He then discards any 3 cards, excluding 4 point cards, those used in declarations, or trumps. |
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Local businesses came up trumps once again with their generous gifts supporting the information centre. |
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The fact that no one will pick may also indicate that crucial high trumps are in the blind. |
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If it is a 9,8 or 7, a game of null is played without trumps, but the jokers are the highest cards of the suit of the drawn card. |
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West would follow with a higher card and East would then have played two trumps to West's one. |
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For most Wikipedians, it seems the fun of the site trumps any dark concerns. |
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It is clear that cappotto is impossible because South has three trumps to the king. |
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This can only be bid by the dealer, and is only allowed if the dealer holds the ace, king and deuce of trumps. |
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Fed-up bosses at a motor showroom came up trumps after offering a reward for the recovery of four stolen cars. |
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Ball after ball was lofted into the Colt goalmouth but time and again their defence came up trumps as they repelled attack after attack. |
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If a spade is turned it is put back in the middle of the talon and the next card is turned up for trumps. |
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A second pack of cards is shuffled and the top card turned over to determine trumps. |
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The kings of diamonds are the highest trumps instead of the tens of hearts. |
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Luckily, the insurance people seem to have come up trumps and have said they'll pay for it. |
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The teams with the most favorable player matchups will be the teams holding trumps in the final three weeks. |
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The fact that B's pairs of trumps are in sequence has no effect here, because the led cards were not in sequence. |
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If you have only one trump, or two trumps one of which is the two, you may pass these to partner and then fold. |
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As the twos and threes are out of play, the point for lowest is awarded to whoever holds the four of trumps. |
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Wilderness always trumps humankind in Alaska, despite the mini-malls and shiny skyscrapers. |
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It is best for 5 or 4 players, and features a novel and ingenious method of bidding to choose the trumps and partnerships. |
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The kids came up trumps as they were left with a royal flush beating Tommy's Bar who were only holding a pair of twos. |
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Before play begins, the players look at their cards and if they have any sixes, they give them to the player who has that suit as trumps. |
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And he never fails to come up trumps, his byline appears in all the nationals all the time. |
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Solo whist is a plain-trick game with trumps and bidding, closely related to the more elaborate and now obsolete game of Boston. |
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If spades are trumps then an extra double is automatically applied to the final scores. |
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If the next player has the spadille and no other trumps he need not play the spadille, but may play any card. |
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The ability to blend with low cover such as a clump of standing stalks or a brushy fence post gives the dove hunter two trumps. |
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This way you lose the lead and hope to trump with one of your small trumps when your void suit is led. |
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A multiple lead may also win because an opponent, although void, does not have enough trumps to match the number of cards led. |
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Age is immaterial, however, if he comes up trumps and allows me spondulicks. |
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He must also contend with a house phone on which the chef buzzes him with a Wagnerian ring, as insistent as the Doomsday trumps. |
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Then you play the three big hearts and after them, lead both of your trumps. |
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The most important signals are discards to indicate to partner which is your own strong suit, and leads to indicate the strength of your trumps. |
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In spite of this custom, the special exemptions from following suit still only extends to the trumps that outrank the king. |
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It is also possible to overcall a contract with a similar contract in which hearts are trumps. |
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Therefore the ace of diamonds is the lowest card of its suit when diamonds are not trumps. |
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With an average hand containing a chicane, an ace, and some low trumps, lead the ace followed by a low card of the same suit. |
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Lisselton came up trumps in the big game and understandably the team and supporters were in a jubilant frame of mind on their homeward journey. |
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Okay, your cast-iron chiminea trumps your neighbour's electric patio heater, but let's leave it there, shall we? |
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Points are also scored for honors, which are the Ace, King, Queen, and Jack of trumps. |
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For example if hearts are trumps, the jack of clubs is the highest heart, and has nothing whatever to do with the club suit. |
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Suppose its late in the game, and you have a lot of trumps, and 2 medium-to-high ranking clubs. |
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He's correct that the right of jury nullification trumps any worries about the possible pernicious effects of the drug. |
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What's needed in this political setting, say forum participants, is a moral imperative that trumps sheer economic concerns. |
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We identified 15 players who were committed to the cause and they have come up trumps. |
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From the moment that Schlag and trumps have been announced, players can use signals to indicate to their partner what cards they hold. |
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The counting cards are the highest and lowest trumps and the picture cards in the suits. |
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When bidding a contract with a minor suit as trumps, the suit is not mentioned. |
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When there are no trumps, a player who is unable to follow suit may play any card. |
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However, they can only be used as trumps if they are declared during or at the end of the deal, before play starts. |
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Just as noise trumps silence and rage trumps courtesy, the cudgel of lawsuits to silence or cower the opposition trumps free debate. |
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Any player who draws a card of the trump rank during the deal may place it face up on the table, and its suit then becomes trumps for the hand. |
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While you are playing hombre and diamonds are trumps, the ace of clubs is not a club, it is a diamond. |
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The bid of abundance in trumps is only used to overcall another player's bid of abundance. |
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A Kirby is often used when a player has many trumps, or cards above the value of queens. |
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There are no trumps at the start, but if the side winning a trick hold the king and queen of a suit, they can make that suit trumps. |
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The ace of spades is the most powerful card, irrespective of what suit is trumps. |
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The black aces are permanent trumps, independent of which suit otherwise is trumps. |
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If a trump is led, the other players may play any cards, and if several trumps are played to a trick the last one wins. |
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The suit of the card led by the pitcher to the first trick becomes trumps for that deal. |
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After the cut, the bottom card of the pack is shown to everyone and its suit is trumps. |
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I truly do believe that modernism trumps the traditional patriarchy because it is far more conducive to human happiness. |
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The result is a product which he claims trumps the competition in terms of taste and quality. |
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But I believe that in such trying times as these precision of meaning trumps political correctness or delicacy of phrasing. |
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From the Greeks, we learned that determination easily trumps the banter of cynics. |
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For ordinary sensible people, genuineness trumps a slick tongue every time. |
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However limited, this success clearly trumps the failures of the more command-oriented policies. |
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After the shocking performances of Britain's male athletes, few expected them to come up trumps on the final day of track and field action. |
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Our athletes came up trumps across the board, with many admirable performances. |
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The actor, in danger of being written off as lightweight, throws everything he's got into his performance and comes up trumps. |
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The odds were heavily stacked against the Scottish company coming up trumps but it persevered and struck black gold when few expected it. |
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But we've put the responsibility on him today of being captain and he's come up trumps. |
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The lads came up trumps with a solid performance that hopefully was a signal that our desire is still there. |
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From bands to solo singers, the event promises to be one to remember with rehearsals coming up trumps with some terrific performances. |
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Asia Pacific and Japan are expected to come up trumps in Q3-with year-on-year growth of 36 per cent and 35 per cent, respectively. |
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The people that have helped us have come up trumps and we are indebted to them. |
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One of the things these kids never fail to do is to turn up trumps for other people and they've done it again. |
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In all my swimathons I have relied heavily on my colleagues at the research councils to sponsor me and they have always come up trumps. |
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But as ever, Swindonians have come up trumps when it comes to helping those who need support. |
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However, while its cash may have technically saved the day, it is the director and his family who have come up trumps for the club once again. |
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Many museums do not charge for entry and really come up trumps in the school holidays with imaginative programmes of children's events that combine fun and learning. |
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If their appearance trumps their stranger status, it is not because it signifies freedom, but because it signals that they belong to a recognizable counterculture. |
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It's a sad, sad thing, but often mindless trash trumps artistic merit. |
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In choosing between suits of the same length, do not choose a suit with very high cards in it, as these may well win tricks even if they are not trumps. |
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And as the original bike path fight demonstrates, his passion about the importance of lifestyle trumps his faith in more traditional arrangements. |
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This study shows that in a competition between the two enzymes, DNA ligase trumps the flap endonuclease in capturing bubbles and creating expanded tracts. |
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But the need for fresh cannon fodder apparently trumps common sense. |
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Either way, the film's beauty usually trumps the poetic readings. |
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It may be that your life experience trumps any book learning you may get. |
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And, except under the most extreme circumstances, diplomacy trumps force. |
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Early pressure from Malton failed to produce the expected try, but the boot of Ian came up trumps to open the scoring after five minutes with a good penalty. |
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The game point goes to the side that wins the ten of trumps in a trick. |
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I give the declarer a chance to lead trumps into my tenaces. |
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This player can choose one of the four suits, or can call nines as trumps. |
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After the ace of trumps follow the King, Queen and numeral cards. |
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Last week he heard that two of the funding bodies have come up trumps. |
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The leitmotif of the new vogue in bad parenting is that keeping the marital buzz buzzing trumps the children. |
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Fund-raisers have already come up trumps, raising enough money to buy for plastic matting, to stop Jack bruising as he, increasingly unstable, constantly falls. |
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The irony of the findings is that a high-fat diet trumps a low-fat diet by a good measure when it comes to heart health. |
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I know that local people and local businesses will come up trumps. |
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For example if we are partners, we might agree that a bid of one club by me shows a strong hand, but has nothing to do with wanting clubs as trumps. |
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For trumps, Hiltons, or Cuomos, passing power or money onto the next generation requires no more than time and effort. |
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If you are trumping in, and there is a possibility of being overtrumped, trump with at least a Jack so that the fourth player cannot win with a Fox or 10 of trumps. |
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Your opponent has only one card left and you know it is the ace of trumps. |
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He wants to do the right thing, but his resistance to prison trumps his moral compass, especially after he finds out Marvin's dirty little secrets. |
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This is often very useful in cases when the declarer plays with short trumps and tries to make the contract with help of aces and kings in side suits. |
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Most tricks in game contracts are won by trumps or side suit kings. |
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Having bid ulti, the declarer is obliged to keep the 7 of trumps as long as is legally possible, subject to the rules of following suit and trumping when void. |
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In scenario 3, if a person with 5 trumps has the Ace of trump, she starts. |
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The modern tarot pack comes from an Italian tarrochi deck with 22 trumps. |
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A favourable ruling could find that the free exercise clause of the First Amendment trumps any state's law that discriminates against non-public schools. |
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Yet he has proven that his conservative side trumps any alleged libertarian leanings, even when the topic is completely unrelated to the war on terrorism. |
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The letter's false intent trumps any truths within, which one would expect of a woman who disingenuously calls herself Fidessa. |
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I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest. |
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But when it comes to style, Hotel Andra in Seattle's shoppy Belltown neighborhood trumps anything within a wide radius. |
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If you're falling out of an airplane, the law of gravity trumps the law of attraction. |
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But a birder understands that the swift flight of a rare breed trumps all. |
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To be fair, though, Pratt does have one talent that trumps us all. |
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The reality of his dream trumps concrete reality, even to the point of ethical questionability. |
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Postol may insist that her expertise trumps her problematic statements. |
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Nine times out of ten the Aussie battler will come up trumps as an immovable object in the middle order and galvaniser of collective ambition. |
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Ethanol is a case study of how parochialism trumps progress in Congress. |
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The background shows, dimly, a vaulted room or alcove, but van Mieris's hyperrealism trumps that trompe-l'oel depth. |
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Finally, footwear that is comfy and easily removable trumps all else. |
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Even on questions of mercy, Montaigne the Pyrrhonist trumps Montaigne the magnanimous liberal. |
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In true anthropophagistic fashion, an apparently domesticated cultural subject trumps its more powerful opponent by feigning a retreat. |
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Luckily when you have to source a Giant Pink Sea Snail, one of the many oddities to appear in the production, Qdos' archives came up trumps. |
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In the face of panoptic surveillance operations, C-51 in effect trumps privacy protection laws. |
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Having beaten Leeds last season to qualify for the cup quarter-finals, Ponty last Sunday again came up trumps, triumphing 30-24 at Headingley. |
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He threw his diamond loser on the third club, but West ruffed, cashed his queen of trumps and led a high diamond. |
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So nearly all her investment turned up trumps, and Edward was really in fit case to reopen Branshaw Manor and once more to assume his position in the county. |
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Declarer drew trumps, ruffed out the diamonds and conceded one off. |
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