Slovenian Tarok — Puzzle C1

All three others have passed; the choice is yours. Your hand: III, V, VII, IX, K♦, Q♣, J♠, 2♥, 3♦, 7♣, 8♠, 9♠.

slovenian-tarok Puzzle #151

Do you keep to Three, or fall back to klop?

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Answer

Klop. Four small Taroks with no honours and no big Tarok to win fights, three lonely court cards scattered across three different suits with no Queen or Cavall behind any of them: no called-game profile survives the talon. Dodging Card Points with a hand this thin beats promising 36 you cannot reach.