7-UP

We played this game tonight and it is a lot of fun! Simple rules: Each team's total bid must equal 7.

So if I bid 3, my partner has to bid 4 so that it equals 7. If my partner bids 2, then I have to bid 5 so that the bid equals 7....so on. The total bid will be 14, which means one team will go set each hand. You would think this would be a quick game, but its not. We played 5 hands tonight and the score was 1-3! So it isn't posted in the rules to have a hand limit, but I hightly recommend it!

The strategies for this game are pretty simple: first of all, you want to take as many tricks as you can so you are not the team to go set. Secondly, if you are bidding before your partner, try to bid as many tricks as you think you can take and if your bidding low, remember that your partner has to make up the 7 bid so try and help him/her out.

You can bid nil or double nil if you are the first partner to bid. Remember the total bid between both partners has to be 7 so if your partner bids 3 you cannot bid nil, but if you bid first and think you will not take any then you can bid nil BUT then you are setting your partner up to make a 7 bid.

After playing this for a while tonight I finally bid nil when I was the first to bid. My partner had to bid 7 and she made it because the other team had to bid 7 also so they were all trying really hard not to go set.

This game is a lot of fun and how the cards fall really has a lot to do with it. Good luck playing and let me know if you have anymore strategies to this game!