You are Forehand. Your hand: Skus, XVII, XIV, X, VII, IV, K♥, Q♠, C♣, J♦, 2♥, 9♠.
Do you claim the Rufer?
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Answer
Claim the Rufer. Count it: 6 Taroks + 2 doubles for the big ones (the Skus and the XVII, both XV and up, cards that reliably win a Tarok fight) + 1 King = 9, comfortably inside the Rufer’s “several Taroks with a big Tarok, Trull piece or King” profile. That’s not the double-digit bar reserved for a lone Dreier; a partnered contract can claim on far less, with the called partner and the talon’s small change still to come.