It uses all four suits, but each suit contains two Aces, two Tens, two Kings, two Queens, two Jacks and two Nines.

A player can raise the minimum bid by 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 points at a time.

A player can also pass, in which case they do not place a bid and are out of the bidding for that round.

The winning bid is called the contract and the player who won the bid is called the declarer.

The trump suit and the contract are displayed in the top right corner, along with each pairs current total points.

The number passed can also be set in the Options menu to 3 or this stage can be disabled.

Melds are displayed by all players before being returned to their owners hand.

A card can be reused in multiple melds, provided each meld is a different type.

At Cardzmania, melds will be calculated for you, but for reference, heres all the melds are as follows.

There are at most 250 points available during play, so if the declarer needs more than 250 points to equal their contract after counting their points from the melds, then they cannot possibly meet their contract and must throw in.

If the declarer chooses to throw in, the round ends and the declarers team loses points equal to their contract, while the opposing pair keep their points from the meld.

Which means in any trick a player must always play a card that wins the current trick if he is able.

If there are two matching winning cards, then whichever was played first wins.

Players score points based on the cards in the tricks they won.

The target number of points can also be set to 1000, 2000 or 2500.

Winning the game requires a lot of coordination between players especially with passing involved.

All trick leads are very important especially if you have a lone ace, you want to play that early up.

If possible, players must play a card which is the same suit as the first card played - this is called following suit.

If a player cannot follow suit, then they may play any card in their hand.

Each of these subgroups is recognised by a symbol and are referred to as suits.

Each suit contains 13 cards which, generally, are considered in this order, Ace (A), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jacks (J), Queen (Q) and King (K).

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