Welcome to SkatTrainer (v1.0.9)

This program helps you improve your card memorization abilities. It is tailored to the game of skat. It has been designed for the Nokia N900 smartphone, but can be played on every HTML-5 capable browser.

At the start of each game, a subset of cards will be placed into your hand. Then, cards will be shown one by one. They are drawn from your hand (indicated by an arrow) or from the other hands. After showing the cards you are asked to choose the cards that you haven't seen yet. This is indicated by the "Next" button changing into the "Result" button.

To start, pick the card set you want to memorize:

Trumps

11 cards (7,8,9,Queen,King,Ten,Ace,Jacks) in a random trump suit which is indicated by a suit symbol in the lower left corner.
2-4 cards will be left to guess.

T.+High

11 trump cards + other high cards (Tens,Aces).
3-5 cards will be left to guess.

All

All 32 cards.
4-6 cards will be left to guess.

Click

Program waits for click on "Next" or canvas

1,2,3 sec

Program waits that long before presenting the next card. In addition, the program waits for 5 seconds after showing the initial hand.

English/4

French deck, English letters, 4 colors

English/2

French deck, English letters, 2 colors

German/4

French deck, German letters, 4 colors

German/2

French deck, German letters, 2 colors

German/G

German deck, German letters

To start a new game, click on "New"

After presenting all cards, a list of cards will appear for you to choose from. Select and de-select cards by clicking on them. When done click "Result". The program will then evaluate your selection.

Green border

Card was guessed right.

Red border

Card was guessed wrong.

Cyan border

Card you missed.

Have fun!

This program is free software licensed under GPLv3 (c) 2009 Michael Buro. It was developed on three afternoons as the author's first application for his new shiny N900 smartphone which has a screen resolution of 800x480.