Void
Definition
Having no cards in a particular suit. Being void in a fail suit is valuable because you can trump in when it's led.
Void in play
Being void in a fail suit - holding none of it - is a strength, because when that suit is led you may trump in and win. Pickers bury toward voids on purpose, and defenders prize natural voids for stealing tricks. The flip side: a void is only useful while you still have trump left to use it with.
Example
“"I'm void in clubs" means you have no clubs, so you can trump club leads.”
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Related Terms
Trump In
To play a trump card when a fail suit was led (because you have none of that fail suit). A way to win tricks you otherwise couldn't.
Fail (Fail Suit)
Any suit that is not trump. In Sheepshead, Clubs, Spades, and Hearts (without their Queens and Jacks) are fail suits.
Bury
After picking up the blind, the picker must discard ("bury") 2 cards face-down. These count toward the picker's team's points.