Set (card game) 9th in the 1995 "Deutscher Spiele Preis". Several games can be played with these cards, all involving the concept of a "set". A set consists of three cards satisfying "all" of these conditions: The rules of "Set" are summarized by: If you can sort a group of three cards into "two of ____ and one of ____", then it is not a set. For example, these three cards form a set: Given any two cards from the deck, there is one and only one other card that forms a set with them. In the standard Set game, the dealer lays
Bidding (cards) Bidding (cards) Bidding is the process in many card games, such as Skat, Pinochle, Binokel, Bridge, Solo Whist, Préférence, L’Hombre, Bauernschnapsen and most types of Tarock, whereby players vie to be able to specify the type of contract, the trump cards and/or to be able to pick up a set of face-down cards known variously, for example, as the talon, skat, dabb. Players may raise the bid (by bidding a higher contract or point value) until the highest bidder is determined when the others all say "pass". Bidding may be done in successive pairs as in Skat (in the sequence: