Indeed, sitting down to a game of Sheepshead often involves negotiating table rules, much like poker. I have corrected a couple of typos and added a few comments of my own in square brackets and italics.Īccording to Hoyle (cl963), 'schafkopf' (German for sheepshead) is 'an old Middle European game' which has 'continued to be played under a variety of rules'. The text below is more or less a copy of Eric Bushnell's sheepshead page (version of 20th Sep 1995), which was formerly available at but disappeared in late 1997 and is reproduced here with his permission.

Sheepshead, according to Hoyle, Bushnell, and most of Milwaukee, WI Riso Entertainment have produced a special simplified Sheepshead deck called Boon in which trumps are gold, numbered from 1 to 14, the other suits are red, green and blue, numbered from 1 to 6, and each card has its point value printed on it. The site (archive copy), which includes Dan Osborne's rules and other information and resources.Įric Bushnell's Sheepshead Page, which described several forms of Sheepshead played in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, disappeared from the web for a while, but is now reproduced below.An archive copy of Stephen Blessing's former Sheepshead Page, with rules for five player Sheepshead.Rules for other forms of Sheepshead can be found at:

In his book Wergin on Skat and Sheepshead (1975), Joe Wergin describes varieties of Sheepshead for three, four and five players. Sheepshead is the American form of the German game Schafkopf.

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