beats a lower-ranked counterplay. When playing with this optional rule, it is also convenient to use the variantion above that the players may only slough cards of the denomination they themselves played. Optional rule: A player who can make a counterplay must do so. If you play as usual – that is, without the optional rule above – this means that a player who has one or more cards of the highest rank in the trick up to that point must play one or more of these cards. If playing with the optional rule above, the following applies: a player who can play one or more cards of a rank that has already been played to the trick must do so, unless a counterplay of another, higher rank has already been made. In such a case, the player cannot tie the trick and may play any card. A player who can counterplay in several different denominations must counterplay in the highest one. A player who doesn't like his cards may play the top card from the talon to the trick. This is called taking a chance or daring. The winner of a trick leads to the next. The player who draws the last card from the talon may neither look at this card nor play it to a trick, but leaves it face down next to self. Players continue to play from their hands, until any player whose turn it is to play a trick has no cards left. If at this point the last trick is not completed, all players take back the cards they played to that trick. Variation: When a player has taken the bottom card from the talon, the current trick is completed if possible and phase 1 is then over. If the last trick cannot be completed, all players take back the cards they played to that trick. Between phases When phase 1 is over, the player who drew the last card from the talon turns the card over so it is visible. The suit of the card indicates trumps in phase 2. Players pick up all the cards they have won in tricks and combine them with any cards left in the hand or taken back from the last trick. The player who drew the last card from the talon also picks up this card. Optional rule: If at this point one or more