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.
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