The dealer bids last, and cannot bid so that the sum of everyone's bids equals the number of tricks. The player to the left of the dealer bids first. On the 13th hand, there are several ways of determining the trump (see below). After each player has his hand, one undealt card is turned up to determine the trump suit. Then for the 14th through 25th hand, the number of cards dealt goes down from 12 to one. This increases by one per hand, until the 13th hand, in which everybody gets 13 cards.
On the first hand, one card is dealt to each player. Here is a specific four-player version variations are listed below.
