Bidding

The bids are numbers: the lowest bid is 100 and all bids must be multiples of 5, so the possible bids are 100, 105, 110, 115, 120, etc. The highest bidder undertakes to win at least this number of points from cards in tricks plus declarations. The player to the dealer’s left bids first and must bid at least 100. The bidding continues clockwise and each player must either bid higher than the previous bid or pass. A player who has passed cannot bid again. The bidding continues for as many rounds as necessary until two players have passed. The final bidder becomes the talon winner.

Since there are only 120 card points, higher bids can only be fulfilled by declaring king-queen pairs called “marriage”. Players are not allowed to bid more than 120 unless they have at least one marriage on hands.