Software Board-Games - Tommy's Clobby
Assault Trooper
Genre: Board Game
Production: by Tommy's Toys
Publication date: 1993
Description:
THE GAME OF CLOBBY, CLOB, CLAB, KLOB, KLAB, KALABER, KALABRIASZ OR KLABERJASS (PROUNOUNCED KLOBIOSH) IS POPULAR IN EUROPE, WHERE THERE IS A DIFFERENT VERSIONFOR PRACTICALLY EVERY COUNTRY -- BELOTE IN FRANCE, ALSOS IN HUNGARY, KLAVERJASS IN THE NETHERLANDS.
JASS (PRONOUNCED YASS) IS GERMAN FOR JACK, AND KLABER FOR CLUBS.
IN THIS GAME THE JACK OF TRUMPS IS CALLED THE JASS, AND THE NINE OF TRUMPS IS CALLED THE MENEL.
SOMETIMES JASS IS SPELLED JASZ -- WE KNOW, YOU'RE CHUCKLING ABOUT THE MANY WAYS TO AVOID COMING OUT AND SAYING JACKJASS -- HA HA! PRIOR TO THE ADVENT OF GIN RUMMY, THIS WAS THE MOST POPULAR 2-PLAYER GAME AMONG THE "GENTRY", THAT IS, THOSE WITH MONEY TO THROW AWAY (HA).