Every card from both hands and all six piles will fill exactly 27 tricks. It is trick 26 of 27, the second-to-last. You hold the II in your hand, untouched all hand.
Under the house rule's II Ultimo, what exactly must happen for you to claim it?
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You must win precisely trick 26, the second-to-last of the 27, with the II. Play any other card on that trick, or let the II win any other trick, and the II Ultimo simply never happened: the timing is exact, mirroring the family’s Ultimo pattern in the other chapters. the bonus’s value awaits the scoring summit; the timing rule itself is fixed regardless.