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Sedma is a Czech 4-card trick-and-draw game played by four players in fixed partnerships with a 32-card Bohemian-pattern pack. Card suits do not play a role in this game, and there is no ranking order. A trick is won by the last player to play a card of the same rank as the card led.

The card game gives its name to the ‘Sedma group’ which includes closely related games such as the Finnish Ristikontra, the Yugoslavian Sedmice, the Romanian Șeptică, the Hungarian Zsírozás (also Zsíros or Zsír), the Bavarian Lusti-Kartl’n, the German Schmierer and the possibly Polish Hola. These games have been described as highly unusual members of the ace–ten family, found only in Central and Eastern Europe.^[1]: 268

Normally a 32-card, German-suited, Bohemian-pattern pack is used; these are obtainable online. However, as in other games played with this pack it can be replaced by other German-suited cards, a French-suited Piquet pack comprising 32 cards from Ace to Seven in each suit. In extremis, a standard 52-card pack may be used from which 2s to 6s are removed.

The most powerful cards in the game are the Sevens because they beat all other cards; however, the only counting cards are Aces and Tens, which are worth 10 points each.^[2] This schedule appears^[3]: 257 to be a simplification of the usual schedule in ace–ten card games used, for example, by Ristikontra. Together with the 10 points awarded for winning the last trick, there are 90 points in a deal. The object is to win more than half of them, i.e. at least 50 points.^{[3]: 257ff [4]: 321 [5]: 99 [6]}