The game is complete in one deal, and is won by the player who scores most
points, according to the foregoing table, exclusive of brisques. These
latter are only taken into account where the scores are otherwise equal.
If, after the addition of the brisques, the scores are still equal, the
game is drawn.
There is one other case in which the brisques are reckoned. The score of
1000 points is known as the "Rubicon," and a player not reaching this score
is "rubiconed." In this case, also, each player adds in his brisques; and
if the score of the loser is thereby brought up to 1000, he "saves the
rubicon."
Assuming that the rubicon is saved, the score of the loser is deducted from
that of the winner, fractions of a hundred being disregarded in both cases.
To the difference are added 500 points for game, and the total is the value
of the game, the stakes being usually so much per hundred points. If it
happen that the difference between the two scores is less than 100, it is
reckoned at that figure, making, with the 500 for game, 600. Thus, if the
respective scores are, A, 1510; B, 1240; A wins 1500 - 1200 + 500 = 800. If
A's score were 1550, and B's 1520, A would win 100 + 500 = 600.
If B is rubiconed, the value of the game is computed after a different
method. The points made by him (still disregarding fractions of a hundred)
instead of being subtracted from, are _added_ to the {22} score of the
winner, who is further entitled to 1000 for the game and 300 for
brisques.[12] Thus, if A has won 1320, and B 620, the value of A's game
will be 1300 + 600 + 1000 + 300 = 3200.
If the rubiconed player has scored less than 100, that amount (100) is
added to the score of the other player, as well as the 1000 for game and
300 for brisques, as before mentioned.