ing card to be
of the same suit as that led, unless trumped._ After each trick is
taken, an additional card is drawn by each player from the top of the
pack--the taker of the last trick drawing first, and so on till all
the pack is exhausted, including the trump card. Players are not
obliged to follow suit or trump until all the cards have been drawn
from the pack. Tricks are of no value, except for the aces and tens
they may contain. Tricks should not be looked at till the end of the
deal, except by mutual consent. When a player plays without drawing,
he must draw two cards next time, and his opponent scores ten. When a
player draws out of turn, his opponent scores ten, if he has not drawn
a card himself. When a player draws two cards instead of one, his
opponent may decide which card is to be returned to the pack--it
should not be placed at the top, but towards the middle of the pack. A
player discovering his opponent holding more than eight cards, while
he only holds eight, adds 100 to his score. Should both have more than
their proper number there is no penalty, but each must play without
drawing.
[BE NOT THE FIRST BY WHOM THE NEW IS TRIED.]
123. Mode of Playing.
i. Immediately after taking a trick, and then only, a player can
make a Declaration; but he must do so before drawing another card.
Only one Declaration can be made after each trick.
ii. If, in making a declaration, a player put down a wrong card or
cards, either in addition to or in the place of any card or cards of
that declaration, he is not allowed to score until he has taken
another trick. Moreover, he must resume the cards, subject to their
being called for as "faced" cards.
iii. The seven of trumps may be exchanged for the trump card, and
for this exchange ten is scored. This exchange is made immediately
after he has taken a trick, but he may make a declaration at the
same time, the card exchanged not being used in such declaration.
iv. Whenever the seven of trumps is played, except in the last eight
tricks, the player scores ten for it, no matter whether he wins the
trick or not.
v. When all the cards are drawn from the pack, the players take up
their eight cards. No more declarations can he made, and the play
proceeds as at Whist, the ten ranking higher than the king, and the
ace highest.
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