Card rules · 2026-11-02

A Captured Trick Is Not Automatically a Point

Winning a trick decides who collects its cards. Scoring decides what that collection is worth. A game can count tricks, count particular cards or reward another stated target.

Winning a trick decides who collects its cards. Scoring decides what that collection is worth. A game can count tricks, count particular cards or reward another stated target.

In one exercise, every trick earns one point. In another, only a designated card scores. A player can win a trick without that card and therefore collect no points in the second exercise. The trick winner has not changed; the scoring unit has.

Write the collected cards before calculating the score. Counting each trick as one point when the rules count cards produces the wrong total even if every trick winner was identified correctly.