The player of a Piccolo commits himself to make one trick, not more and not less. Apart from that, the rules for negative games apply. In a Piccolo game, you can subdivide your hand cards in the following categories:

• Safe takers
• Unsafe takers
• Unwanted takers
• Unsafe non-takers
• Safe non-takers

The Piccolo player should act follows:

• If he can lead the first card, this should happen two times only, he should try to make the unwanted takers non-dangerous by playing them as first card. Because of the over trumping obligation, the opponents must take them if possible.
• If he has reached the committed number of tricks already or he has enough safe takers left and he is forced to overtrump the highest card on table, he should choose a card that could be over trumped by a following opponent if any possible.
• If he has not reached yet the committed number of tricks and he has no safe takers left, he should try to save his unsafe or unwanted takers against over trumping by an opponent.

The opponents of the Piccolo player should act as follows:

• As long as the Piccolo player is still missing his trick, you should prefer to play higher cards of those suits not played yet or of tarock to make it more clear where he is strong or weak.
• If the Piccolo player has taken his trick already, leading of a lower card makes most sense when the Piccolo player is at the last position and he could still have one card of that suit. Leading such a lower card could be especially promising if you have the King of that suit additionally and some cards between King and the lower card are outstanding. Also, your partners should not be forced to trump this suit with tarock.
• If you cannot recognize such a possibility, you should try to reduce the tarocks in your hand and in the hands of your partners.