Round 2
Same cards, second hand
- Deal
- Bid
- Play
- Count
- Score
Get the same ten cards for your seat.
The same hands again
Put the same four hands together again. Do not shuffle and deal: sort the forty cards back into the hands shown under The Cards.
- Deal
- Bid
- Play
- Count
- Score
Bid in turn, starting with the Forehand.
First lap
1 holds the Call and bids nothing higher
2 “No-Trump.”
3 “Pass.”
4 “Pass.”
Second lap
5 “Pass.”
- 2 Player 2 names No-Trump, a higher contract than the Call.
- 5 Player 1 was outbid and has another turn, and passes.
Player 2 now plays the contract No-Trump and is the Declarer.
One rule flips: Taroks stop being trumps
In No-Trump the Taroks lose their trump power and play as an ordinary fifth suit. Nothing trumps anything: the highest card of the led suit takes the trick, every trick.
In No-Trump the rules for following change too. If you are void in the led color suit, you must play a card of another color suit, and you may play a Tarok to a color lead only when you hold no color card at all. While you hold any color card, you must lead a color card.
P2 “No-Trump.”
What is Player 2’s plan? Player 2 plans to win tricks with Kings and Queens, which no Tarok can beat in No-Trump, and believes the hand is strong enough: the K
, the Q and the K
are sure winners.
In No-Trump there are no teams: Player 2 plays alone against the other three and needs 45 Card Points.
- Deal
- Bid
- Play
- Count
- Score
Play the hand, trick by trick.
Round 2 · Trick 1
- P1 leads
- P2 wins
P3
P4
Player 2 wins and captures 11 CP.
P2 took the trick and leads next.
Player 3 is void in Clubs but still holds color cards, so Player 3 must play one of them.
Round 2 · Trick 2
P2 leads and wins
P3
P4
P1
Player 2 wins and captures 10 CP.
P2 took the trick and leads next.
Round 2 · Trick 3
P2 leads and wins
P3
P4
P1
Player 2 wins and captures 12 CP.
P2 took the trick and leads next.
Round 2 · Trick 4
P2 leads
P3 wins
P4
P1
Player 3 wins and captures 16 CP.
P3 took the trick and leads next.
Round 2 · Trick 5
- P3 leads
- P4 wins
P1
P2
Player 4 wins and captures 4 CP.
P4 took the trick and leads next.
Player 3 has no color cards left, so Player 3 may lead a Tarok.
Round 2 · Trick 6
P4 leads
P1
P2
P3 wins
Player 3 wins and captures 8 CP.
P3 took the trick and leads next.
Round 2 · Trick 7
P3 leads and wins
P4
P1
P2
Player 3 wins and captures 4 CP.
P3 took the trick and leads next.
Round 2 · Trick 8
P3 leads
P4 wins
P1
P2
Player 4 wins and captures 5 CP.
P4 took the trick and leads next.
Round 2 · Trick 9
P4 leads
P1 wins
P2
P3
Player 1 wins and captures 7 CP.
P1 took the trick and leads next.
A Tarok was led, and the Skus is Player 1’s last Tarok, so Player 1 must play it.
Round 2 · Trick 10
P1 leads and wins
P2
P3
P4
Player 1 wins and captures 11 CP.
P1 took the trick .
In No-Trump the Taroks play as an ordinary fifth suit, so the Pagat goes to Player 1 with the rest of the trick.
Round 2 · The Score
Count it the same way
The three Defenders, Players 1, 3 and 4, pool their captured piles. Count each pile in the same three steps.
How to count
Player 2’s pile holds three of the empty four: the 1
, the 1 and the 10
. Set them aside as you count.
9cards kept, the base
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 3
- 2
- 2
- 4
- 2
- 3
+ 24pips among them
9 + 24 = 33of 88 in the deck
This is Player 2’s pile.
This pile holds one of the empty four, the 10. Set it aside as you count.
27cards kept, the base
- 3
- 4
- 4
- 1
- 4
- 1
- 4
- 2
- 1
- 4
+ 28pips among them
27 + 28 = 55of 88 in the deck
This is the pile of Players 1, 3 and 4.
Player 2 needed 45 Card Points and has 33, so the No-Trump fails. The No-Trump is worth 4 Victory Points, and Players 1, 3 and 4 won the hand, so each of them scores 4 Victory Points.
Fill in the Round 2 row
- Write the Declarer and the contract on the hand’s top line: Player 2, No-Trump.
- CONTRACT: Players 1, 3 and 4 each score 4 Victory Points; write a 0 for Player 2.
- BONUS: write a 0 in all four boxes; nobody scored a bonus.