Other Versions of the Values

Traditional values differ from group to group. The Traditional Scoring Tables print one common version of each game’s values. This page gives the other versions that published sources state, each with its source and with the region or club exactly as the source names it. Source titles keep their own spelling, such as Tarock in German; this site writes Tarok.

Values are in Victory Points, whatever name each source gives them; Dappen pays in cents. Where a source counts Card Points in the traditional way, this page keeps the source’s numbers. In a table, none means that the set does not list that contract or bonus. In the bonus tables, a cell with two values gives the silent value first and the announced value second.

Calling the Twenty (Zwanzigerrufen)

The printed values are those of Bernhard Krüpl’s Tarock Page (Tarockania), which is archived online; Krüpl gives no value for the Dodge Round.

English Wikipedia

The English Wikipedia article on the game gives a second set. It names no region or club.

Contract Traditional value
the Call 1
No-Trump (Faberln) 4
Solo (Schwarzer) 4, sometimes 5
Bonus Victory Points
Silent Announced
Absolute 1 2
Pagat Ultimo 1 2
Valat 6, or 6 × the contract value 12 × the contract value
Trull, held in the hand 1 none
Four Kings, held in the hand 2 none
Moon capture (Mondfang) 1 none

Absolute means that one side takes no more than 32 Card Points. The article also states these rules for the values:

  • Announced bonuses count double, and an announced bonus that fails counts for the opponents.
  • In a Solo every bonus counts double.
  • In No-Trump only Valat, Absolute and Four Kings count.
  • After a Moon capture a double round is played: the next four hands score double.
  • According to some rules, Valat cancels every other bonus.
  • Some variants add the Dodge Round (Trischaken); the article gives no value for it.

Calling the King (Königrufen)

The printed contract values are those of Possert’s seminar rules (Die Regeln, Erstes oesterreichisches Tarockseminar), which are not online. pagat.com says that each group tends to have its own version, and that Markus Mair’s site tarock.tirol compares the rule sets of the Austrian tournament series.

pagat.com, Piatnik and Mair’s course rules

pagat.com (John McLeod) gives “a possible scoring schedule”. The rules leaflet of the card maker Piatnik gives a closely similar set. Markus Mair’s course rules (Kursregeln, March 2025), published at tarock.tirol, give a third set.

Contract pagat.com Piatnik Mair, course rules
the Call (Rufer) 1 1 1
Dodge Round (Trischaken) 1 1 2
Blind Solo (Sechserdreier) 2 won, 4 lost 2 won, 4 lost 4, and a loss counts double
Piccolo 2 2 2
Twocolo (Zwiccolo) 2 2 none
Grand Call (Solorufer; pagat.com and Piatnik: Solo) 2 2 2
Beggar (Bettel, Bettler) 3 3 4
Bird Call (Besserrufer) 1 + the Ultimo 2 + the Ultimo 1 + the Ultimo
No-Trump (Farbendreier) 3 none 5
Dreier 4 4 5
Piccolo ouvert 5 5 8
Open Beggar (Bettel ouvert) 6 6 8
No-Trump Solo (Farbensolo) 6 6 10
Besser Dreier none 4 + the Ultimo none
Grand Solo (Solodreier) 8 8 10

In a Dreier you play alone against three with half the talon, and the Taroks trump. A Piccolo ouvert is a Piccolo in which all hands lie face up after the first trick. A Besser Dreier is a Dreier in which the bid also promises an Ultimo, as in the Bird Call.

Bonus pagat.com and Piatnik Mair, course rules
Trull 1 / 2 1 / 2
Four Kings (4 Könige, Vier Könige) 1 / 2 1 / 2
Gewinn des gerufenen Königs 1 / none none
Moon capture (Mondfang) 1 / none none
Sküsfang 2 / none none
Pagat Ultimo 1 / 2 1 / 2
II Ultimo (Uhu) 2 / 4 2 / 4
III Ultimo (Kakadu) 3 / 6 3 / 6
IV Ultimo (Marabu, Quapil) 4 / 8 4 / 8
King Ultimo 1 / 2 1 / 2
1. Sack none none / 2
2. Sack none none / 2
Valat 4 × / 8 × the contract value 10 / 20, added to the contract value

Gewinn des gerufenen Königs (pagat.com: called king captured) means that the Declarer’s opponents win the called King. Sküsfang means that your side captures the other side’s Skus. 1. Sack means that your side takes at least 45 Card Points and two cards (Mair writes 45/2), and 2. Sack at least 55/2; both score only when announced. In pagat.com’s and Piatnik’s sets every bonus counts double in the Grand Call and the Grand Solo. In Mair’s course rules the bonuses count double in the same two contracts, the Valat counts double in the solo contracts, and each opponent pays the value once, so a lone Declarer settles three times the value.

Austrian tournament cups

Mair’s comparison of the cup rules (Unterschiede Cupregeln, March 2026) gives three regional sets: OÖ for the RTC, HRC and SWC cups, Tirol for the TTC (without Hopfgarten), and Wien for the WTC, STC and KTC. All three cups pay 1 for the Call and the Bird Call, 2 for Piccolo and the Grand Call, and 4 for the Blind Solo. The table shows the contracts on which they differ.

Contract OÖ Tirol Wien
Säcke (the two Sack bonuses) none 2 none
Dodge Round (Trischaken) 1 2 2
Twocolo (Zwiccolo) none none 2
Beggar (Bettler) 2 4 4
No-Trump (Farbendreier) 3 5 5
Dreier 4 5 5
Zwiccolo ouvert none 8 6
Piccolo ouvert 6 8 6
Open Beggar (Bettel ouvert) 7 8 8
No-Trump Solo (Farbensolo) 6 10 10
Grand Solo (Solodreier) 8 10 10
Valat ×8 20 20

A Zwiccolo ouvert is a Twocolo in which all hands lie face up after the first trick. Mair adds that the ideal compromise would be 3 for the Beggar, 4 for No-Trump and 8 for No-Trump Solo.

Mair’s earlier comparison of the cup bidding tables (Vergleich Lizitationstabellen Cups, 2011 to 2024) adds two columns: the Ö-Finale, and his own proposed compromise (Kompromiss). It gives the bonuses at their announced values only.

Contract or bonus Ö-Finale Kompromiss
the Call (Rufer) 1 1
Dodge Round (Trischaken) 1 1
Piccolo 2 2
Beggar (Bettler) 2 3
Grand Call (Solorufer) 2 2
Bird Call (Besserrufer) 1 1
No-Trump (Farbendreier) 3 4
Blind Solo (Sechserdreier) 4 4
Dreier 4 5
Piccolo ouvert 6 6
Open Beggar (Bettel ouvert) 7 7
No-Trump Solo (Farbensolo) 6 8
Grand Solo (Solodreier) 8 10
Pagat Ultimo, announced 2 2
II Ultimo (Uhu), announced 4 4
III Ultimo (Kakadu), announced 6 6
IV Ultimo (Quapil), announced 8 8
King Ultimo, announced 2 2
Trull, announced 2 2
Four Kings (Vier Könige), announced 2 2
Absolut, announced none 2
Valat ×8 20

pagat.com describes Absolut, also called Sack, as taking at least 46 Card Points, a threshold that may vary. The earlier comparison also names four values that are the same in every cup (A (identisch)): 1 for the Call, 2 for the Piccolo, 2 for the Grand Call and 4 for the Blind Solo. Its OÖ column lists an A-Rufer at 1, which the table does not describe.

Skoty, Somhany and Wien

Mair’s de luxe comparison (Vergleich der Lizitationstabellen de luxe, 2019 to 2026) sets three bidding tables side by side, headed Skoty, Somhany and Wien. Mair’s Skoty rules (Skotyregeln, August 2026) describe the contracts of the Skoty column.

Contract Skoty Somhany Wien
the Call (Rufer) 1 1 1
Dodge Round (Trischaken) 2 2 2
Piccolo 2 2 2
Twocolo (Zwiccolo) none 2 2
Threecolo (Triccolo) none 2 none
Grand Call (Solorufer) 2 2 2
Bird Call with the Pagat (Pagatrufer) 1 + the Ultimo 3 3
Bird Call with the II (Uhurufer) 1 + the Ultimo 5 5
Bird Call with the III (Kakadurufer) 1 + the Ultimo 7 7
Bird Call with the IV (Quapilrufer) 1 + the Ultimo 9 9
Geierrufer 1 + the Ultimo 11 none
Beggar (Bettler) 4 4 4
Musso none 4 none
Farbensechser none none 4
Blind Solo (Sechserdreier) 4 4 4
No-Trump (Farbendreier) 5 5 5
Dreier 5 5 5
Piccolo semi-ouvert 6 none 6
Bettler semi-ouvert 6 none 6
Zwiccolo semi-ouvert none none 6
Farbeneiner 7 none 7
Einer 7 none 7
Triccolo ouvert 8 6 none
Zwiccolo ouvert 8 6 8
Piccolo ouvert 8 6 8
Open Beggar (Bettel ouvert) 8 8 8
No-Trump Solo (Farbensolo) 10 10 10
Grand Solo (Solodreier) 10 12 10
Bonus Skoty Somhany Wien
Pagat Ultimo 1 / 2 1 / 2 1 / 2
II Ultimo (Uhu) 2 / 4 2 / 4 2 / 4
III Ultimo (Kakadu) 3 / 6 3 / 6 3 / 6
IV Ultimo (Quapil) 4 / 8 4 / 8 4 / 8
Geier 5 / 10 5 / 10 none
King Ultimo 1 / 2 1 / 2 1 / 2
Trull 1 / 2 1 / 2 1 / 2
Four Kings (Vier Könige) 1 / 2 1 / 2 1 / 2
Moon capture (Mondfang) none / 2 none none
1. Sack none / 2 none none
2. Sack none / 2 none none
Valat 10 / 20 10 / 20 10 / 20

The Geier bonus means that the V wins the fifth-to-last trick, and a Geierrufer is a Bird Call that promises it. In a semi-ouvert contract only the Declarer lays the cards face up; a Piccolo semi-ouvert, Bettler semi-ouvert and Zwiccolo semi-ouvert are the Piccolo, the Beggar and the Twocolo played that way. In a Farbeneiner and an Einer the Declarer may take only one card from the talon. A Triccolo ouvert is a Threecolo in which all players lay their cards face up before the second lead. The comparison names Musso and Farbensechser without describing them.

Hopfgarten in Defereggen

Mair’s English sheet of the Hopfgarten tournament rules (April 2019) has no negative contracts except the Dodge Round, no no-trump contracts, no solo contracts and no Blind Solo. The German sheet of October 2025 prints the same values.

Contract Traditional value
the Call (Rufer) 1
Dodge Round (Fahren) 2 and 3 (see the payments below)
Bird Call with the Pagat (Pagat) 2 + 2
Bird Call with the II (Uhu) 2 + 4
Bird Call with the III (Maus) 2 + 6
Auf 5
Bonus Victory Points
Silent Announced
Pagat Ultimo 1 2
II Ultimo (Uhu) 2 4
III Ultimo (Maus) 3 6
Trull 1 2
Four Kings (Könige) 1 2
King Ultimo (König Ultimo) 2 3
Königfang 1 none
Moon capture (Mondfang) 10 20
Valat (Durch) ×2 ×4
10 Tarock none 1

In Hopfgarten the Call always needs at least one further announcement. The Auf is the Dreier played with the talon. It must be bid straight away, and nobody bids after it. A player with ten Taroks or more after the discard announces Ten Taroks (10 Tarock). Königfang scores when the called King is captured, except in a hand with King Ultimo. A Moon capture counts only when the Skus and the Moon belong to opponents. In a Valat, the contract and the announced bonuses are multiplied together.

The Dodge Round pays in four cases:

  • A player who wins no trick collects 6 Victory Points alone. Two such players get 3 Victory Points each.
  • The two with the most Card Points pay 3 Victory Points each to the two with the fewest.
  • The Bürgermeister, a player with 35 Card Points and one card, pays alone, 2 Victory Points to each other player. So does the Declarer, the Forehand who chose the Dodge Round, after taking the most Card Points.
  • A Declarer who is also the Bürgermeister pays 4 Victory Points to each opponent.

The tournament is played for money: 1 Victory Point is 10 cents.

Lungau

pagat.com describes the Königrufen of the Salzburger Lungau.

Contract Traditional value
Dodge Round (Fahren or Trischaken) 2
Blind Solo (Sechserdreier) 2 won, 4 lost
Bird Call with the Pagat (Rufer mit Spatz) 1 + 2
Bird Call with the II (Rufer mit Uhu) 1 + 2
Dreier (or Einischauer) 2
Bonus Victory Points
Silent Announced
Trull 1 2
Four Kings 1 2
Pagat Ultimo 1 2
II Ultimo (Uhu) 1 2
King Ultimo 1 2
Called King captured 1 none
Valat ×6 ×12

In the Blind Solo and the Dreier every bonus except the Valat counts double. A Declarer who surrenders (schleifen) pays 3 Victory Points to each opponent. In the Dodge Round each pair of players compares Card Points, and the player with more pays the player with fewer 2 Victory Points; a Kontra by one of the two doubles this to 4, by both to 8, and the next four deals are played for double stakes. pagat.com adds:

  • In private games some groups add the Grand Call (Solorufer) at 2, with every bonus counting double.
  • In some places the Grand Solo (Solodreier) is allowed as the highest bid, at 4.
  • In the Ramingstein tournament version, the Valat multiplies the contract alone by 16, or by 32 when announced, and no bonus counts.
  • A stake of 10 cents per Victory Point is typical.

Single values

  • pagat.com, main description: in the Dodge Round the two players with the most Card Points pay 1 Victory Point to the two with the fewest. A player who takes no trick is also paid 2 Victory Points by each of the other three, and a player who takes 36 Card Points or more, the Bürgermeister, also pays 2 Victory Points to each of the other three.
  • pagat.com reports a growing variant in which the Blind Solo may be bid only by the Forehand at the start of the bidding and scores higher, “similar to or a little less than” a Dreier, and still loses double.
  • Mair’s English cup rules for the 2019/2020 season print the course-rules values, with a Zwiccolo ouvert at 8 and a Moon capture at 1 silent and 2 announced. In their Dodge Round the two players with the most Card Points pay the other two 2 Victory Points each. A Bürgermeister (at least 35 Card Points and two cards) pays 2 Victory Points to each other player, and a player who takes no trick receives 2 Victory Points from each. If the Forehand has the most Card Points, the Forehand pays 2 Victory Points to each other player, or 4 Victory Points to each as the Bürgermeister.

Slovenian Tarok

The printed values follow John McLeod’s description at pagat.com. That page gives no second set of values, but it mentions rules that some groups add, without saying where. They are sorted here by what they change.

  • Piccolo (piccolo) is an extra contract: the Declarer must take one trick, no more and no fewer. It is worth 70 and ranks between Solo one and Beggar (berač).
  • The Declarer‘s side may win with 35 Card Points and one card, instead of 36 Card Points.
  • Hirškontra is a further doubling between Subkontra and Mordkontra.
  • A Dodge Round (klop) may be doubled with Kontra. Anyone who then takes over 35 Card Points loses 140, not 70. If nobody does, the 140 is lost by whoever said Kontra.
  • In a few groups a silent Pagat Ultimo, won or lost, is scored for its holder alone and not for the Partner. Some do this only when it fails.
  • Some groups force a Dodge Round each time a player’s score reaches a multiple of 500, such as 500, 1000 or 1500.
  • Groups that play for money often settle every hand at once. With a Partner, each loser pays one winner. A Declarer alone settles with all three others. Losing the Moon then costs 20 to each other player. In a Dodge Round, a winner collects 70 from each opponent and a loser pays each of them 70. Each open circle (radl) left at the end costs 100 to each other player.
  • At high stakes the distance may be paid exactly, not rounded to five. Losing the Moon then costs 21 instead of 20.
  • A group that keeps a written score for money can settle at the end. Each player pays or receives the gap between their own total and the average score.
  • In the three-player game, and above all for money, Card Point differences are often counted exactly and not rounded to five.

Hungarian Tarokk (Paskievics tarokk)

The printed values follow John McLeod’s Hungarian Tarokk (XX-hívás) page at pagat.com. He reports that several recent books raise some bonuses, but most players keep the traditional values. The table gives Victory Points, silent first and announced second.

Bonus Traditional Some recent books
Four Kings (négykirály) 1 / 2 2 / 4
Pagat Ultimo (pagátulti) 5 / 10 6 / 12
XXI-catch (XXI-fogás) 21 / 42 30 / 60

The same page lists these rules that some groups add.

  • When a Double game is announced or made, some groups score the contract for neither side unless it was kontra’d. An announced or completed Valat (volát) then also cancels a silent Double game and a contract without Kontra.
  • In another version, the Declarer‘s opponents score a silent Double game or Valat only if they said Kontra to the contract.
  • Some groups let a silent Trull count beside a Valat, while a silent Four Kings does not. Some never pay a silent Four Kings to a side that also scores a Double game.
  • Some groups multiply a silent Double game or Valat by the Kontra or Rekontra instead of adding it. With a silent Valat, a kontra’d contract then pays 6 times the contract (3 × 2), not 5 times. With a silent Double game, a rekontra’d contract pays 8 times (4 × 2), not 6 times (4 + 2).
  • After a Kontra to the contract, some groups make the Declarer‘s opponents take 48 Card Points, not 47, so a 47 to 47 split goes to the Declarer‘s side. Dr Endre Kovács gives this rule in his recent books, and pagat.com reports that a significant number of players use it.
  • With five players, an old rule that few groups still use makes a player who takes an honour from the talon pay the Dealer. The Skus costs 3 Victory Points, the XXI 2 and the Pagat 1. If the player has not paid by the time the next deal is complete, the previous Dealer may claim double.

Strawman (Strohmandeln)

The printed values are Markus Mair’s Tyrolean values (tarock.tirol, Strohmandeln, 2025): 2 for the Declarer Challenge, 3 to the opponent when it fails, 2 for the Dodge Round, the bonuses at 1 silent and 2 announced, and first to 11 wins. Mair gives no cheaper contract.

The cheaper contract

The cheaper variant comes from Fritz Beck (1972), as English and German Wikipedia report it. In a simple game, a hand that both players passed and then play out anyway, the winner scores 1. A Declarer Challenge won by the Declarer scores 2. The English Wikipedia table adds the third value of the set: a win by the Declarer’s opponent scores 3. The Traditional Scoring Tables mention the 1 / 2 pair.

English Wikipedia: Beck, Furr, Mayr and Sedlaczek

English Wikipedia sets three scoring systems side by side: Beck (1972), Furr (2009), and Mayr and Sedlaczek (2008). Mayr and Sedlaczek score as Furr does, except that they have no major win and no Two in a row.

Contract or bonus Beck (1972) Furr (2009)
Simple win (both passed) 1 2
Declarer Challenge won by the Declarer, 36 to 44 Card Points 2 3
Declarer Challenge won by the opponent, 35 to 43 Card Points 3 4
Major win by the Declarer, 45 Card Points or more none 4
Major win by the opponent, 44 Card Points or more none 5
Valat none 12
Two in a row (Rostopschin) none 1
IV Ultimo (Quapil) none 1
III Ultimo (Kakadu) none 1
II Ultimo (Uhu) none 1
Pagat Ultimo 1 1
Trull or Four Kings (Royal Trull), held in the hand 1 none
Trull or Four Kings (Royal Trull), captured in tricks none 1

A major win is a win with the higher number of Card Points that the row gives. The article adds that Bamberger (2011) follows Beck, except that there is no point for winning after both pass, because the cards are thrown in and dealt again. It also lists 1 for a Moon capture (Mondfang), when a player captures the Moon with the Skus, and it says that after a draw the next hand counts double.

wareh.org: the classic and the extended variant

wareh.org translates a German page from a Tarock website that grew out of the research for Das Große Tarockbuch by Wolfgang Mayr and Robert Sedlaczek. It gives two sets, a classic variant and an extended variant, “which we ourselves play”.

Contract or bonus Classic variant Extended variant
Simple game, won or lost 2 1
Declarer Challenge, won 3 3
Declarer Challenge, lost 4 4
Simple game, winner with at least 45 Card Points none 2
Declarer Challenge, Declarer with at least 45 Card Points none 4
Declarer Challenge, Declarer with less than 26 Card Points none 5
Valat, silent 12 12
Two in a row (Rostopschin) none 1
III Ultimo (Kakadu), silent none 1
II Ultimo (Uhu), silent none 1
Pagat Ultimo, silent 1 1
Trull or Four Kings, held in the hand and announced 1 none
Trull or Four Kings, captured in tricks, silent none 1

A simple game is a hand that nobody has undertaken; in the classic variant it is worth 2 whether won or lost. A lost Declarer Challenge pays the opponent. The extended variant also has the Grammel-Punkt (Grand Point): a player who takes at least 45 Card Points receives a bonus of 1, unless the opponent has at least 26 Card Points. wareh.org adds:

  • In the classic variant the Pagat Ultimo can only be played silently.
  • After a draw, the next round of two hands counts double; this double round is called Nullrunde.
  • A misdeal costs 1, or 2 during a doubled round.
  • Doubling is not advisable, unless the group decides that a Declarer can be doubled.

German Wikipedia: Beck

The German Wikipedia article follows Fritz Beck (1972) for its rules and gives these values:

  • 1 for a won hand that nobody undertook; after both players pass, the cards are normally dealt again, but the players may agree to play the hand at half value.
  • 2 for a won hand that a player undertook, the Declarer Challenge.
  • 2 for announcing a Trull or a Königstrull (all four Kings) held in the hand.
  • 2 for the Pagat played as the last card, and, where the group plays it, 2 for the II played as the second-to-last card.
  • 2 for the captured Moon, to the player who takes it with the Skus.

Dappen

The printed values are the Furtwangen full game, 1 cent per Card Point, as pagat.com describes it from the Klausmann family. pagat.com gives these other versions, each attributed to its village and informant.

Furtwangen: the half game

Furtwangen also plays for half stakes, at ½ cent per Card Point. Round the losing side’s distance from 40 Card Points to the nearest 10, then halve it. A distance under 5, or one ending in 5, rounds up. A side that loses with 28 Card Points is 12 short, which rounds to 10 and pays 5 cents.

Losing side’s Card Points 0–5 6–15 16–25 26–39
Dapp, or a Solo that is lost, in cents 20 15 10 5
Dapp + Challenge, or a Solo that is won, in cents 40 30 20 10

The Ultimos (Ulti) may be halved too: 5 cents for the III Ultimo, 10 for the II Ultimo and 15 for the Pagat Ultimo. A group may also halve only the stakes or only the Ultimos. The Klausmann family evening on pagat.com halved both.

When two players have bid and the Dapper wins a march, the other bidder usually pays it for the whole team: 4 euros with six players, 4.80 euros with seven. Some groups let that bidder pay half.

Breitnau

Willi Wangler’s Breitnau version from his youth has no Ultimos. Multiply the losing side’s distance from 40 Card Points by the contract’s factor and round up to the next 10. The Dapper pays or collects that many cents per opponent.

Contract Factor
Dapp ×1
Dapp + Challenge (Strecken) ×2
Solo, won or lost ×2
Push (Stupfen) ×3

Buchenbach

Thomas Eckmann, originally from Buchenbach, gave these rules for six players. The payment works as in Breitnau, with these factors:

Contract Factor
Solo, won by the Dapper ×1
Solo, lost by the Dapper ×2
Strecken ×2
Dapp ×1
One King (Ein Hannes) ×2
Two Kings (Zwei Hannes) ×3
Goat (Geiß) ×4

In Buchenbach, Strecken is a later player’s bid over a Solo in the first bidding round, which ends the bidding and takes the Dapp.

Other villages and an early relative

In Schollach (Alois Schuler) nobody played Ultimos. In Waldau (Oskar Schmitt) the Pagat was the only Ultimo card.

pagat.com also presents Mainz Carneval Tarot as probably an early relative of Dappen. It is known from a handwritten description on a pack inscribed “Mainzer Carneval 1839”. There a hand is worth 1, plus 1 for every full 5 Card Points by which the losers fall short of 35. With 32 Card Points the losers make it worth 1, with 27 worth 2, and with 17 worth 4.

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