Bidding
Beginning with the player to dealer's left, each competitor may make one of the bids in the table below or pass. If someone bids, then subsequent players can either pass or bid higher. The bidding continues around the table as many times as necessary until the contract is settled. If everyone passes or there is a Prop without a Cop then the hands are thrown in and dealt again.
| Call | Description | Proposer Points | Further notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prop and Cop | Two players attempt to win eight tricks together. The first player calling Prop and the remaining players invited to call Cop | +/- 1 | Both proposer and accepter score. |
| Solo | One player attempts to make five tricks alone | +/- 3 (wins or loses one unit from other players) | |
| Misère | One player thinks they will win no tricks | +/- 6 (wins or loses two units from other players) | There is no trump |
| Abundance | One player thinks they can win nine tricks | +/- 9 (wins or loses three units from other players) | Proposer picks the trump |
| Royal Abundance | One player thinks they can win nine tricks in the current trump | +/- 9 (wins or loses three units from other players) | |
| Misère Ouverte | One player thinks they will win no tricks with their hand placed face up on the table after the first trick is complete | +/- 12 (wins or loses four units from other players) | There is no trump |
| Abundance Declared | One player thinks they can win all 13 tricks | +/- 18 (wins or loses six units from other players) | Proposer leads first. There is no trump |
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Famous quotes containing the word bidding:
“Go; and if that word have not quite killed thee,
Ease me with death by bidding me got too.
Oh, if it have, let my word work on me,
And a just office on a murderer do.
Except it be too late to kill me so,
Being double dead: going, and bidding go.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
“A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may. I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, coöperate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)