How to play the "thousand" - this is a question many fans of card games ask. Indeed, the rules are not so simple, and the game itself requires the participants of the mind, analysis skills and the ability to take risks at the right time, and hold the horses at the wrong time.
Basic Rules
In the "thousand" they play in a company of 2-4 people, but the three of them will be the best at doing it. For the game, only cards from nine to ace are used, which are arranged by seniority like this - nine, jack, queen, king, ten, ace. The main goal of the game is to score a thousand points, and the one who makes this first becomes the winner.
Each "move" or "party" is divided into four consecutive stages - the delivery of all cards from the deck, bidding with the announcement of bets, drawing cards from hand and directly calculating the points that the players ultimately had in their hands.
Cards dealt
We describe how to play the "thousand" three together.
The first change is determined by the player selected by the draw, in the future the change will be made by the participant sitting on the left hand of the first hand, and so on. The deck is carefully shuffled, then the player to the left of the dealer removes the upper half of the deck and puts it down.
After the dealer deals, which card is in the deck below, and if it is a nine, then he shows it to everyone, and then the left player removes the deck again. If three times, when the left player was shooting the deck, there was a nine from below, then he will be fined 120 points. If the jack is below, then the dealer himself removes the deck, but only once.
After these complex manipulations, the game begins "thousand", which everyone will play with seven cards. The remaining three cards must be put open on the center of the table - this will be a buy-out.
Trade
At this stage, the participants actually begin to play the "thousand". How it's done? Very simple, bidding begins. All players compete among themselves for the right to place and collect points for themselves from this bet. The bid is most often called an "order". The first order is made by the deliverer. He makes her necessarily the size of a hundred points. Next, the bet is made by the player sitting on his left hand. He either raises the order or says “pass” and skips the trade in this round. Raise the bid by at least 5 points.
If a player does not have in the cards a pair of a king and a lady of one revenge (margin), then he cannot bargain above one hundred and twenty points. Also, the amount of points for which it is traded can never be higher than one hundred and twenty points + points for marriages, or marriages.
Points for cards are considered as follows:
- ace - 11 points;
- ten - 10 points;
- king - 4 points;
- lady - 3 points;
- jack - 2 points;
- nine - 0 points.
Margin points are slightly larger:
- peak marriage - four dozen points;
- on clubs - six dozen points;
- on diamonds - eight dozen points;
- on the heels - a hundred points, maximum.
This is how you need to play the "thousand." As is obvious, the rules are complex, but quite understandable. Players trade until two out of three players save. After that, all three cards are taken from the buy-in, opened and given to the winner. This player takes two unnecessary cards and gives one to each opponent.
How to play a thousand cards further? The winning player announces his final bet. It is impossible to lower it, but to increase it is possible. If, even after drawing cards, the player sees that together with the buyback he can’t get the number of points announced in the bet, then the only thing he can do is to “paint the deck”. The “deck schedule” is as follows - the participant loses the number of points that he bet, and his rivals get 60 points. The cards are dealt again, and the trade is new.
Raffle
If you want to play the thousand, how to draw points? In fact, quite simple. The first move at this stage is the dealer. He puts any card from his hand on the table. The next player clockwise puts on top a card of the same suit, either a trump card or any suit. This is done in the specified sequence. The one of the three participants who puts the card that is the highest in seniority takes all the cards and in the next step of the draw the first one goes in the same turn. Remember that the top ten is the oldest, above her only an ace!
If a player is holding a marriage, and he took the last bribe, then he can go off one of the marriage, lady or king cards and make this suit a trump card. On the first move there is no trump suit. Sometimes when declaring a marriage, slang is used - after the word marriage is added:
- “Papa,” “father,” or “he,” if the king is laid.
- “Mom,” “mother,” or “she,” if a lady.
- “It,” if you play with an ace marry and an ace is placed. Ace marriage means that four aces of different stripes make up a marriage.
In total, eight draws are held.
Scoring
When all cards are played, a procedure such as scoring begins. If a player never took a bribe for the entire rally, he receives a “bolt”. After receiving the third “bolt” is a fine of 120 points.
Points are calculated simply - the sum of all cards in the hands is considered, moreover, the king and the lady of the same suit are counted by the points of the margin. The winner will be the player who, according to the results of past rounds, will total a thousand.
However, the instruction on how to play the “thousand” cards would be incomplete if we had not talked about the “barrel”. As soon as a player scores 880 points or more, he sits on the “barrel”. His points drop to 880, and he needs to do the following:
- Bet more than 120 points in a bet.
- Win the trade.
- Score 120 points in the draw.
All this needs to be done in one move. The player will have three attempts, and if all else fails, his points will drop to zero.
Cards, a thousand: play together
Let's look at this option. Quite often, people ask themselves how to play the "thousand" together. Is it possible? Actually quite, and quite simple. At the beginning, each player receives 10 cards, and 4 remains in the draw: two closed piles of two cards. Then everything goes classically - first bargaining. The player who announces the maximum points wins it. This participant gets the right to open one pile lying on the table, show it to the second player and put the cards to him. Then any two cards are put by this player on the table in a closed pile. Then finally the next stage begins - the draw described above. If a player does not manage to score those points that he stated on bets, then he takes them from his points, if he succeeds, he adds everything that he received. There are usually no “barrels” in a game against one, however this can be discussed by the participants separately - it all depends on their desires.
The game is a thousand. You can play with the computer too
The "thousand" is not necessary to play with people. If you cannot find companions for yourself, and the fun attracts you, then it’s quite possible to play with the computer. There are many sites for this. They offer online flash options, as well as various games that you can install on your computer. You can play both with virtual opponents-bots, and with friends or people from the Internet. How to play a thousand cards with a computer? Very convenient, because he will count the points. However, the computer can be a very smart opponent, so be careful.
Individual arrangements
To make the game “thousand” more fun, you can play it with individual agreements. These arrangements can both simplify and complicate the process. Here are examples of such rules:
If at the time the trade started, the player has already spent 120 points, then he must pass.
If there are less than 5 points in the buy-in of cards, then the one who received it may require a re-issue if he was a dealer and bet 100 automatically.
During the draw, you can declare a trump suit on the first move by marrying anyone.
The rule of the "Golden Horse" - in the first three games, the points scored and not scored by the players are multiplied by two. In the first three games, each player must take a minimum of 120 points. If no one takes 120 points, then the game starts anew.
Ace Marriage. When a player holds four aces, then if he puts the first on the table, he will automatically receive 200 points, and the ace will be his trump suit. In the following draws, he is obligated to start the draw with an ace.
A game with bedding - a queen and a jack having the same suit make up a “mini-marriage” and cost 50 percent of the usual cost.
If a player has four nines on his hands, then laying out the first one on the table, he gets 360 or 200 points. Also, with 4 nines, a participant can, at his request, announce a re-issue of cards.
All these agreements are optional, and are negotiated by the players individually before the game.