contract, the trump cards and/or to be able to pick up a set of face-down cards known variously, for example, as the talon, skat, dabb. Bidding is one of only...

protocol that the bidding cards stay revealed until the first playing card is tabled, after which point the bidding cards are put away. Bidding pads are an...

the history of card games: bidding. Other common characteristics of this family are 3 matadors and a talon of undealt cards. Boston group. Games of the...

bidding preference over the rest, as in Boston, Préférence or Fipsen. prial A 'pair royal'. A set of three cards of the same rank. protection. Cards that...

the player bidding nil passes one or two of their cards (depending on the variant rules) to their partner and receives an equal number of cards back from...

careful scrutiny during bidding, as not to incur an unnecessary loss. The bidding may also give away some information about what cards a player may or may...

question marks, boxes, or other symbols. In playing cards, a suit is one of the categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Most often, each card...

holding slots, each containing a set of bidding cards: one with 35 cards with symbols of bids, and the other with cards for other calls (pass, double, etc...

to the table so that they have 5 cards face down, each covered by a face up card (to give a total of 10 cards). Bidding is the same as the standard game...

player and four cards are dealt to the blind. Bidding commences with the person immediately to the left of the dealer automatically bidding 500. The winner...

element of bidding in which the trump suit is decided by which player can bid to take the most tricks. Variation comes from the number of cards dealt, the...

card game for four players, in which the Jack and the nine are the highest cards in every suit, followed by ace and ten. It thought to be descended from...

the other being the idea of bidding. Trump cards, initially called trionfi, first appeared with the advent of Tarot cards in which there is a separate...

trumps or bidding. They diverged into multi-trick games where melds can only be beaten by other melds provided they have the same number of cards. During...

round of bidding begins with eldest who may make trump of any other suit. If all pass again and dealer does not want to make trump, the cards are thrown...

whole match at stake. The bidding phase is over when one of the following becomes true: Four passes were announced, thus the cards are collected and the dealer...

are taken out. Two cards are dealt to the stock, pott or skat. These cards will go to the highest bidder. After the deal, bidding begins with the player...

the bidding. Bidding box A box placed on the table (one box for each player) that contains cards with calls printed on them, as well as other cards such...

after the bidding round, the player who made the highest bid looks at the cards given up by players who looked at their hand prior to bidding, one at a...

cards of the nest to his or her hand, then lays any five cards to the side. The high bidder then names the trump suit. At any time during the bidding...

cards will win, can also be bettered by bidding the same number of books and indicating that there will be a trump suit and that lower-ranking cards will...

beneath it. The door is closed during the bidding stage, and the players place their calls using bidding cards on a movable tray, which slides under the...

won bidding. All three players get seven cards during dealing. The player who won the bidding gets stock (+3 cards), and temporarily has 10 cards. In...

version of briscola. Every player is dealt eight cards, so that no cards remain undealt. Then the bidding phase begins, the purpose of which is to decide...

A bidding system in contract bridge is the set of agreements and understandings assigned to calls and sequences of calls used by a partnership, and includes...

of just 28 cards and no joker. Five cards each are dealt in two rounds of 2 then 3 cards each, leaving a widow of 3 cards. A player bidding 3 tricks takes...

or leave i.e. it is bidding with immediate hold. As a guide to bidding, a player can reckon points for various features of the cards held, judging the bid...

the other being the idea of bidding. Trump cards, initially called trionfi, first appeared with the advent of tarot cards in which there is a separate...

After the bidding has been completed, trick-taking begins. If playing the 2-player version, the "dummy's" cards other than the 3 bidding cards are first...

money games. Bidding was usually in Polish. There was a four-hand partnership game and a three-hand, "cut-throat" game involving seven cards per hand and...