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Thousand is an Eastern European trick-taking game for three players in which trump marriages and captured card values are scored, with the first player to reach 1000 points winning.

Tute is a Spanish trick-taking game for two to four players using a 40-card Spanish deck, with bonus points for holding both the king and knight of the trump suit.

This regional variant of Sechsundsechzig (Sixty-Six) adapts the core Central European two-player trump game—where players race to reach 66 points via tricks and marriage declarations—to local rules and deck conventions.

Binokel is a German trick-taking and meld game originating in Württemberg, played with a double 24-card deck, and is a close relative of the American game Pinochle.

Two-hand Pinochle is a two-player adaptation of the American meld-and-trick game Pinochle, using a 48-card deck with alternating draw-and-meld phases before tricks.

Snapszer is a Hungarian two-player trick-taking game using a 20-card deck, similar to Klaberjass, in which players also score for trump marriages formed by a king–queen pair.

Brisque is a historical French trick-taking game considered an ancestor of Belote, notable for assigning high point values to the ace and ten of each suit.

Pangguingue, also known as Pan, is a Filipino card game played with eight 40-card Spanish-suited decks, historically popular in American Southwest casinos and card rooms.