Smear is a trick-taking card game of the All Fours group, similar to Pitch or Setback. Several slightly different versions are played in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and also in Ontario, Canada. It is also known as Schmier. It is highly likely that the name is related to the German word schmieren, which is used in point-trick games such as Skat for the technique of discarding a high-value card on a trick which your partner is winning.

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  • Smear is a trick-taking card game of the All Fours group, similar to Pitch or Setback. Several slightly different versions are played in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and also in Ontario, Canada. It is also known as Schmier. It is highly likely that the name is related to the German word schmieren, which is used in point-trick games such as Skat for the technique of discarding a high-value card on a trick which your partner is winning. The name might perhaps be connected to the fact that a high-scoring card may be discarded in a trick won by the player's partner, like in Pinochle, or even to "smudge," which is the highest bid in some forms of Pitch.
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  • Schmeir
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  • Anglo-American
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  • 52-card
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  • Clockwise
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  • 2-4
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  • Smear
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  • Smear is a trick-taking card game of the All Fours group, similar to Pitch or Setback. Several slightly different versions are played in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and also in Ontario, Canada. It is also known as Schmier. It is highly likely that the name is related to the German word schmieren, which is used in point-trick games such as Skat for the technique of discarding a high-value card on a trick which your partner is winning.
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  • Smear (card game)
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