Schneider (cards)  Schneider is a term used in some card games for a particularly low card point score that results in boosting an opponent's game score. Its natural extension is Schwarz, used of a player who loses the game without taking a single trick. The term "Schneider" ("tailor") is German and comes from the medieval guild of tailors. Tailoring was a trade often associated with financial difficulties. For example, the pejorative remark "a tailor doesn't weigh more than 30 lots", alluding to a tailor being underweight, was a common saying. People who were financially better off were thus "out of "Schneider"" i.e. "off the hook". In the 19th century, the term was also used by student fraternities. The drinking game "Lustig, meine Sieben", in which a pair of scissors was drawn on the table if one scored under 30 points, called the loser of the game a "tailor", who then had to drink twice the amount. In the wake of this the term was probably transferred to the then still relatively new game of Skat, which spread quickly, especially among Thuringian and Saxon students. The colloquial proverb from Austria "To give someone a "Schneider" means to defeat an opponent without their scoring. It may be applied to any sport or game, but the term is mainly used in the card game of Schnapsen or in curling. In certain card games, a player or partnership that achieves less than half the required card points from their tricks to win the hand, is described as "Schneider". Thy usually lose double the normal game points. In Skat there is a total of 120 card points in play and therefore a player needs at least 61 points to win the game. If one player scores 90 points or more (i. e. their opponent has 30 or fewer points), then the player has played their opponent "Schneider" and is credited with a higher game score. An extension of "Schneider" is "Schwarz". This is where all the tricks are won by one player or partnership and they are given an even higher game score. In order to achieve "Schwarz", the opponent or opponents must not have won any tricks at all, even those which do not score any card points. In "Hand" games where the skat (the two cards in the talon or stock) is not picked up, the declarer may bid on "Schneider" and "Schwarz".