Bluke 11 cards are dealt on the third hand, and so on until only 1 card is dealt, after which 2 are dealt, then 3, and so on all the way back to 13 (see more about ending the game below). Thus for a standard game of Bluke, a total of 25 hands are dealt. One player needs to be designated as score-keeper and will record bids, tally scores and keep track of how many cards are to be dealt for each hand. Once a hand has been dealt, the remaining cards (2 or more) are passed face down to the
Bluke cards are dealt, the remaining cards in the blind have been cut, and the trump suit (or "no trump") is determined, each player may make a bid from 1 to the total number of cards dealt, beginning with the player on the dealer's left. The bid is like a contract; it represents the number of tricks the player thinks s/he will take. However, players must be careful not to bid too high because if they take LESS tricks than the number of their bid, they "go set" and lose ten points times the number bid, regardless of how many tricks