Things You'll Need:
- A regular deck of playing cards with the standard four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs) and, in descending order, the AKQJ1098765432.
- Four players.
- A pen and a piece of paper to keep score.
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Step 1
Rather than steps, these are scoring suggestions. Each step after this is a different scoring suggestion. Also, each scoring suggestion must be decided BEFORE playing.
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Step 2
Blind double nil. Any player can bid nil in a regular game. That simply means a player believes he/she will not take a single trick during the hand. In this scoring system, a player can bid nil without looking at the player's hand. If the player takes 0, he and his partner receive 200 plus (or minus) the points the partner would receive for the partner's bid.
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Step 3
Strategy for blind double nil. Typically, bidding blind double nil is a desperation move when one team is well behind the other team and has no real chance to win without this desperation bid. On the other hand, if you are the last person to bid and there have been 11 or more tricks bid, this is certainly a consideration, especially if your partner has bid 6 or more.
Note - if you bid blind double nil and you receive the ace of spades, it is impossible to get your bid. Try to set the other team. -
Step 4
Passing blind double nil. A team may only bid blind double nil in this game when the team is behind by 200 points or more. The first partner bids blind double nil and then both teams pick up their cards.
The partner that bids blind double nil passes two cards to the partner 2. Partner 2 then picks up the cards, looks at them, and passes back 2 cards. If the partner bidding blink double nil takes 0 tricks during the hand, the team receives 200 points plus (or minus) the points parnter 2 receives on partner 2's bid. -
Step 5
Strategy for passing blind double nil. There are differing theories on which partner should bid the blind double nil. If the first partner bids it, then both partners know what to bid and what the other person has. The downside is that the first partner could have a hand that is impossible with which to go nil. If partner 2 goes nil, the first partner must remember to bid at least 2 tricks higher than the normal bid.
Second, the pass is critical here. The bidding partner MUST get rid of the two cards most likely to cause the partner to get a trick, which are typically spades. The non-nil-bidding partner must give back two cards that will not force his partner to take a trick, typically not spades.
