Around 1800, "Bruus'baart" was the best known card game in the north German city port of Hamburg, so much so that it was described in 1804 as "Hamburg's national game"_ (1804), p. 310. and a song was written in honour of it that conveys something of the rowdy atmosphere of the game and confirms that signalling was an integral part of it._ (1800). In the 1830s and 1840s it was played in the town of Schleswig and in the 1870s in Eckernförde. It is also recorded in Bergedorf and the state of Mecklenburg.Walter (1912), p. 131.
