Make it so you can call your partner by calling a card
When we play at home you choose trump and then which card is your partner. So you are not always partner with the same person. After winning the nest you call "red is trump and the red one is my partner". Adds a little twist.
Another description:
We've always played a variant whereby the partner is 'called' by the winner of the bid, i.e. 'red 14 is partner.' The partner is unknown until that card is played, table talk is forbidden. Scoring is shared between partners for the round only, but the game is won by the first individual player to reach 500.
May not be the best variant to play against the computer, but a lot of fun against real people; the objective often becomes to partner with and 'screw over' the person in the lead
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Mike Smart commented
100% agree I play it the same way, for decades now and love the game just need to add this rule into the game so I can choose partner card each hand. Thank you for your suggestion hopefully gets added real soon.
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Pcastleberg commented
We also play this way sometimes, it makes it easier to fill holes and generally increases how high the winning bidder on the nest has to bid. I would suggest that if this variation is added (and I would like to see it) that it would be accompanied by logic that makes the AI more aggressive in bidding on the nest.