Wizard Card Game
Description
The trick-taking game&160;Wizard&160;uses a sixty-card deck that consists of the traditional 52-card deck (1-13 in four suits) along with four Wizards (high) and four Jesters (low)Players compete over multiple rounds based on the number of players and whoever ends with the highest score wins In each round players are dealt a hand of cards ? one card in the first round two cards in the second three in the third etc ? then trump is determined by flipping the top card of the undealt deck; if a suit is revealed that suit is trump while if the card turned up is a Jester it is turned down and there is no trump for that round If the card turned up is a Wizard the dealer chooses one of the 4 suits as the trump suit The dealer cannot choose no trump On the last round of each game all cards are dealt out so there is no trump Players then state how many tricks they expect to win in the roundThe playing and winning of the tricks uses mostly standard trick-taking rules If a player leads a suited card then all other players must follow suit if possible If a player leads a Jester then the second player determines the suit led If a player leads a Wizard then those who follow can play whatever they want However in all cases a player may&160;always&160;play a Wizard or Jester even if they hold cards in the suit ledAfter each player has played a card determine the winner of the trick as follows If one or more Wizards were played the player of the first Wizard wins the trick collects the cards and leads to the next trick If not whoever played the highest trump wins the trick If not whoever played the highest card of the suit led wins the trick If all players played Jesters whoever played the first Jester winsAfter all tricks have been played players tally their score for the round If a player matched their bid winning exactly as many tricks as stated at the start of the round they score 20 points plus 10 points for each trick taken If a player missed their bid they lose 10 points for each trick that they were off whether they took more or fewer than predictedA common variant in&160;Wizard is to not allow the total number of tricks bid in a round to match the round number thereby forcing (at least) one player to be off each round
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