The oldest and best known card game around here. The word is one of those without nominative case, it's „таблића“, i.e. always in genitive. Bread and cheese are often such nouns.
It's played with two or four players, when the opposite sitting pairs are teams. Based on playing cards on the "talon" (the cards on the table), where everyone gets six dealt and four laid on the talon initially, then playing one at a time, trying to take as many off the talon as possible. When the six cards are played, there's a redeal (one if four players, three if two players). The rules of taking are rather simple - any card of the same value, or a group of cards which add to that value, can be taken. Scoring is also simple: any card taken counts as one if it's an ace, ten or has a picture (i.e. J, Q, K), plus the two of clubs also counts, and the ten of diamonds counts as two. This makes a total of 25 possible points per deal, but there is an additional point (called "tabla", hence the name of the game) when one cleans the talon. Game ends when one side earns 101.
My parents played hundreds of matches of this. They'd usually cross-couple, so mom would pair with uncle Staja and dad with tetka on vacations or when they visited; at home they'd pair with Đuđa and her husband. There were also other friends who'd be in it for a while. Dad kept all the scores, with dates, and issued annual statistics.
18-I-2020 - 14-VII-2026