An Anlternation for card friends. The more players the funnier to "poch". Game board in hight quality.

The German game of Poch (also called Pochen and Pochspielen) originated in the early 15th century. More technically complicated than most games, Poch required a circular board with eight distinct compartments labeled Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Ten, Marriage, Sequence, and Poch. During the first round of action, players "dressed the board" by placing chips into seven of the eight compartments before being dealt five cards apiece. The next card turned over determined the trump suit. The player holding the king and queen of that suit was sure to win the Marriage compartment, for example.
In the next round, players vied to have – or to represent – the best combination of cards. Quartets were the highest-ranked grouping, followed by triplets, then pairs, with ties broken by the highest side card. But a player with no pair at all could still win the second round by betting enough to chase away all opponents. "Ich poche," he would mutter (meaning "I bash" or "I pulverize"), followed by the amount he was betting. His opponents could match his bet, raise it, or pass. If one or more opponents matched him, the first bettor had the option of raising, in a kind of Stuttgart Straddle.
We now see that even before the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria sailed west from Spain, heading for India under a Genoese admiral funded by the royal Castilian risk-takers Ferdinand and Isabella, the introduction of kickers and fluxes and draws, not to mention the pulverizing of strong hands by weak ones, were all helping to prepare the card player's mindset for what became American poker.

Made of rubber wood, measures 24.5x24.5x1.8cm, each set is packaged in color box.