You are Forehand. Your hand: II, III, 3♥, 4♥, 3♦, 4♦, 7♣, 8♣, 9♣, 7♠, 8♠, 9♠.
Claim the Rufer, the Bettler, or pass?
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Answer
Claim the Bettler. Count it: 2 Taroks + 0 doubles for the big ones + 0 Kings = 2, a bare 2. Read backwards, that is not a weak hand, it is the Bettler profile exactly: all four suits represented, no face card above a Jack anywhere, and every pip sits at the safe end of its suit. Reds rank 1 highest, then 2, 3, 4, so the safe end is the 3s and 4s (the 2s are the second-strongest red pips, not safe at all); the blacks sit at 7, 8 and 9, clear of the 10 that ranks highest there. And check your Taroks for gaps before any Bettler claim: with II and IV you would be trapped, one III lead and the Rising Rule forces your IV to win it, and the Bettler dies on the spot. II and III sit back to back instead, so no lead can ever force a jump like that. The 12-point count tells you when to climb the ladder; here it tells you when to reach for the negative contract instead.