* If either player hold the king of trumps, he must announce it before playing his first card, or he loses the right to mark it.

* If it is a Grand game ( in which only the jacks are trumps )

#* If the top trump (♣ J ) is held, count the length of the flush run of trumps

#* If the ♣ J is missing, count the missing trumps from the top

If a player has the Ace of trumps the player may turn over the cards remaining in the deck stub, one at a time, until a trump card is turned, then he may discard his weakest card in favour of the trump card, or choose not to.

) If cards contradict each other on the same issue, the more specific one takes precedence ( e. g., " this player's hand size is seven " trumps " everyone's hand size is four ".

If a player who is not starting a new trick cannot follow suit and trumps have been declared, the player must play a trump.

If the player cannot follow suit or play trumps, the player can play any card.

* If the player has a king and a queen of the same suit in his hand, he may declare that suit to be trumps.

If yes, that suit becomes trumps.

If yes, that suit becomes trumps.

If this is not possible, a lower-ranked trump, or any card if the player has no trumps, can be played.

If a player's hand contains no trumps or no court cards ( roi, dame, cavalier, valet ), the player can declare Misère, which gives the declarer 30 points and subtracts 10 from the other players scores.

If a player has 10 or more trumps in their hand, they can declare a single ( 10 +), double ( 13 +), or triple ( 15 +) " handful " ( poignée ), right before playing their first card.

If the only trump played is a 3, you hold the 2 and the Ace of trumps but no cards of the lead suit, you must play the Ace of trumps.

# If you have neither any cards of the lead suit nor any trumps, you may play any card.

If the contract was no trumps, the result is multiplied by two.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

`` If you hadn't I'd have killed you ''.

If we have to we'll take him apart and see what he's made of ''!!

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

If these people were denied a voice ( do they have a moral right to a voice??

If we want respect from ourselves or others, we will have to earn it.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If you cut down these horrible buildings you'll have no more traffic jams.

If I am to speak the whole truth about my knowledge of love, I will have to stop trying to emulate the transcendant nightingale.

If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

If we grasp this opportunity to build an age of productive partnership between the less fortunate nations and those that have already achieved a high state of economic advancement, we will make brighter the outlook for a world order based upon security and freedom.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

If Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his complicated meditations this is where he should have had it.

If Krutch is correct, tragedy may have quite the opposite effect.

`` If you can firmly make the good knight sure to pleasure our Corporation '', Sturley wrote, `` besides that ordinary allowance for your diet you shall have 20 for recompence ''.

If he borrowed money from Shakespeare or with his help, he would now have been able to repay the loan.

If any one of them has any power to veto the Secretary General's decisions the nature of the organization will have changed.

If he can bounce back with one of those 25 home runs years, the club will have to be better off offensively.

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

If he can't play with Mommy's magazines, he should have some old numbers of his own.

If they also defeat the school bill, the GOP task force won't have much research to do.