DUMMY’S RIGHTS [LAWS 42 & 43]

DUMMY is NOT allowed to:

• Ask a Defender about a possible revoke.
• Look at an opponent’s System Card during the play of a hand.
• Draw attention, before the hand is over, to any irregularity, once it has been committed.
• Point out how many tricks have been won or lost.
• Suggest the Director be called before another player draws attention to an irregularity.
• Take any part in the play of the hand except to play the cards as Declarer tells him.
• Look at Declarer’s cards or his curtain card.
• Look (at his own initiative) at any card in a Defender’s hand.
• Ask any questions or make any comments on the hand.
• Leave his seat to watch Declarer’s play.

DUMMY IS allowed to:

• Keep track of tricks won or lost for his own information.
• Warn one of the other players he has put a quitted card in the wrong direction, but only until the next trick is started.
• Try to prevent Declarer from committing an irregularity. For example: saying, ‘Are you not in Dummy?’ when he is about to take a card from his hand. BUT it would be too late to warn him once he has played the card.
• Try to prevent Declarer from establishing a revoke, for example, saying ‘Having no clubs?’
• Try to prevent an irregularity on the part of a DEFENDER.
• Call the Director if one of the other three players draws attention to an irregularity.
• Give information as to fact or law when the Director is present BUT not to ask questions even if the Director is present.
• Draw attention to an irregularity once the hand is completed.