Cego

Cego (Badishes Tarock), also called Ceco, from the Latin "Caecus" or "blind", is a trick-taking card game played mainly in Baden, Schwarzwald, and Lake Constance, in Switzerland. The game is similar to French tarot and Austrian Tarock. It is distinguished by a large Skat, or Talon, called "the Blind".

Deck

Cego decks come in two patterns.

The F.X. Schmid Cego deck is a cross between the Industrie und Glück and Tarot Nouveau decks. The 54 cards in Cego consist of 22 trumps, 16 face cards (images) and 16 (pip cards) empty cards. 21 of the trumps cards are numbered from one to twenty-one in Arabic numerals found in centered indices. The highest trump is not numbered. It shows a gleeman and is called the Stieß or G'stieß (Fool). Trumps depict genre scenes by Adrian Ludwig Richter; a concept similar to Tarot Nouveau trumps.

The ASS Altenburger Cego deck is an animal tarot deck called Adler-Cego (Eagle Cego). Trumps 2 to 21 depict real and fictional animals with a pink box on the top of the cards depicting its rank. Despite the name, eagles do not appear in any of the cards. The face cards are similar to the local German-suited Württemberg pattern. When ASS Altenburger bought F.X. Schmid, they discontinued the Schmid deck. The only company that still produce the Schmid pattern is Ganter Brewery.

Lechința

Lechința (German: Lechnitz; Hungarian: Szászlekence) is a commune in Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania. It is composed of seven villages: Bungard, Chiraleș, Lechința, Sângeorzu Nou, Sâniacob, Țigău and Vermeș.

At the 2011 census, 72% of inhabitants were Romanians, 19.2% Roma, 8.4% Hungarians and 0.2% Germans.

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