Marjapussi

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Marjapussi

Bondtolva, Huutopussi
Marriage of King and Queen
Origin	Finland
Type	Trick-taking
Players	4
Cards	36 (24-36 in variants)
Deck	French
Play	Clockwise
Card rank (highest first)	A 10 K Q J 9 8 7 6
Related games
Bezique, Pinochle, Mariage

Marjapussi (Bag of Berries) is a traditional Finnish partnerships trick taking game. The speciality of Marjapussi is that the trump suit is determined in the middle of the play by declaring a marriage (a king and a queen of a same suit). To win a game, a partnership must get exactly twelve points. A very similar game evidently related to Sixty-six, but with a curious resonance of All Fours is played in Sweden under the name Bondtolva, Farmer's Dozen.^[1]

Later, Marjapussi evolved into Huutopussi (Auction Bag), which involves bidding. The exact winning condition was dropped, but the trump determining process remained. Actually, in Huutopussi the trump suit may even change in the middle of the play if players declare further marriages.

Rules of the four-handed partnership games[]

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The details of rules in both Marjapussi and Huutopussi vary significantly, and the choice of the rulesets presented below is rather arbitrary. See Variants section about how the rules can vary.

Marjapussi is a trick taking game for four players in fixed partnerships. The partners sit opposite to each other. Marjapussi is played with a deck of 36 cards, remove the cards 2-5 from the standard deck. The order of cards is Ace (highest), ten, king, queen, jack, nine, eight, seven, six (lowest). That is, the order is otherwise normal except that a ten beats a king, a queen and a jack. All cards are dealt so that everyone gets 9 cards.

Notes[]

• Kurki-Suonio, Ilmo, MMM Korttipelikirja, Otava, 1962
• Marjapussi according to www.korttipelit.net (in Finnish)
• Ranta, Pekka, Marjapussissa Porvooseen, WSOY 1993
• Huutopussi according to www.lautapelaaja.net (in Finnish)
• Parlett, David, A-Z of Card Games, Oxford University Press 2004 (The rules of Bondtolva)
• Huutopussi according to Matrix ry (in Finnish)
• Kokko, Petri, Pelien parhaat, WSOY 1999 (The rules of Avomarjapussi)

References[]

External links[]

• McLeod, John, ed., Marjapussi, Card Games Website