Gamehelphund

Summary

Try to collect as many positive points and as few negative points as possible with your tricks. However, you don't know which suit will generate positive or negative points in each round.

The game lasts for 5 rounds. Each round there will be a designated number. According to the corresponding number card played, their suits gain trump, plus, hund, minus, lead effect according to their order.

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Gameplay

Starting with the start player, each player plays exactly 1 card from their hand. You must follow the suit colour played first in that trick, if possible.

After all players have played their cards, if the trump suit has been set and any trumps have been played, the player with the highest value trump wins the trick. Otherwise, the player with the highest value of the first played suit is the winner of the trick. The player takes all the cards in the trick.

Designate Suit

Whenever a card matches the value of the currently designated card number, an effect is immediately assigned to the suit of the effect. These effects are assigned according to the order they are played.

Effects in order:

1. Trump: The suit is trump from now on.

2. Plus: These cards give positive points.

3. Hund: Each player takes 3 points except for players who have the most and least cards of this suit.

4. Minus: These cards give negative points.

5. Lead: The player with most lead suit cards decides who will be the lead player in the next round (After all players look at their cards in the next round).

2-Player Rule

The game is setup like in a 3-Player game but with a virtual player.

Half of the virtual player's hand is face up on top of the face down cards, from left to right.

Virtual player moves like a third player. Rules:

- Always play the left-most displayed legal card.

- If there are any cards of the first played card suit in the virtual player's display, play the left-most of that suit.

- After a trick ends, if there is a face down card without face up card on top, reveal it.

Custom Options

Use more cards: Use 9/9/12/15 cards of each suit instead of 6/6/8/10 in the 2/3/4/5-player mode.

Select designation cards: Use all designation cards corresponding to the card values used in the game instead of 1-5. Starting from the second turn player, all players select a suit and a designation card in turn order until 5 sets are chosen. When a card matching a designated set is played, the suit of that card will be assigned to the next available suit power.