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Cucumber is a north European card game of Swedish origin for two or more players. The goal of the game is to avoid taking the last trick. David Parlett describes it as a "delightful Baltic gambling game". History and distribution According to John McLeod, the game may have originated in the 1940s as a way of playing Krypkille with a standard 52-card pack as opposed to the traditional Swedish Kille cards. Today the game is played in different national variants under different names: as Agurk in Denmark, Gurka in Norway and Sweden, Ogórek in Poland, Kurkku and Mätäpesä in Finland, and Gúrka in Iceland. Cards Cucumber is played with a regular pack of French-suited playing cards without the Jokers. The Ace is the highest, the Deuce, the lowest card. Suits are irrelevant. Rules The basic Danish rules are as follows:

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Overview

Cucumber is a north European card game of Swedish origin for two or more players. The goal of the game is to avoid taking the last trick. David Parlett describes it as a "delightful Baltic gambling game". History and distribution According to John McLeod, the game may have originated in the 1940s as a way of playing Krypkille with a standard 52-card pack as opposed to the traditional Swedish Kille cards. Today the game is played in different national variants under different names: as Agurk in Denmark, Gurka in Norway and Sweden, Ogórek in Poland, Kurkku and Mätäpesä in Finland, and Gúrka in Iceland. Cards Cucumber is played with a regular pack of French-suited playing cards without the Jokers. The Ace is the highest, the Deuce, the lowest card. Suits are irrelevant. Rules The basic Danish rules are as follows:

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).