•The penalty for not winning the
amount of tricks bid blind is twice as much as a normal bid:
Underbidding/Sandbags
If you bid four tricks but win seven tricks, your score is only 43 (as opposed to a possible 70). You then have three sand- bags. For every 10 sandbags a team has, that team loses 100 points from their score.
Nil Bidding
If a player feels that a dealt hand is par- ticularly bad, the player may choose to bid nil (0 tricks). That player’s team wins an additional 100 points if they can keep from winning tricks. However, the team loses 100 points if they take any tricks.
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