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The Prediction After the cards are dealt and sorted the player to the left of the dealer begins. Each must either make a trick prediction or take the Saboteur. (The Saboteur can only be taken by at most one player.)

Saboteur: Instead of making a trick prediction and taking seals, a player can choose the Saboteur. The task of the Saboteur is to make the game run poorly for as many players as possible so that they cannot get rid of their seals or even have to take black penalty seals. The Saboteur never gets any seals, no matter how he plays and what tricks he takes. The Saboteur gets 4 penalty points (maximum) and possibly less at the end of a round. More about this under "Course of Play" and "Scoring the Round".

White tokens (wild): If a player wants to take a token that is no longer available, they may take it from a previous bidder--replacing that token with a white one.

Course of Play Red is always trump. After winning a trick, winner turns in a token of the trick's color (suit led, or may instead choose red if trick taken by trump). If winner doesn't have an appropriate token, they can either turn in a white token or receive a black penalty token (3 points).

The Saboteur plays the same as any other player, but he never gets tokens.

Scoring the Round The first round ends as soon as all 15 cards are played. Each player who has no seals before himself receives 0 points. It doesn’t get any better than that!

Each colored token (red, yellow, green, blue, violet) counts 2 penalty points while each black counts 3. Each white token counts 4.

The Saboteur gets 4 penalty points, less 1 point for each black seal that another player took--but never less than zero.

Play one hand per player. Fewest points wins.

Notes More than six black tokens cannot be assigned in a round. Later penalties are not accrued.

A player does not necessarily have to take many red seals if he possesses many trump.

A player should try to take the Saboteur whenever he possesses very few or no cards in one or more colors. Each time, if he does not have to lead, he can throw off or take a trick to miraculously thwart the plans of the other players. (In a three player game the Saboteur can be very lucrative, so it costs 5 penalty points to take it in a 3-player game.)