Bidding box for home-played games. Use of bidding boxes has several advantages over oral bidding: it reduces noise in the room, prevents bidding being overheard at neighboring tables, allows easier review of the auction, and reduces the opportunity to pass unauthorized information to one's partner (intentionally or not) by the manner and intonation in which one makes one's bid. A bidding box is typically a plastic box with two slots, each containing a set of bidding cards. One slot contains 35 cards with symbols of bids (5 denominations—clubs (), diamonds (), hearts (), spades (), and notrump (NT)—in seven levels of bidding,
Brandeln he is offering not to take any tricks. A Bettel beats a 6-trick Brandel. The highest contract, which beats all the others, is Mord, which is where a player has to take all 7 tricks. The player who has announced the highest bid wins the auction and leads to the first trick. Players must follow suit or, if not able to, play a trump. In a Bettel contract, in which there are no trumps, players must play a higher card if they can. Points for winning are awarded as follows: If the declarer (the winner of the auction) loses, he