The PackThe normal 52-card pack is stripped of all cards except the A, K, Q, J, ten, and 9 of every suit, creating a total of 24 cards.
Rank of CardsA (high), ten, K, Q, J, 9.
The DealDeal six cards each, 3 at a time, starting with your opponent. The thirteenth card is turned up for trump and laid beside undealt cards, which become the stock.
Object of the GameThe objective is to score 66 points as follows:
Marriage in trumps (K, Q announced) forty
Marriage in any other suit (K, Q announced) 20
Each and every ace (taken in on tricks) eleven
Every 10 (taken in on tricks) ten
Each and every king (taken in on tricks) 4
Every single queen (taken in on tricks) 3
Each jack (taken in on tricks) two
Winning final trick 10
The PlayThe non-dealer leads initial. No 1 is obligated to stick to suit. The larger card of the suit led, or a trump played to a plain-suit lead, wins the trick. The winner of the trick draws the prime card of the stock (the opponent taking the next card), and leads for the subsequent trick.
Both player holding the 9 of trumps might exchange it for a higher trump card at any time, supplied they have previously won a trick, unless the 9 is the last card in the stock. A “marriage” is announced by showing the proper king and queen and leading one of people cards. Marriages may be announced only when a single of the two cards is played – unless a player by displaying a marriage tends to make his score 66 or much more.
The non-dealer may announce a marriage on their first lead and score it after he wins a trick.
Right after the stock is exhausted or closed, the non-leader on every single trick must stick to suit if feasible. Marriages may even now be scored.
ClosingEither player may possibly close (end the game), when they have the lead, both just before or following drawing, by turning down the trump card. Thereafter, no cards are drawn, and the last trick does not score ten factors.
If both player announces in the course of perform that their score is 66 or a lot more, the perform instantly stops and the game is “closed.
How to Preserve ScoreThe player who very first reaches 66 scores one game level. If he reaches 66 ahead of the opponent will get 33 (a “schneider”), he scores 2 game points if prior to the opponent gets a trick (a “schwarz”), he scores 3 game factors. If neither player scores 66, or each and every has scored 66 or far more without having announcing it, no one particular scores in that hand and 1 game level is extra to the score of the winner of the up coming hand.
If a player “closing” will get 66 or more, he scores the same as if the game had been played out. If the player fails, the opponent scores two factors. If a player closes before his opponent has taken a trick, but fails to score 66, the opponent scores three factors.
The player who scores seven game points 1st, wins.