Israeli whist

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Israeli whist is a variant of whist. Each player sees his cards (13 of them, like regular whist) and decided how many tricks he might win. Each player can declare in which suit he wants to play and how many tricks he is about to win. The player declaring the highest tricks wins and the his suit is played. Each player now has to declare how many tricks he is about to win, and the game commences.

At the end of the game, the number of tricks is summed for each player. A player must win exactly the number of tricks he declared. If he succeeded, he scores the number of tricks in the power of two plus 10. If he fails, he loses 5 points for every difference between the real result and his declaration.