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Games and slams

Requirements for a game

• 30 total points for a minor-suit game (11 tricks)
• 27 total points for a major-suit game (10 tricks)
• 24 honour points for 3 no-trumps (9 tricks)

Requirements for a small slam (12 tricks)

• 33 total points in a suit
• 33 honour points in no-trumps

The Blackwood convention

A bid of 4NT is usually asking for Aces (always after a suit fit has been found). The responses are:

• 5 ♣: No Aces
• 5 ♦: One Ace
• 5 ♥: Two Aces
• 5 ♠: Three Aces
• 5NT: Four Aces

Roman Key-card Blackwood is an optional alternative to the above

Showing controls

These bids may only be made from 3 ♠ upwards in the case of a fit in Hearts, or correspondingly higher for fits in other suits. For example, after the sequence 1 ♦, Pass, 1 ♥, Pass, 3 ♥, Pass, a bid of 3 ♠ shows a control in Spades. In any other sequence 4 ♣ is the lowest possible control showing bid