Zwanzigerrufen

Contracts

• Normal Game — Partnership contract. Forehand calls a secret partner by naming the holder of Tarok XX (or XIX, XVIII etc. if forehand holds the higher cards themselves). Partnership is revealed only through play. Win condition: declaring side collects > 44 card_points. Tie at 44–44 is a loss for the forehand side.
• Solo — Declarer plays alone against all three opponents. Win condition: declarer collects >= 45 card_points.
• Farberl — Solo contract with inverted trump rules: Tarok cards do NOT beat colour-suit cards. A player may NOT play a Tarok if they still hold any colour-suit cards. Tarok may only be played when it is the player's sole remaining suit. Because Tarok holds no special power, Pagat Último is impossible in Farberl (excluded from its applies_to). Trull, however, remains valid: it is a hand-composition bonus (holding Sküs + Mond + Pagat) and does not require winning tricks, so the trump inversion does not affect it. Win condition: declarer collects >= 45 card_points. Lead-protection: when a tarok is led, the highest tarok played wins. The trump_override (suits beat trumps) applies only to colour-led tricks, not to tarok-led tricks. Sküs led always wins; Mond led wins unless an opponent holds Sküs; etc.
• Valat (announced) — Declared as a contract bid before play. Can be played as solo or as a partnership (using the call-the-XX mechanic, same as Normal Game). Win condition: the declaring side wins every single trick. No special rule changes beyond standard play. Rare — only viable with an exceptional hand.
• Solodreier — Declarer plays alone vs the other 3; talon is NOT picked up — both halves go to opponents. Win condition: declarer collects ≥ 36 card_points.
• Bettler — Testing variant borrowed from Königrufen. Negative contract — declarer must take ZERO tricks. Talon untouched. Stichzwang ON. Trump still exists. The Pagat (I) may only be played as the last card in the declarer's hand. Declarer leads first.
• Picolo — Testing variant borrowed from Königrufen. Negative contract — declarer must take EXACTLY 1 trick. Talon untouched. Stichzwang ON. The Sküs may NOT be played by the declarer. Pagat-as-last-card rule applies as in Bettler. Declarer leads first.
• Trischaken — Testing variant borrowed from Königrufen. All-vs-all — no declarer/partner. Loser = player with the most card_points; loser pays 5 base. Modifiers: ×2 if loser has >35 card_points; ×2 if Vorhand is the loser (stack multiplicatively, max 4×). Player with zero tricks is credited with the loser's base loss as a positive. Stichzwang ON. After each of the first 6 tricks one talon card is added face-up to the trick and counts toward that winner's card_points.