Editing Sheepshead (card game) (section)

====Calling sheepshead====
One variant allows the picker to call "sheepshead." This means that the picker believes he can take every trick. If he succeeds he receives twice the number of points for a trickless game, but if he misses a single trick (even one lacking points), he must pay twice the value his opponents would have paid him for a trickless hand.

*  The picker is almost always required to play alone if he calls sheepshead. Because of this, it is generally applied only to the ''jacks'' variant, or cut-throat games.
*  Sometimes the picker is not allowed to call sheepshead if he does not have the jack in five or six-handed games.