In order for a nil bid to be considered successful, the specific player who made the bid cannot take any tricks (however, their partner is still responsible for making their own bid). The exception to this is a player who makes a nil bid. It does not matter if an individual player successfully makes their bid or not so long as the team makes the combined bid. When all players have bid, each partnership is responsible for winning a number of tricks equal to the combined total of their bids (for example, if the two players of a team bid 3 and 6 respectively, the team needs to win 9 tricks to make their bid). Each player in turn must make a bid, but there are no restrictions based on what other players have bid. If a player bids 0, they are making what is called a “nil” bid, and obviously they intend to take no tricks at all.
There will be a total of 13 tricks (one for every card in the players’ hands), so a bid can be anywhere from 0 to 13. The play of the game can be broken down into three parts: bidding, trick-taking, and scoring.īidding – following the deal and starting with the player to the dealer’s left, each player makes a bid based on the number of tricks they believe they can take during the hand. Players are dealt one card at a time in a clockwise direction until the entire deck is dealt Cards rank 2-A (low to high) and spades is always the trump suit. Partners sit opposite one another.Ī standard deck of 52 playing cards, jokers removed (except in variations).
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