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In trick-taking games, to ruff means to play a trump card to a trick (other than when trumps were led). According to the rules of most games, a player...

trump game, but a suit can be declared trumps during a hand. A player who has won a trick may declare trumps if a 'marriage', i.e. king and a queen of...

making team to score more points than that of the opponents. (If no meld is involved, the team declaring trumps must score at least 82 points to avoid “set”)...

and the winner of the trick leads to the next trick. To declare a suit as trumps, the player, whose turn it is, has to meld a pair consisting of a King...

card or to trump refers to any sort of action, authority or policy which automatically prevails over all others. The introduction of trumps is one of...

second to fifth trumps are known collectively as the Moretti (Moors) and are of equal rank (the last one played is the highest, in regards to taking a...

does not wish to bid may declare ramsch in which players each play for themselves in trying to take the fewest tricks with grand as trumps. The skat is...

consisting of trumps in a fixed hierarchy. One can get a similar effect by declaring all cards of a fixed or randomly determined suit to be trumps. This method...

rules also allow a player to declare a maldonne if their hand has no trumps, or fewer than a given number of combined trumps and face cards. The dog consists...

declarer's party score what they bid, and the opponent lose exactly the same points. Instead of declaring trumps with the first card played, declarer...

an undertaking to make six tricks and would be beaten by a bid of Six No Trumps or Seven Clubs. The winner of the auction is Declarer and plays solo against...

ombre. As in quadrille, players bid for the privilege of declaring trumps and deciding whether to play alone or with a partner. Along with ombre, Tarock...

at all. The first dealer is decided by cutting. The highest bidder declares trumps. After card play (assuming that the party of the highest bidder kept...

whist is a member of the whist family known by a variety of names including trumps in Britain, reduction whist, diminishing whist (from the way one fewer card...

the first to play the next hand. Once a player has no more trumps in their hand, they are up (out of that game). You are not allowed to declare that you...

higher score is rounded down. Example: if in an "All trumps" contract with two tierces the declarers have 154 points and the defenders have 144 points,...

chosen or selected suits to distinguish them from trump suits. The introduction of trumps is one of only two major innovations to trick-taking games since...

choose trumps. The Total Trumps Principle is derived from the Law of Total Tricks and argues that this is more often than not a winning strategy, "Bid to the...

as compared to other whist variants is that, instead of trump being decided by the highest bidder or at random, the spade suit always trumps, hence the...

declare a different contract. Once a misère contract has been declared, defenders are not asked whether they want to whist. It is played at no trumps...