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"NULLO."

AN AUCTION BRIDGE NOVELTY.

It is safe to say that every player at Auction Bridge has, at some time of ether, aat still hand after hand without being able to make a call, while he has seen his opponents piling up the points above and below the line.

It has, indeed, long been recognised that Auction is open to the charge that two good hands will have it all their own way. Several attempts have been made to remedy this, defect. One effort produced

Contract Bridge"; but even this game is open to the charge that good hands- t... hands holding the big cards-will nearly always get there," and when one is playing at so much a hundred, points even above the line all go in to swell the total.

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And so there has now come along the "nuldo" count. If this call generally known, and given a good trial, I believe it would be universally played. It remedies just the defect which other schemes have failed to remedy, for the first time, a really bad hand is given a value which enables it to compete with a really good hand.

A nullo call corresponds very closely to the favourite call of "misery" in Sole, In an ordinary hand at Auction you seek to make tricks In the raidlo! call you seck to lose tricks.

If I go one spade, I mean I will make one trick over six. "If I go une "null" 1 mean I will make one trick dess than seven. Similarly two nulls" means. I will make two tricks less than seven-that is, I am allowed to make five tricks out of the thirteen. It follows that one may bid up to seven nullos," at which point you may take no tricks at all.

· EVERYTHING REVERSED.

A few other particulars are decessary. There are no trumps when "nullon" are being played.

Ench trick in a "nullo""hand counts] 8, the same as hearts; but hearts beat nullos" (Thus, I go three "nullos"; my apponent goes three carte.. His bid beats mine.)

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The following point is confusing till mastered, 1 go three "nullos." There- fore I am allowed to take four tricks My store below the line will be 3 x 8-24, not. 4 x 932, because my contract was three "nullos," not four triska. Similarly five nullos means I may take two tricks only, and shall score 3 x 840, not 2 X-6-18:

It is, perhaps, easy to score null" it ya remember that everything is reversed," If I ga three nullos" I am allowed four tricks. If I get only three tricks I get cae "nullo" more than my contract, and I score it in the usual way. If, on the cther hand, I get five tricks. I only get two "null" (one less than my contract), and wry opponent would score, above the live, 50 for one trick down

"Nullon," of course, can be doubled, and re-doubled in the usual way. Aces écunt for honours, and score ne in no-trumps.

AN EXAMPLE,

It will take you a month or two, no doubt, to get into the "null" call. At first you won't like it. Few people do. But once you have mastered it, you will: never play Anetic without it, for it improves the game a hundred per cent.

Here is an illustration of its value, taken from personal experience. A and B are playing X and Y X had the ace of clubs, Y the queen of clubs. With the exception of these two cards and two jacks, A and B had every other high card in the pack. X and Y would normally have been able to say absolutely nothing. But they were playing the "full" call. and by calling "aullo" managed to push A and B to give no trumps, at which paint they managed to scrape, together thra tricks and get A and B one trick light. By B. 1. Dupwell in The Star.

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