Today, I won two 2 mark hands. They were pretty similar in that, for the last bone that I would play, I need it to be a "walker." Which means that it needed to be the top value in its suit with no trump possible.
The first hand was: 1:1 2:2 4:4 5:5 6:3 3:3 3:2. For this hand, I called no trump, and led the 6:3 as a three. One of the opponents knew I was going to walk a small three but my 1:1 drew out his 3:1. So when I played my 3:3 it would draw out his last three. And I would claim with the 3:2.
The other hand was: 4:4 6:4 4:3 4:1 1:1 3:3 3:2. For this hand, I called 4's as trump. I needed that no one on the opposing team had all three of the remaining 4s. Fortunately, they did not and I was able to run trump out. Next up was to play my double 1, the double 3, and then the 3:2. Once again, no one had "protection for threes" (meaning that they could keep two threes and play the low one on the double three and keep the high one to stop the 3:2).
The initial draw was amusing today. When there are more than four people waiting to play a game, we each draw one bone randomly and the people who hold the highest four bones will play. I drew a 6:5 so I was guaranteed to play. The second to the last person drew the 1:0. And, surprisingly, the last person drew the 0:0 (4% chance)!
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