page_title: Swiss playing cards
hierarchical_section_title: Swiss playing cards
caption_attribution_description: English: Distribution of French (blue) Swiss playing cards (orange) in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Not shown are small pockets where Italian playing cards are used.
context_page_description: Parts of Swiss German speaking Switzerland have their own deck of playing cards. They are mostly used for Jass, the "national card game" of Switzerland. The deck is related to the various German playing cards. Within Switzerland, these decks are called German or Swiss German cards.
  Distribution of the Swiss deck is roughly east of the Brünig-Napf-Reuss line, in Schaffhausen, St. Gallen, Appenzell, Thurgau, Glarus, Zürich, all of Central Switzerland and the eastern part of Aargau.
context_section_description: Parts of Swiss German speaking Switzerland have their own deck of playing cards. They are mostly used for Jass, the "national card game" of Switzerland. The deck is related to the various German playing cards. Within Switzerland, these decks are called German or Swiss German cards. 
  Distribution of the Swiss deck is roughly east of the Brünig-Napf-Reuss line, in  Schaffhausen, St. Gallen (and in adjacent Liechtenstein), Appenzell, Thurgau, Glarus, Zürich, all of Central Switzerland and the eastern part of Aargau.
caption: Distribution of French (blue) and Swiss (orange) playing cards in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
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