The deck contains 54 cards. They are divided into 4 color suits with 8 cards per suit and one tarock suit with 22 cards. The color suits are equal in value. The tarock cards are a permanent suit of trumps over trumping the other suits normally.

The red color suits Diamonds and Hearts are containing the following cards ordered from the highest to the lowest value:

• King, Queen, Knight, Jack, One, Two, Three, and Four.

The black color suits Clubs and Spades are containing the following cards ordered from the highest to the lowest value:

• King, Queen, Knight, Jack, Ten, Nine, Eight, and Seven.

The 22 tarock cards are labeled by roman numerals from XXII down to I. The numerals define the rank.

The three high score tarock cards XXII, XXI, and I are named Trula and a single card of them is named a Trula Piece (Table 27):

Card	Name
XXII	Excuse
XXI	Moon
I	Pagat

Table 27: Trula Pieces

The tarock cards I, II, III, and IIII are named Better Pieces. In a positive tarock game, they can be announced as winners of one of the last tricks (Table 28):

The desired statistics will be displayed. It shows your success record in calendar form.

Card	Name	Announcement
I	Pagat	Pagat takes the last trick.
II	Owl	Uhu penultimo takes the second to the last trick
III	Pelican	Pelican ante penultimo takes the third to the last trick.
IV/IIII	Quapil	Quapil ante-ante penultimo takes the fourth to the last trick. Quapil is considered only if the associated game option is selected.

Table 28: Petter Pieces

With the exception of the color games, tarock always overtrumps color suits. In a color game in contrast, tarock functions as the fifth color suit and does not overtrump color suits. Within the same suit, the higher ranked card overtrumps the lower ranked card. A special exception from this rule in tarock games is:

• If Excuse (XXII), Moon (XXI), and Pagat (I) concur in the same trick, the Pagat wins the trick.

The scoring of the cards is different from the ranking at trick winning. So has the lowest tarock - the Pagat- one of the highest scoring value for example. There are also two different card scorings:

• 1/3 is the more common but more complicated card scroring:
  Here the calculation is made in points and bits, where one point corresponds to three bits. The counting of the tricks per hand is therefore somewhat complicated. The following procedure is used when the trick scores are counted manually: Take three cards and accumulate the next higher integer point values only. From the sum of points, subtract two points. These two points deduction are equal to the six bits, which must be subtracted from the next higher integer point values of the three cards. Programmatically, it is easier of course to count the trick scores in bits and to divide the sum by three.
• 1/1 is less common, but much simpler: Here the lowest value cards get 1 point and the next higher value cards get 1 point more.

The following table gives the card values for the two different card scores:

Playing Cards	1/3			1/1
	Points/ Bits	Conversion	in Bits	Points
Kings, Excuse (XXII), Moon (XXI) and Pagat (I)	5/-2	5 * 3 - 2	13	5
Queens	4/-2	4 * 3 - 2	10	4
Knights	3/-2	3 * 3 - 2	7	3
Jacks	2/-2	2 * 3 - 2	4	2
all other cards	1/-2	1 * 3 - 2	1	1

Table 3: Card Scoring in Points and Bits