The game is for 3 players using a pack of 24 cards in which cards 2-8 have been removed. Game is won by the player whose score first reaches or passes a total of 1000. The cards rank in descending order: Ace, 10, King, Queen, Jack, 9. Rules stipulate the deal alternating. Players score points either by taking cards in tricks or by declaring marriages that they hold after a trick is won (marriage is king and queen of the same suit). A player can declare marriage by leading in the king or the queen of this marriage any time except playing the first trick. 7 cards are dealt. The remaining cards form the talon. The talon gets a winner in competition for the rigaht to play first trick as leader. It is important because the game begins withaut a trump. Declared marriage establishes trump. The leader’s opponent must follow suit if able. If the suit cannot be followed, then it is obligatory to trump. Having none of the trump-cards either, you can play as you please. The decisive moment of the game comes when any player scores 880 points. He has 3 chances to score 120 points more and to win finaly. If he cannot to do it, he loses 120 points. The cause for such a result can be one more rule of the game. Player cannot order the obligatory number of game points more then 120 points during the competition for the right to play 1-st trick as leader, having no marriage among dealed 7 cards in the begining of the game. Using this feature of the game opponents may not let him win (see detailed description below).
