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The 52 Qard Game Series · Season 3

Twenty-Nine

The trump stays hidden until someone cannot follow.

Home India, Bangladesh and NepalSeats 4, in partnershipsFamily Point-trick tablesStatus At the table
W.F.A. deck32cards in play
Twenty Nine on the W.F.A. deck, on black velvet under a brass lamp
Twenty-Nine · India, Bangladesh and Nepal

How to deal

Partners sit across the table. Deal four cards each from the 32-card deck. Bidding runs from sixteen up to twenty-eight for the number of points a side will capture; the highest bidder places a card face down to name the trump suit. The dealer then completes the hands to eight cards.

How to play

The player to the dealer's right leads and play runs counter-clockwise. Follow suit if you can. The trump suit stays hidden until a player cannot follow and asks for it to be revealed, from which point trumps beat the led suit. Card points: Jack three, Nine two, Ace one, Ten one.

How you win

The bidding side needs at least the points they bid from the twenty-eight in play. Make it and they score a game point; fail and the defenders score one, or two for a high bid. Game points are kept with two cards that count up and down; six game points wins the match.

W.F.A. deck setup for Twenty-Nine

Play without the four 1s, then strip 2 through 6: 32 cards, the 07 in as the lowest card.

Sixty seconds at the table

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