Watten
The Alpine partnership game. One side names a strike rank, the dealer names trump, and the first team to three tricks wins. Raise the stakes if you dare. 4 players, in partnerships.
How to play Watten
- 1Four players in two partnerships, partners sitting opposite. Only the 7s through aces are used (32 cards). Each player gets five cards; the rest stay face down out of play.
- 2Before anyone plays, the player left of the dealer names a rank to be the strike, and then the dealer names a trump suit. Both choices are announced to everyone.
- 3The strike card in the trump suit is the top card and beats everything. Next come the other three strikes, which are equal: of those, the first one played wins. Then the trumps, ace high down to 7, and then the suit led, ace high. Anything else can't win.
- 4The player left of the dealer leads. You never have to follow suit, with one exception: when a trump is led, you must play a trump or a strike if you have one.
- 5The first team to take three tricks wins the hand, and play stops there. A hand is worth 2 points.
- 6On your turn, before you play, you may raise the hand by 1 point. The player on your left answers for the other team: play on at the higher value, or give up and let your team score what the hand was worth before the raise. Each team must wait for the other side to raise before raising again.
- 7A team with 13 or more points can't raise. The first team to 15 points wins.
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