How to Collude with Other Players in Barbu

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Barbu, in many ways, besides it drawing strength from or drawing resource from the other card games, is also a game much like hearts where you're aiming for a particular player. In the card game hearts, you're aiming for the low man, you're aiming for the person that has the low score, your objective is to try to pin the queen of spades on them. In the game of Barbu, if my opponent over here has a big ole' positive point lead because on the score sheet, the typical Barbu score sheet it will, everybody has a right to look at the score sheet and see the accumulative score for the players in any given hand. So, if Joe, over here is winning by sixty points, you're not going to let me get all these positive points. You're going to try to put a king of hearts on me, you're going to try to dump queens on me in the queens game, you're going to try to do everything you can to thwart me, even if it means giving tricks to the other, or giving points to the other opponent, your mission is to deprive me from taking points. Your mission is to double and, you know, try to gain points from me, try to set my bids. Now, remember when you double, in the game- for example: king of hearts, that king is a free card to throw at any time. Well, what do you think is going to happen in a good game? People are going to try to throw the king of hearts on me, cause that's a thirty point penalty. Everything is geared toward aiming for the high player, which is parallel to aiming for the low player in hearts, so you work together, you collude, you form a temporary partnership. If it turns out over here that Barb now gets the lead, then I turn my attention with the other players to get Barb. There's no sense in playing every man for himself because you're going to have a situation similar in hearts, that somebody's off to some big ole' lead and the other's are playing for second place. And, unless you like playing for second place, that just doesn't work, so you work with people, with the common objective of burning the player with the high score.

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