Board Game Arena

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If your partner has depended on trumping multiple short suits when making their bid the strategy of clearing trump may backfire. It is a good strategy to discount your bid if you are very short in spades. When you make a bid, you should always ask "can i make my bid if someone leads spades 3x ...

If it is the last hand of the game and you have to set to stay in the game, you should always force a 14 bid (if you cannot bag them or nil to win).
This maximizes your points and lessens your bags.

There is no prize for 2nd, so you if you need to set them to stay in the game, you bid 14.

To Merlin Bags are rarely bad. It is rare for 1 team to lose simply cause they had 10 bags. More likely it is cards or sets. So if u dont try for sets you are allowing luck to dictate wins and losses. Here is the math most dont understand. 19 bags is -81 pts. -100 +19 If u set a 4 bid, they dont gai...

The issue is….most players in arena dont know the fundamentals so almost every 11 bid is available to be a set. It is rare to play a game with 4 strong players. And if that is the case, none of them are going to duck a trick early on…. Cause good players win games on sets or luck of cards. Winning a...

Good point about players who may never played other trick games… Also, a good point that a lot of people dont even realize what they are missing… A lot of players really think it is 2 individual bids and not a team bid. I often overbid to steal tricks based on what i see….if a partner just takes the...

Happened again.

Someone had 8 bid.

They chose to lead non-spades after trump was broken.

The little bid got to cross trump with their loser spades and set the 8 bid.

Of course, the person broke the fundamental rule and said “i know what i am doing, i have played spades for 30 years….”

I still disagree. I just played a game… We had 7 bid. 1 bid vs 3 bid for opps. 1 bid gets her bid. Next club, she holds king. Lets we win with 9 of clubs. Her p has 0/3 tricks. We lead spades. …. I have AJ10 of spades. Since i know the 1 bid is ducking cause she has “her bid” i know she wont take an...

And while you are tossing 9 and 10 cause you dont think you can set, you have a partner tossing Q and J cause they have their bid. And then my team sets you with 7 and 8s. If you go into a 11 bid trying not to set. And trying to get your bid perfectly, you are still going to get 1 bag and mad maybe ...

it all depends on the situation and table position in most cases. the less JQKA you have in your hand..the more likely the other 3 players will be bidding 11-13 as a total... so if the table is a 12 bid...your nil is much easier to be made because the opps have to worry about getting set. obviously ...