Reverse Power (Low Card)
An interesting Variation we play with to increase the strategy is two fold.
First we play the Bird is ALWAYS the lowest trump card no matter what...It makes it tougher as you really have to try to protect/capture it.
Second in addition to that we play that the winner of the nest can call "low card". This exactly reverses the power of all the cards (Except the bird which remains low). So if you get dealt a cruddy hand full of low cards you can still bid to take the nest and then call low card to totally change the round. Only the winner of the nest can do this and it must be done when the nest winner calls the trump color.
So if Low Card is called the power is like this:
5 (highest power card)
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
1 (Lowest Power Card)
BB (lowest power Trump Card)
(if playing with the 2,3,4s then 2 is the most powerful then 3 then 4 etc...)
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