Carte Blanche (a hand without a single court card)[9] 50
Marriage in plain suits 20
Marriage in trumps[10] 40
Sequence in plain suits 150
Sequence in trumps 250
Single Bezique 40
Double Bezique 500
Treble Bezique 1500
Quadruple Bezique 4500
Four Knaves (irrespective of suit) 40
Four Queens " 60
Four Kings " 80
Four Aces " 100
For the last trick 50
The procedure as to playing and drawing is the same as at ordinary Bezique,
save that the tricks are {19} left face upwards in a heap between the
players until a brisque is played, when the winner of the trick takes them
up, and turns them face downwards, near himself. The value of each brisque
is ten points, but they are not scored till the close of the game, and in
certain events (see _post_) may not be scored at all.
Only one declaration can be scored at a time, and that only (save in the
case of _carte blanche_) by the winner of a trick; but if, on the cards
exposed, the player has more than one combination to score, he may score
whichever he prefers, at the same time calling attention to his further
claim by saying, "And ---- to score." A player is not bound to declare any
combination, even when exposed upon the table, unless he thinks fit. If he
is compelled to play a card of the combination before he has actually
scored it, the right to score is at an end.
A card declared in a given combination may not again be declared in an
_inferior_ combination of the same class--_e.g._ a king and queen declared
in Sequence cannot be afterwards made available to score a Royal Marriage.
The same card may, however, be used in conjunction with a new card or cards
to form, not merely a combination of the same kind, but the same
combination over again.[11] Thus, if Four Queens have been declared, the
player may play one of them, and, when he next wins a trick, add a fifth
queen to the three left on the table, and again score four queens.
If a combination, duly scored, is broken up, one {20} or more cards must be
substituted, either from the cards upon the table or from the hand of the
player, to entitle him to a fresh score. There is an apparent exception to
this rule in the fact that, if a player has declared two independent
marriages in the same suit, and all four cards are on the table
simultaneously, he may make two more declarations of marriage with the same
cards. In truth, however, this merely follows the rule. King 1 (already
"married" to queen 1) may again be married to queen 2; and king 2 (already
married to queen 2) to queen 1 in like manner.
A player who has two or more declarations to score may elect which he will
score first, the other remaining in abeyance; _e.g._ a player having
declared Four Kings, including the king of spades, and subsequently
declaring Bezique (the king of spades still remaining on the table) would
_ipso facto_ become entitled to score a Marriage, royal or ordinary, as the
case might be. We will suppose the former. In such a case, he would say, "I
score forty, and forty for marriage to score." This declaration should be
repeated, by way of reminder, after each trick, till actually scored. If,
in the meantime, the player becomes entitled to score some other
combination, he may, on winning a trick, score the latter in preference to
the one previously declared, still keeping this in reserve. The mere fact
of having declared a given combination "to score" does not preserve the
right to score it, if in the meantime the declarant either plays one of the
cards composing it or makes use of them to score some higher declaration of
the same class.
The last nine tricks are played like the last eight {21} in the ordinary
game; but the winner of the last trick, instead of 10, scores 50.