You claimed the Dapp. Your eighteen cards: XX, XVIII, XV, XII, IX, VI, III, Q
, C, J, 4, Q
, J, 4, C
, 8, 7, 8
.
Which six do you keep?
Answer
XX, XVIII, XV, XII, IX, VI. You had seven Taroks to choose from and six of them beat any color card: keep the six highest and let the lowest Tarok (III) go with all eleven color cards, so that you are void in every color suit at once. That leaves you with three Taroks from the XV up, the XX, the XVIII and the XV, the number the rebuild aims for. Every Queen, Cavalier and Jack you discard still lands in your own pile at the end, 12 pips without a trick. Skus and XXI never appeared among your eighteen cards, so both are sitting somewhere in the six opponents’ hands: your XX leads are not unbeatable, but the six you kept are the best cards available to you, and you are void in every color suit.