Back Alley

Number of decks: 1
Number of cards in the deck: 52
Number of players: 4 (two by two)
Seniority of the cards: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, B, D, K, T, small Joker, big Joker.
Purpose of the game: to score the most points for 2 games.
Rules of the game. The game appeared around the 1960s during the Vietnam War among the US military. Two players play in two. Players playing in a pair sit opposite each other. The first deliverer is determined by lot, and in the next games the player of the losing team becomes the handler. The deck is carefully packed, it must be removed and each player is dealt 13 cards each. After that, players look at their cards, and starting with the player to the left of the handler, the teams are announced how many bribes they can take. You can only declare one time. The subsequent announcement of taking bribes should be more than the previous one. The team that announces the taking of more bribes, assigns a trump card to the game and makes the first move. A player of this team can go with any of his cards, every subsequent player clockwise must put a card of the same suit, if there is no card of that kind, then he can put any card. If the first laid out map is a big joker, then every subsequent player must put his senior trump card. If the first laid out card is a minor trump card, then each subsequent player must put his own trump card. The player who places the highest card in the draw of the bribe, takes the laid out cards (bribe) and starts the next trick. After drawing all the cards, players count the points for the cards. The team, which carried out its announcement and took the announced number of bribes, receives 10 points for each taken bribe. The team that made the announcement the second and doubled, tripled or quadrupled the previous announcement and took this amount of bribes, gets doubled, tripled or quadrupled points for each taken bribe that is 20, 30 or 40 points. Usually, two games are played and the team that will score the most points becomes the winner.
Note. There are many varieties of the game. For example, you can play without jokers. It is possible to play a deck of 42 cards, in which there are no deuces, threes and fours, play ten bribes in the game. There is a kind of game where peaks are permanent trump cards. You can play without partnership in the game, where each player plays for himself.