Scoring. The points for dix, melds, and the last trick are all scored with the counters in the ordinary way, but the score for cards must be kept mentally. The moment any player correctly announces that he has reached 1000 points, he wins the game, no matter what the others may have scored. If his claim is not correct, he retires, and the two remaining players finish alone. If neither wins the game that deal, they play the next deal as in ordinary two-handed Binocle, with a stock, the ultimate winner taking the stakes. If it has been agreed that the lowest score pays when the first player goes out, the game is ended as soon as one retires. If two players reach 1000 points without either having claimed the game, they must both go on to 1250; but if the third player reaches and announces 1000 before either of the others reaches 1250, he wins the game.
The Revoke. The individual player in error loses his entire score for “cards.” The bidder cannot be set back if either adversary revokes. He may demand that the hand be played out if he thinks he can get a good score.
GAIGEL.
This is sometimes called Short Binocle. It is played by two persons with the forty-eight card pack, and the melds are reduced to the following values:—
| King and Queen of a plain suit | 20 |
| Double marriage in the same suit | 40 |
| King and Queen of trumps | 40 |
| Double marriage in trumps | 80 |
| Any five Nines | 101 |
Two single marriages in the same suit cannot be melded at different times. Game is 101 points.
FOUR-HANDED BINOCLE.
Four persons may play, each for himself, or two against two as partners, sitting opposite each other. All the cards are dealt, twelve to each player, four at a time, and the last is turned up for the trump.
Melds are not made until the player holding them has played to the first trick. The eldest hand leads and then melds; the second player plays and then melds, and so on. The card played to the first trick may still be reckoned in the melds.