Auction of To-day

Summarized Penalties

For the benefit of those who wish to hastily ascertain the penalty for an offense or to refer to the law upon the subject, the following table of summarized penalties has been prepared. It does not include every possible penalty, but merely those of most frequent occurrence.

OFFENSE	PENALTY	LAW
Revoke by Declarer	150 points	84a
Revoke by Adversary	150 points or 3 tricks	84b
Revoke by Dummy	None	63
Second revoke in same hand	100 points	84c
Lead out of turn by Declarer	None	77
Lead out of turn by Adversary	Exposed card or Called lead	76
Card exposed during deal	New deal	37c
Card exposed after deal and before end of bidding	Partner cannot bid nor lead suit of card and card may be called	65
Card exposed after end of bidding and before lead	May be called and if exposed by Third Hand that suit not be led	66

Card exposed during play by	Declarer	None	72
	Adversary	May be called	{67 {72

Two or more cards played at once by adversary	All may be called	70
Not playing to trick	New deal	81
Playing 2 cards to trick	Liable for revoke	82
Playing with less than 13 cards	Liable for revoke	38
Holding 14 cards	New deal	37d
Misdeal	New deal	{36 {37
Dealing out of turn or with wrong cards	May be corrected before last card is dealt	40
Declaration out of turn	New deal	49
Double out of turn	New deal	57
Pass out of turn	None	49
Insufficient declaration	Made sufficient and partner debarred from bidding	50
Impossible declaration	Made 7 tricks and partner debarred from bidding; or new deal; or previous declaration may be made final	50
Dummy’s calling attention to any offense	Penalty for offense eliminated	61
Dummy’s suggesting a play	It may be required or prohibited	62
Declarer’s naming or touching card in Dummy	May have to play it	64
Adversary’s calling attention to trick	Partner may be required to play highest or lowest card or win or lose trick	92
Giving information about bidding after final bid	Called lead	51
Fourth Hand playing before Second	Second Hand may be required to play highest or lowest card or win or lose trick	80
Cutting more than one card	Must take highest	16