis, Stöck and tricks order.

A Schieber — the partner-passing form of Jass — still requires careful entry of the round result, although local scoring customs can vary. Read Schieber rules for that game form and match targets for target choices and regional treatment.

The players remain responsible for agreeing the game form, factor, target and declarations. The Jasstafel makes the result easier to read, but the winning order must come from the rules agreed at the table.

What does the Jass scoreboard not do?

The Jasstafel tool records the score that you enter. It does not play Jass, deal cards, evaluate tricks, check legal plays or verify the arithmetic against the cards in the round.

The players must establish the result before using the scoreboard. Enter the trick points, Weis and Stöck for each team, select the agreed factor and confirm the round. The app then applies the factor to the figures supplied and draws the corresponding Jasstafel notation.

A neat drawing does not prove that the underlying entry is correct. The tool cannot know which cards each player held, which card won a trick, whether a player followed suit or whether a declared combination qualifies as Weis. It also cannot reconstruct the play from a final number.

Stöck shows why that distinction matters. Stöck is worth 20 when the king and Ober of the trump suit are in one hand and the player declares the combination while playing the second card. If the next player has already covered that card before the declaration, the 20 points are lost. The scoreboard can record 20 when you enter 20, but it cannot inspect the trick and award or remove the points automatically.

Card arithmetic still belongs to the players. The pack contains 152 card points, the last trick adds 5 and taking all 9 tricks adds 100. These values help the table check its result. The tool does not compare a card-by-card record with the totals entered into the fields.

The same limit applies to regional rules. The common factor table is the app’s default, but a widely published variant gives both Obenabe and Undenufe ×3, while an ascending variant runs from Eicheln ×1 through Undenufe ×6. The app can display the factor you use, but the players must know which regional table the game follows.

The current board also ends when the page closes. The tool does not preserve the score after that point. Record any result that you need to keep before leaving the page, since a later visit cannot recover the previous board.

This narrow purpose is useful at the table. The app provides the traditional two-column drawing, applies the selected factor and shows the running score in a familiar form. It does not replace the players’ decisions about cards, declarations, regional rules or the target.

Use the scoreboard after the table has agreed the round. Check the two team columns, confirm the factor and verify Weis and Stöck before accepting the drawing. A short review is especially valuable when the group uses a regional factor table or when Stöck was declared during a close trick.

The tool therefore supports recording rather than adjudication. It makes the agreed result visible, while responsibility for the play and the rules remains with the players.