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is the main boss and can catch any cards during a play.

Rook offers many variations of game play. When Rook is chosen by my family on game night we like to play in teams of two. Each team mate sits facing each other with their competitors to each side of them. We include the Red 1 in our game play so each player is dealt nine cards. Each player looks at their cards and decides if they will bid. The highest bid will take the other six cards left over from the deal that we have placed in the middle of the table we call the Widow but also has been called the nest. Sometimes we bid just to to bid, sometimes we bid just to run the bid up, sometimes we bid to call trumps, and sometimes we bid to save the Rook. What ever reason we are motivated by we bid until we get what we want "the Widow". Of course you are under no obligation to bid and may pass on your turn to bid if you wish to do so. The person who takes the Widow then decides the color in which they will call Trumps. Trumps is the color the person is holding the highest number of cards in and/or the one they have the most color of. Once trumps is called the person leads out the first round choosing a card from their hand. They may lead with trumps or their choice of another color. Play follows with the same color as lead unless a player does not have that color. When someone does not have the color they can choose to play "off" a card other than the color lead. The choice of what to play is up to them. If trumps was not lead and they have a trump and do not have the color that lead they may play the trump and catch the cards on the table unless trumped higher. The person who makes the catch will then lead the next round. When all nine cards in the hand has been played the score is tallied. Our point cards include: the 14 worth (10 points),the 10 worth (10 points) ,the 5 worth (5 points),the Rook worth (20 points), and the Red 1 worth (30 points). If you won the bid and made it with your points the points are positive to your total. If you won the bid and did not make the bid you voiced back with your points your bid is subtracted from your score. If you do not make your bid often you may in fact end up with a negative score. When the score is negative we say the team is in the hole and draw a circle around their score. A normal game for us is played until one team reaches a five hundred score. It is at this time we must choose to play another hand or call it quits for the night.

Rook is one of my family favorits.

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