You are the non-dealer. Your 15 cards: I, XXI, VII, IV, XVIII, K♣, Q♦, C♥, J♠, 2♦, 3♥, 4♥, 9♠, 10♠, 7♣.
Play, or pass?
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Play. You hold two of the three Trull cards (Pagat and Moon) plus a full court run (King, Queen, Cavalier, Jack) across four different suits. Note the K♣ sitting alone, with no Queen of Clubs behind it: in most Tarok games a lone King is only half a trick, but in this two-player game a lone King’s suit almost never gets trumped early, since your opponent would need to already be void in Clubs the instant it’s led, an unlikely coincidence this soon. Treat it as a whole trick, not a hopeful half of one.