Each trick taken costs the collecting player 15 points.

Each trick you take scores +5, resulting in a total of 65 points for this game.

Sometimes your will to learn a trick will take you through.

Each trick taken scores -2 points for a total of -26.

The first to bid and win 5 tricks takes the pot.

For example, if a player who has bid four takes exactly 4 tricks, he scores 14.

That seemed unlikely, because the tricks he had learned with the conventional paddle should have taken most of his training time.

Since the Leaguer knew he had little hope of escape, the real trick would be taking him alive.

Maybe one of his office staff left some trick and Andy took it by mistake.

At one table, however, the first trick took an interesting course.