876

876 keeps score for the bid-your-tricks card game — the one where you say how many tricks you will take, and get nothing at all unless you are exactly right. It does not play the game. It counts it, argues less than your friends, and remembers every hand. THE DEAL IT KNOWS Sixteen rounds: eight cards down to one, the one-card hand played twice at the turn, then back up to eight. It works out the deal for your table, and when there are too many players for eight cards each it repeats the longest hands rather than quietly shortening the game. Screw the dealer is built in. The dealer bids last and may not make the bids total the hand — so the app greys that number out and tells you which one it is. No more counting on fingers while four people wait. A SECOND SCREEN FOR THE TABLE Put an iPad in the middle of the table and everyone can see where they stand: big scores, who is still to bid,…