Nice review, sir. Consider also this trick-taker: Sticheln. In Sticheln, everyone chooses a suit in their hand that will be their 'pain' suit. Simultaneously before play begins, players reveal their pain suit. During play, players try to avoid collecting cards in their pain suit because cards in one's pain suit score as negative points at face value. Cards collected that are not in one's pain suit score as a single positive point. Most points wins.