The sun., 1916-02-13
SCHOOL FOR CARD PLAYERS.

Auction Bridge. Mrs H. says My
partner dealt and bid a club Second hanJ
bid hearts my lead. | held four clubs
TO the jack and led the smallest to show
four. Dummy had three to the king
4 and i could not get in again to come
through 1t a second time to my partner &
ace. queen. ten. nine suit. so that. al.
though my partner had the ace OF
trumps. that king gave the deciarer
n discaN and she went game My part
ner says ] should have led the Jack.
| II is an invariable rule to lead the
best card YOU hold Of your partners de.
claied suit. She does not care anything
about number, the thing is to tell her
what high cards in her suit are. in the
declarers hand against her.
VI. W. =. says: Dealer bids no trump
second hand passes. Third hand holds
| six hearts. eight high, q singleton small
| diamond, and three small In each OF the
black suits. What should she say?
! Two hearts.
J q. 7. says: The dealer il Il. but A bids
club out OF turn. without noticing the
error. bids heart. and without wait
ing for Il. the dealer Gays no trump
1 protests and says he will demand a
penalty. What can he do Y insists
/ that \ made the same error as u, ~
! Il ~ s'audof.
condoned AS error by making a
bid without demanding any penalty. but
\ has not accepted rs bid out OF turn.
50 that B can penalize it. lie has the
choice of three things: A new deal. or
TO ask his partner to decide whether the
bid shaa stand OF not or TO declare the
bid void AMI bid himself as II no such
bid had ever been made by H.
NJ. Il T says: The dealer holds King.
queen. Jack OF diamonds. ten of nea-ts.
ace OF spades and eight clubs to the
quart major. on which he bids three no
tsum =. so as TO shut out the heart
bid Apart from tho result. is this a good
b Il on the rubber game?
The hand is a lay down for Hve odd in
clubs. as one diamond and one heart are
the only possible losers The only thing
! that could happen would be for the
leader 10 play ace and another diamond
and have his partner trump the second
one and then make the ace OF hearts.
which Is highly improba Bile. At no trump.
the hear; suit might save the game and
rubber.
Five Hundred. -. q. l. says We
understand that this game Is PLAYED with
joker. What change does this make
in the rules?
The standard game n with the Joker.
and the exception would be to leave il
out This would make no change in the
rules. but there would always be one less
in the trump suit and there would be no
trump at all when the bid was no
trumps. In all trump declarations the
r!ght bower would be the best.
J. n. y. says: The bidder is A, but
u gets enough to pu. him 500 by win
ning individual tricks worth 10 points
each before A makes good his bid A
finally makes his contract and reaches
500. Who wins,
The bidder always has the titst count
in all bidding games, and If h. has
enough to go out he nins, no matter
@ha, his opponents may score. This
is to compensate him for the risk hs
!. takes Of being set back
M~. F. II NJ says our opponents
b.d seven no trumps and take every
trick. what is the score
Whether playing under the old or the
A>ondale schedule ten tricks a:e worth
so. as the bid ts.lt IS worth on.y .gO.
or 24o IN either e ,n- standard tables
Of values.
'rbbase \ NJ says PLAYING three
hand, the cards fall T. s. 5, and {
pegs run. \ cannot play. and u lays
down another 8, for which he pegs an.
other run OF three
There !s no run. as BIS oUu : is IN the
way Of MS getting back to the 4 and
duplicates break up all runs
order: A. .. ., s, A. T. 3. The one who
played the last card pegs holes. Is
this Corre,''
Yes. because the duplicate ace Is out
OF range and does not Interfere with the
sequence
l." {. SAYS playing Two hand \
LAYS down an eight and calls twenty-five
as me count to that point. u PLAYS
nine, which. with the seven he pla,e ed
before. gives him IA run OF thre. and
'hirty-one. five holes. which he proceeds
20 peg. then diScoveFs that the count
was twenty three. not twenty-five can
ne cancel rs score for the th.rty.one?
No, After the following player mas
PLACED to the announcement and added
TO /, without correcting IT it Is too
late to rcctify IT.
Auction Pitch r. r. l.. says has
up to lIs when u gets the pitch and
leads ace Of trulnps. 4 plays the deuce
and calls out. ~ h. makes one. while -
lad two only. which is not enough to go
game u actually made three although
H. did MOI hid three.
The bidder has the first count and
scores all he gets, no matter what he
bid. II u Was I up and made 5 on a
bad OF he wins
Dice. A u r SAYS: bets II is
10 ! against person throwing either
Of two named numbers with "A single
cast OF one die, such as ace and six
Is bets II is 3 TO |.
As there are sin faces on tn. de there
are six chances, and AZ .vo OF the six
viii win for the Caster he has two
chances in six and four against hun
That is 10 !. 40 that IS correct.
is apparently confused by thinking
of one IN three. To get the odds the
one must be deducted from the three.
leaving two only,