Renege
Infractions of the rules of bidding, melding and play are known as reneges. In case of a renege, the play ends, and the opponents of the team that reneged score 162 points plus meld. If both teams renege in one hand, the hand is not scored and must be redealt by the same dealer. Possible reneges are:
- Failing to follow suit, trump or overtrump when able to do so.
- Advising or signaling your partner in any way during the play.
- Looking at any previous trick after a card has been played to the following trick.
- Making the trump suit without any cards of the trump suit.
- Announcing or showing meld out of turn.
- Exposing cards, except to play them or show a scoring meld.
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