When only two players stand, the last before the dealer is bound to play either his own hand or dumby, and the game is re-commenced.
Sometimes no trump is turned up; the elder hand then plays his highest card, the next follows suit, if he can, and so on. If all have not been able to follow suit, the dealer turns up the top card of what is left of the pack, and the highest card of that suit which has been played wins the trick. If all players have followed suit, the dealer waits for an opportunity, when all have not followed suit, to turn up the trump card. When no trumps have been played, the highest card of the suit led wins the trick.
UNLIMITED LOO.
The method adopted in playing Unlimited Loo is much the same as that already described above, excepting that the pool is not divided among the players. Still, a player must take all three tricks to win the pool. Therefore, when the tricks are won, should they have been taken by one person, the pool is his; but if the tricks are divided, the pool is left untouched, and is added on to the next pool. The players also who are looed have to pay double the price of the deal into the pool.
Thus the game goes on, until some one winning three tricks takes the pool. The next hand then becomes Bold Stand, and is dealt and played as first described.
The technical terms used in Loo which must be understood are as follows:—
Bold Stand.—To have a bold stand is a method of playing the game in which it is a rule that whenever there is only the deal to be played for every person is obliged to stand in order to make a loo for the next hand. As often as this happens it is a bold stand.
Dumby.—The spare hand, which must be dealt in the regular order of the other hands, either first or last but one, and not according to the dealer's whim.
Force.—The same as Bold Stand.
Heading the Trick.—Playing a better card of the suit led, or not having any of the suit, trumping it.