I’ve got a new addiction. XSkat works in my phone, so I can crank out couple of skat deals in just a minute or two. Excellent! I’ve wanted to learn skat, but getting people to play it is difficult and games with all newbies are always a bit different. Now I can play against tough opponents and what’s most important, I can get hundreds of deals worth of experience in a very short time. After all, getting that experience is the best way to learn what’s a playable hand and what’s not.

I suck, right now (and the computer opponents seem to play a solid game). After 50 or so deals, I was about thousand points in the red, while one of my opponents had more than thousand points. At that point I cleared the scores in disgust…