Five Hundred and its variants are the only games in the Triumph family to use a full 52 card deck. Download the 500 game for the computer. The new Napoleon is derived from Five Hundred. A standard deck is used, with no jokers. This game can be played with four or five people.
Aces are high.
The remaining cards are put face-down in the middle. Players then view their hands, sorting by suit. A bid is an attempt to be Napoleon. The player who wins the bidding is the Napoleon. Napoleon then takes the two or four cards in the middle into his hand and then discards the same number of cards, placing them face down in a discard pile.