{"id":319,"date":"2025-09-25T08:34:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/?p=319"},"modified":"2025-10-02T20:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:33:29","slug":"the-games-people-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"The Games People Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_video src_webm=&#8221;https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sachs-on-Games.mp4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; height=&#8221;1020px&#8221; max_height=&#8221;1020px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_video][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Schweizer_Jasskarten.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Schweizer_Jasskarten&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;319px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;7px|||||&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and the Swiss play &#8220;Jass&#8221;, a game where, reflective of political influence in Switzerland, the &#8220;Bauer&#8221; (Farmer) is the most important card and where the small ones, cards below the six, don&#8217;t even exist. Furthermore, in Jass you don&#8217;t have to declare yourself, you can shift responsibility easily (&#8220;Schieber&#8221;) and the one who takes the last trick gets 50 points extra. Finally, the rules differ from canton to canton (&#8220;Kant\u00f6nligeist&#8221;), and sometimes from place to place, so that one can find the rules posted in restaurants and pubs to forestall possible disagreements.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and the Swiss play &#8220;Jass&#8221;, a game where, reflective of political influence in Switzerland, the &#8220;Bauer&#8221; (Farmer) is the most important card and where the small ones, cards below the six, don&#8217;t even exist. Furthermore, in Jass you don&#8217;t have to declare yourself, you can shift responsibility easily (&#8220;Schieber&#8221;) and the one who takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swissaffairs","category-worldaffairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dafko.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}