Means, best optimized forbattery usage.Which means, you can play for several hours whiletravelling. Each player becomes the dealer one byone.The dealer hasto make 2 tricks, the next person (whochooses the trump) 5, and thethird 3.

Dealing the Cards - firstdistribute a set of 5 cards toeach, as a single block of 5.Thefirst person dealt to chooses thetrump suit.

Then the cards aredealt either as another block of 5 toeach player, or in a variant,in sets of 3 and two. If the playerchoosing the trump does notlike his first 5 cards, she may decideto ask the next set of 2cards to be shown to all and the suit withthe highest card inthose 3 becomes the trump.

First lead is bythe player settingthe trump, subsequent ones are by the one whowins the trick.

Inthe end if someone makes more than what isrequired of him (likethe dealer makes 4 instead of 2), then he iseither 'owed' tricksin the next round by those that made fewer thanthey were requiredto, or instead can 'pick' a card each for theextra tricks in thenext round (the choice is on the part of theperson who 'owes' thetricks) i.e.

if player 1 (the dealer) makes 4and player 2 makes 2(instead of 3) and player 3 makes 4 (instead of5), then player 1has the option of pulling one card each from thecards of player 2and player 3 in the next round. In return, he cangive back any ofhis unwanted (usually small) cards as long as hecan show 2 cardsof the same suit (in some regions, instead of 2,only 1 card of thesame suit is necessary).

If anyone does not getthe Trump,re-deal needs to be done.

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