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This topic was already quite well described here in the past and it is very valuable, that you share your experience here to spread the info for all. The phenomenon, you have described is just a bug in the game. Cheaters know about it and use it to avoid getting their ranking score reduced. My advic...

The end. I am very happy, that this little tutorial was read so often and thank for all the warm words from those, who wanted share their feelings and found these writing useful. The intention behind this project was to share my experience to make the readers play better games and improve their ski...

16. Count remaining cards to find out how to play Thank you for warm words from those, who enjoy this small series of short tutorials. In neither way I do it is to express my advantage. I just still think, that when the level of the games here will be better, all of us will enjoy those games more s...

15. Crime and punishment Now something about psychological aspects of the game which a lot here don’t take under consideration at all. I have understood, that in order to be successful here, you need to: - understand the game - have some skills - have a lot of luck - know how to deal with others Un...

Well, I have witnessed it myself and also from a "top player". It happened a few times already in different circumstances and followed by different explanations. It always happened however after explosion of emotions: - he was leading almost the whole game and in the last round he just rec...

Billy,
I may have not proper understood you question, but are you suggesting that I have ever quit on you?

pmath1 - the reason for all this asking etc was because there are here a lot of cheaters, who start another accounts just to ruin others' games. They have a fresh account, start a game and they only intention is to invite a known player and later play the way, that this player would lose and got red...

14. Being chased is better than chase with a bad team It was written here a few things how a team tries to chase a low player and increase his score. It requires however a coordinated team play. If a team is not good enough, i.e. one of the players in the team does not understand the principles of ...

13. Communicate your intentions Let’s assume - you have 4 spades with an ace and queen. One diamond. You are high. „W” is low and „E” plays a spade to you. What would you do? Sometimes it is better to keep an Ace to the end to avoid exposing that you also had a Queen. But sometimes it is better to ...

12. Contradictory requirements and unclear conditions Thank you for good words, as you never can be sure if your actions would be interpreted in accordance to your intentions. I hope Iceman would repair those texts after he returns from Spain, as English is obviously not my mother tongue. I assume,...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone.

Sharing knowledge - as far as I know - should be beneficial for all and could be made by all having something valuable to say.

11. Do not open hearts for low Hearts are not possible to lead until someone drops a heart first - these rules are here mostly played. Imagine, that the low is the one, who takes the first point. Now he can lead a heart and you do not know, if he tries to moon, or is just kidding. It forces someone...

10. Do not play a suit, which low already hasn’t This a very simple rule. When you play a suit, which low already does not have, you help him to get rid of the cards, which are somehow problematic for him. He maybe did not have a Queen, but could have high diamonds, in example. By playing clubs, wh...

9. Try to cheat your enemy Tricky title does not mean you should feel encouraged to start an another account and try to play under another name :-) The best pat in hearts is, that it is a game on an edge between a common trust among members of a team trying to catch a low and trying to get in lead ...

8. Identify where the Queen is Easy to say, more difficult to achieve. There are hints, which you can use, to identify her. First of all - who leads spades? Who repeats leading spades? Why something else was played than a spade? Was there an opportunity to drop a Queen by a player (if would have a ...

7. Do not try to moon all the time This in most cases is practiced here by newbies, although old foxes do it from time to time as well. Like trying to moon 4 times in a row. True is that it is not so usual to succeed a moon, when players defended it good. Pure luck at dealing and a bad pass help a ...

6. Count cards in suits Unfortunately it is not only about the number of cards but also what particular cards left and who does not already have a particular suit. The first thing everyone should learn here. Number of hearts dropped in a round is displayed in the right corner on a score table. So t...

5. Try to play low A lot about it I have written in the first post of this topic. Playing low means to try to increase the score of the „low” player in order to make the scoring table as flat as possible. A „low” is a player who leads in the current game - has the lowest score. In this example play...

4. Pass reasonably Of course you will pass cards, which you do not need. Passing a heart is a good and simple protection against a moon. It is not a sure protection because the player, who receives your cards might have all the highest hearts already and your 8 of hearts made no difference. It is h...

3. Let others lead a card It happens often, that when you feel safe to drop a high card, you do it at the very first moment you can, to avoid taking QS on it later in the round. When you drop the highest card and take a lead, then you are safe with this card, but you now need to have an idea what t...

if you enjoy the tutorials, more to come: 1. Let others moon from time to time 2. Do not play spades to low 3. Let others lead a card 4. Pass reasonably 5. Try to play low 6. Count cards in suits 7. Do not try to moon all the time 8. Identify where the Queen is 9. Try to cheat your enemy 10. Do not...

2. Do not play spades to low Let’s draw a playing table. ...........N ......W.......E ...........S You are sitting at the „S” position (South). The score table: E: 20 S: 50 N: 50 W: 50 You do not have a Queen of spades (QS), you do not know where she is. A few of possible scenarios: 1 . E has a Que...

1. Let others moon from time to time Most of people play here an „Ask” type of game, instead of an „Old moon” type. It means, that after a moon, a player can decrease his/her score by 26 points, instead of increasing by 26 the score of all the others. As of course it is in most cases crucial here t...

OK, so after almost every game, players say a sacred: "gg".... Actually not every game was good. I would rather say, that less than 10% of them were good. Why do players say this and it sometimes compels others to say that the game was good? In my opinion a good game requires that every pl...

Since the discovery of aristo's 25+ different names and accounts used here only to ruin games of others' players and making a mess, a process of IPs tracing was widely used to trace such cheaters and abusers. Many here think, that you should be able to play totally anonymously, others think, that th...