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.
Five-suit bridge joker but this is discarded before play as it is not used. Sixteen cards are dealt to each player with the remaining 65th card (the "widow" or "kitty") being dealt face up on the middle of the table. This card would go to whoever made the highest bid who would then discard a card that must be exposed. Five-suit bridge Five-suit bridge is a late 1930s variation of contract bridge played with a deck of 65 playing cards divided into five suits. In the summer of 1937 in Vienna, Walter W. Marseille, with the help of Paul Stern, published rules