Napoleon Card game
Number of Players:
Napoleon card game is an English game that has been popular for the past two centuries. This game is played best with two to six players.
Objective:
To outbid the other player and then to win the number of tricks you have bidded for.
The Cards:
A regular pack of 52 cards is used. Aces are high.
How To Play:
Each player is dealt a hand of five cards. Start with non dealer, each player has to make one bid, naming a number of tricks to be won. The highest bidder chooses the trump and tries to win at least that many tricks.
Bids in Nap:
1 1 trick
2 2 tricks
3 3 tricks
Misere (me-ZARE) 3 tricks, no trump suit
4 4 tricks
Napoleon 5 tricks
Wellington 5 tricks
Blucher 5 tricks
A Misere out bids a bid of 3.
Napoleon card game, Wellington, and Blucher are all bids that can take all five tricks, but each scores differently. This means that a player who bids Napoleon card game for five tricks can be outbid by the other player bidding Wellington or Blucher.
Non dealer must bid 2 or pass. Dealer becomes the "maker" by bidding higher. If neither player bids, throw the hand in.
Maker begins by leading a card to the first trick. This card’s suit become a trump. You must follow suit when you are able to; otherwise you may trump or discard. A trick is won by the highest trump in it or, if it contains no trump, by the highest card. The winner of each trick leads the next.
Free Instructions For Scoring:
As a maker you win the number of tricks you bid, score the number of points you bid and make
Napoleon, Wellington, or Blucher, score 10 points.
The opponent scores for defeating maker’s bid. If maker doesn’t take the number of tricks bid, opponent scores that number. Opponent scores 5 for defeating
Napoleon, 10 for defeating Wellington, and 20 for defeating Blucher. It’s the risk of greater loss that separates the three different bids for all five tricks.
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The first to reach 30 points or a higher number if you like is the winner.
Rules For Closing:
Before the stock is gone, the player that has the lead may announce, "The game is closed". The player then turns over the trump up card. No more cards are drawn and the play goes on to phase two. Marriages may still be declared.
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