Negerkung

[Coolhat]

We have "Svarte Petter", which is probably the same. I've forgotten the rules though.

It´s familiar here in Finland too. "Musta Pekka" or "Svarte Petter" refers simply to the jack of spades.

 

[Toke]

a @negerkonge@ is mostly a comic character.
The card one is sorteper, I don=t know the game.

I will be busy finding a danish keyboard for ubunto

 

[Ove]

a @negerkonge@ is mostly a comic character.
The card one is sorteper, I don=t know the game.

I will be busy finding a danish keyboard for ubunto

It is a card game where you have to get rid of one of the cards. I don't remember the precise rules but the one sitting with "Black Peter" (Sorteper) in the end looses. Sorta like the black queen of spades in "Hearts". It has also become an expression for the one sitting with the blame in shady deals (fall guy?)

 

[Oliver]

Just for clarification: The "children card game" called schwarzer Peter actually refers to a white bandits [Schinderhannes] partner, Johann Peter Petri, whose nick at the time was "alter Schwarzepeter" [old Black Peter]. It obviously has nothing to do with a Negerkung whatsoever.

 

[Simon39759]

Indeed, black may often refer to the completion, or the hair-colour, rather than the race, especially in pre-20th century Europe where black (of African-origin) people were a exceeding rarity.