Rules

One Standard Deck of Cards must be prepared before playing (Only 9’s – A’s (24 total cards)). This is a game where the goal is to get 10 points first.

Score Cards are 6 and 4 of Hearts and 6 and 4 of Spades delivered to each team. Team members are across from each other on the table.

One Round of Gameplay

Dealing – Deal is 3’s and 2’s to each player so each player has 5 cards.

Bidding – Flip the top card of the remaining four cards in the middle of the table.

If the 10 of Spades is flipped – you will decide if Trump is going to be Spades. Each players gets to vote if Spades is/is not Trump starting left of the dealer.

If no player wants Spades to be trump – the bidding phase continues (player left of the dealer) can pick and trump suit to be one of the other three suits (hearts/diamonds/clubs) or the player can pass.

Gameplay/ Card Value

If Trump suit is Selected – Jacks are the most Valuable Card of the Trump suit.

Any card that is trump is better than any other suit. However, you MUST FOLLOW THE LEAD SUIT.

Trump is Spades
- Jack of Spades is the best card
- Jack of Clubs is the second best Card (and is technically a Spade if you are following suit)
- A K Q 10 9 Spades is the following value (7 total trump cards)
- Jacks or Red are standard value of Jacks ( A K Q J 10 9 of Hearts)

Scoring – There are more variations but this is your standard game.

Your goal is to win 3/5 Tricks per round.

Trump Suit Selection	Winning Tricks	Points
Your Team Selects Trump	3/5	1/2
Your Team Do not Select Trump	3	2
Your Team Selects Trump and Go Alone	3/5	1/4

Scoreboard

Example Gameplay

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Selecting Spades as Trump

If the top of left play tells the dealer to “pick it up” it means the trump is now spades and the dealer has to exchange a card from his/her hand to the deck. Each player should have 5 cards prior to the start of the round.

Game Start

Left of the dealer starts.

Ace of Hearts Leads
Queen of Hearts Follows (Must Follow Suit)
Player 3 Does not Follow Suit – Does not want to trump teammate – plays low off suit – Ace of Hearts is still winning.
Dealer plays a Trump Card – which is 9 of Spades which wins the trick. Trump cards exceed the value of any off suit card. Can only play Trump because does not have the lead card suit.
Nine of spade wins this trick.

Second Card

Winner of the Previous Trick Starts.

Ace of Clubs Leads
Left of the dealer must follow suit (King of Clubs)
Player 2 must follow suit (Queen of Clubs)
Player 3 Must follow suit – chooses to play the lower of two cards because cannot beat the Ace of Clubs.
Ace of Clubs wins this trick.

3rd Card

Winner of Last Hand Leads

King of Spades Leads
No Trump suits – 10 of diamonds gets played. King of Spades still leads
Teammate plays Big Trump in Hand – Best Card in the round Jack of Spades.
Jack of Clubs is technically a spade for this round so the opponent has to follow Spades lead to play Jack of Club and lose.
Partner wins this trick and your team is up 3/5 tricks so far. Which means your team has at least 1 point for this round.

4th Card

Winner of Last Hand Leads

Ace of Spades Leads – Since both jacks are out this is the best card.
Cannot follow trump suit – plays Jack of Diamonds
Must follow Spades – 10 of Spades
Cannot follow Spades – King of Hearts
Ace of spade wins this trick.

Fifth Card

Winner of Last Hand Leads

Jack of Hearts Leads
King of Diamonds Follows (still is losing the Jack of Hearts because it is not the same suit)
Dealer Trumps his teammate with the last remaining Spade
Ace of Diamonds cannot win vs a trump card
Queen of Spades wins this trick. Winning all 5 tricks means your team won 2 points.