Solo 66 At the start of the game, the dealer shuffles the cards and offers them to be cut, he then deals six cards to each player. The remaining two cards are placed face-down in the middle of the table as the talon. The soloist is determined through a bidding process or auction. The player who bids the highest suit as trumps wins the auction. The suits rank, from highest to lowest, in the order: Clubs , Spades , Hearts and Diamonds . In the auction the player to the left of the dealer (forehand) is the first to bid or pass.
Jump bidding will always win the item for free. Such cooperation could be very beneficial to both bidders in the long run. The problem is, it cannot be enforced, because both bidders have an incentive to say that their value is higher than it really is. Here jump-bidding comes into play. It works like a signaling game. By jump-bidding, the jumper signals that he has a high value, and so the other bidder should quit immediately if his value is lower. Two bidders, Xenia and Yakov, participate in an auction for a single item. This is a common value auction with the