Konter a Matt jack 1, 10 and 9 nothing. At the beginning of one game, the trump suit is fixed. Additionally, three cards are always trumps: the queens of spades Q, hearts Q and diamonds Q are always trumps. This is what gave the name to the game: the two queens of hearts Q and diamonds Q are the two Kontra trumps, the queen of spades Q is the “Matt”. As a consequence, in a match, depending on which suit is the trump, there are nine or eight trumps, four possibilities, the value of the cards is as follows (from highest to lowest,
Vickrey auction is dominated by the strategy of truthfully bidding. The strategy of underbidding is dominated by bidding truthfully. Assume that bidder i bids formula_8. If formula_9 then the bidder would lose the item with a truthful bid as well as an underbid, so the strategies have equal payoffs for this case. If formula_10 then the bidder would win the item either way so the strategies have equal payoffs in this case. If formula_11 then only the strategy of truthfully bidding would win the auction. The payoff for the truthful strategy would be positive as they paid less than their value of