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Wizard is the trick-taking card game by Ken Fisher, published in Canada in 1984 and a fixture in Germany since AMIGO's 1996 edition. This is the free browser version: three to six seats and AI opponents trained by self-play.
Predict your tricks exactly
Before each round you announce how many tricks you will win. Then the round is played. You only score if your bid is exactly right — one trick too many costs you as much as one too few. That is the whole game: sometimes the hardest thing a round asks of you is to lose a trick you cannot help but win.
Wizards and Jesters
The deck holds 60 cards: the numbers 1 to 13 in four suits, plus four Wizards and four Jesters. A Wizard always wins the trick it is played into, a Jester always loses it, and both may be played at any time — even when you could follow suit. If several Wizards land in one trick the first one wins; if the trick is nothing but Jesters, the first one takes it.
Trump
After the deal the top card of the remaining stock is turned face up and its suit is trump. Turn up a Jester and the round is played with no trump at all; turn up a Wizard and the dealer names the trump suit, before hearing anyone's bid. In the final round the whole deck is dealt out, so no card is left to flip and there is no trump.
Scoring
Hit your bid exactly and you score 20 points plus 10 per trick. Miss it and every trick of difference costs you 10 points, over or under. A bid of zero that holds is worth 20 points, which makes it the steadiest bank in the game. The running total is kept in the Book of Truth.
3 to 6 players
Round one deals a single card to each player, round two deals two, and so on until the deck runs out: 20 rounds with three players, 15 with four, 12 with five and 10 with six. Shorter matches can be picked in the start menu. You can also switch on the “Plus/Minus One” variant, where the last bidder may not make the bids total the number of tricks available.
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Wizard is a game by Ken Fisher, published in Germany by AMIGO. This is an independent free browser adaptation; the rules above are summarised in our own words.