A revoke occurs when a player (other than dummy), holding one or more
cards of the suit led, plays a card of a different suit. The penalty for
a revoke takes precedence of all other counts.
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A revoke is established if the trick in which it occurs be turned and
quitted, _i.e._, the hand removed from the trick after it has been
gathered and placed face downward on the table; or if either the
revoking player or his partner, whether in his right turn or otherwise,
have led or played to the following trick.
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The penalty for a revoke is three tricks taken from the revoking player
and added to those of the adversaries.
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The penalty is applicable only to the score of the game in which it
occurs.
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Under no circumstances can the revoking side score game, in that hand.
Whatever their previous score may have been, the side revoking cannot
attain a higher score toward game than twenty-eight.
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A player may ask his partner whether he has not a card of the suit which
he has renounced; should the question be asked before the trick is
turned and quitted, subsequent turning and quitting does not establish
a revoke, and the error may be corrected unless the question be answered
in the negative or unless the revoking player or his partner has led or
played to the following trick.
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If a player correct his mistake in time to save a revoke, any player or
players who have followed him may withdraw their cards and substitute
others, and the cards so withdrawn are not exposed cards. If the player
in fault be one of the dealer's adversaries, the card played in error is
an exposed card, and the dealer can call it whenever he pleases; or he
may require the offender to play his highest or lowest card of the suit
to the trick in which he has renounced.
If the player in fault be the dealer, the eldest hand may require him to
play the highest or lowest card of the suit in which he has renounced,
provided both adversaries of the dealer have played to the current
trick; but this penalty cannot be exacted against the dealer when he is
fourth in hand, nor can it be enforced at all from dummy.
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At the end of a hand the claimants of a revoke may search all the
tricks. If the cards have been mixed the claim may be urged and proved
if possible; but no proof is necessary, and the revoke is established
if, after it has been claimed, the accused player or his partner mix the
cards before they have been sufficiently examined by the adversaries.
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A revoke must be claimed before the cards have been cut for the
following deal.
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Should the players on both sides subject themselves to the revoke
penalty neither can win the game by that hand.
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The revoke penalty may be claimed for as many revokes as occur during a
hand; but the accumulated penalty shall in no event exceed thirteen
tricks.
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