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by yread 1490 days ago
Czechs play a lot of Mariáš https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari%C3%A1%C5%A1 it's in some ways similar to bridge specifically the Licitovaný mariáš variant:

There is ordered bidding that often conveys information, further information can be conveyed by playing style (if you hold an advantagous card in betl you use the cards in descending order, otherwise you use descending order) and lots of counting and memorization is involved. Both for the current game as for the next ones - cards are not shuffled only cut - so skillful players can reconstruct approximately who has what cards based on the previous game.

On the other hand it's most often played in a loud pub with a beer in hand so lots of mistakes are made.

It's also referenced frequently in literature esp. from 1st half of 20th century (Hasek, Polacek)