Talk:Game of Nancy/@comment-132.241.208.245-20121209104800

Apologies beforehand for the lengthy post.

My rule sheet says (and I quote):

"Once the Taker has completed the Nancy, the player to the dealer’s right leads the first trick by placing a card face-up on the table in a new pile and establishing the suit. This card can be played from the player’s hand or taken from the cards that were dealt face-up on the table. Each player then follows, playing a single card of the same suit on this trick, and the trick is won by the highest card of the same suit or by the highest rump if trumps were played. Whoever wins the trick then places the cards in his or her “trick pile” (or for the Taker, they place the winning trick in the Nancy). The player to the right of the player who won the trick then goes next."



My major question (and the only confusion that is really preventing me from playing this game) is this:

Does the trick a) end once the turn order gets back to the player who started the trick or b) go until there are no cards left in any players hand?

Example (with 4 players):

Scenario A

Player 1 starts with a 5 of Swords. Player 2 follows with a 9 of Swords. Player 3 follows with The Boatman (Trump 4). Player 4 finishes with Regret (Trump 7) and takes the trick. Player 2 then starts the next trick and the pattern repeats. (Does Player 1 get a response here after Player 4? If Player 2 play a Trump that can't be topped do Player's 3 and 4 play a card of the original suit? any card avaliable to them?)

Scenario B

Essentially Scenario A played out round and round and round until someone has played the highest Trump card avaliable to them (possibly before or after the Outsider has been played) and the trick ends, leading to an entirely new deal and a new trick.

If Scenario B is the play style, then do players just stop a trick once Death (Trump 21) has been played? Do they relenquish their cards to whoever played it? Etc.