Judgement

Simple trick taking card game, predict how many you can win

Judgement – The Card Games is played between four players.

The player sitting next to dealer in counter-clockwise direction plays first. A total of 10 cards are given to each player to begin with in the first round. With every game the number of cards given to every player will decrease.

In the first round there are 10 cards, in the second round there will be 9 cards given to each player, 8 cards in the third round and so on until the last game will have only 1 card for each player.

There is a pre-decided trump suit in every round Hearts, Spades, Diamonds & Club

After the cards are dealt, the first player will predict the hands/tricks that he will make after looking at his cards.

All the other players, at their turn in counter-clockwise direction make their predictions on the number of hands they will make.

The dealer cannot make prediction which can lead to total of predictions by all players equal to cards dealt in that round.

As an example- in round 1 when 10 cards are dealt, assume the 1st player made the prediction of 5 hands, 2nd Player made prediction of 3 hands, 3rd Player predicted just one hand then Player 4 who is the dealer or the last one to make prediction cant choose to go with 1 as his predicted hand count as 5+3+1+1 = 10 i.e. no of dealt cards, so he has to choose either 0 or 2 or any number other than 1.

After the predictions are over, the game begins with player who was dealt the 1st card first playing first.

The Ace carries the maximum score, followed by King, then Queen, then Jack, then a ten and so on up to the two which has the least score.

Suppose the first player plays the King of Spades, and all the players have spades with them so that the trump is not played but no one has the ace of Spades, so the King of spades wins over other cards of spades and he gets to open the next turn.

The game goes this way on till all the remaining cards in the first round are played. Scores of all the players are counted as –

If number of hands made = predicted number

Then he/she gets score of 10+ (number of hands made)

Else he/she gets 0 points.

If one calls to win all dealt cards and makes all the tricks in that round he wins a bonus score of 10X Number of tricks/hands

If a player has predicted zero hands and does not make any hand, then he gets ten points.

The next round begins - this time with one card less to each player till the round when just one card is dealt to everyone.