For Sequence of five best trumps--ace, ten,
king, queen, knave 250
Brisques--aces or tens in the tricks won by
either player, _each_[7] 10
In order to score, the cards composing the given combination must be all at
the same time in the hand of the player. A card played to a trick is no
longer available (unless a brisque) to score.
A player can only "declare" after winning a trick. Having won a trick, he
is at liberty to score any combination he may hold, laying the cards
forming it face upwards on the table. If the cards exposed show two
combinations he may declare both, but must elect which of them he will
score, reserving the other till he again wins a trick. Thus, having king
and queen of spades and knave of diamonds on the table, he would say, "I
score 40 for Bezique, and 20 to score." When he has again won a trick,
having meanwhile retained the needful cards unplayed, he can then score the
second combination (Marriage).
A card which has once scored cannot be again used to form part of a
combination of _the same kind_: _e.g._ a queen once used to form a Marriage
cannot again figure in a Marriage, though it may still score as part of a
Sequence, or as one of "Four Queens." In like manner, a card which has once
figured in "Bezique" cannot be used to form part of a second Bezique,
though it may be used to score Double Bezique. Neither can a card which has
been {15} declared in a given combination again be declared in a
combination of an inferior order; _e.g._ if a king and queen have been
declared as part of a Sequence, a Marriage cannot afterwards be declared
with the same cards--though their having figured in a Marriage would be no
bar to their subsequent use as part of a Sequence.
The declared cards, though left face upwards on the table, still form part
of the hand, and are played to subsequent tricks at the pleasure of the
holder.
When no more cards are left in the stock, the method of play alters. No
further declarations can be made, and the only additional score now
possible is for the brisques (aces or tens) in the remaining tricks (scored
by the winner of the trick), with ten for the last trick, as before stated.
The mode of play as to these last eight tricks is according to Whist rules.
Each player must now follow suit, if he can; if not, he is at liberty to
trump.[8]