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 decides how many tricks he might win. Each player can bid which suit he wants to play as trump and how many tricks he is about to win. The player declaring the highest tricks wins and his suit is played as trumps. Each player now has to declare how many tricks he is about to win, and the game commences. The last player to declare is not allowed to make such a decleration the will sum all declarations to 13. This forces at least one player to loose in each round. a player is also allowed to declare zero tricks.

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 he won squared plus 10. If he fails, he loses 5 points for every difference between the real result and his declaration. a player who declared zero tricks gains 50 points if the sum of all declartions was below 13 (an 'under' round) and 30 points in the event that the sum of all declerations was above 13 (an 'above' round).