The minimum bid is 15 and the maximum is 28. This continues until 3 players pass in a row. The bid starts with the player to the left of the dealer and moves left. A bid is a number that represents the amount of tricks that person believes their partnership can make. Each player receives four cards, one at a time, face-down.ĭepending on the cards in hand, players place bids for electing trumps. The dealer shuffles the deck and the player to their right cuts it. A set of partners each receives a red and black six. Sometimes, the 6s are used to keep score. Each player receives cards from each suit. The game is traditionally played with the 2s, 3s, 4s, and 5s being used as trump indicators. However, the game is generally not played that way and still retains the name. Some variations have a total of 29 points for the last trick, which is how it received its namesake. The winner of the trick, the player with the highest value card, takes the cards. Each player plays a single card in a trick. A trick is a hand in a trick-taking game. The objective of Twenty-Nine is to win tricks that have valuable cards in them.
The cards rank as follows: J (high), 9, A, 10, K, Q, 8, 7 (low).
The game utilizes only 32 cards of a standard 52 card deck, 8 cards per suit. Twenty-Nine is generally a four-player game with two partnerships. The principals of the game were imported along with Dutch traders. It is believed that this game is a descendant of a family of European games called Jass games. Twenty-Nine is a South Asian trick-taking card game. NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 4 players (two partnerships) NUMBER OF CARDS: 32 cards (8 cards per suit) RANK OF CARDS: J, 9, A, 10, K, Q, 8, 7 TYPE OF GAME: Trick-Taking AUDIENCE: Adult OBJECTIVE OF TWENTY-NINE: Wins tricks with valuable cards played.
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