Ace-No-Face

Before bidding begins, if a player’s 5-card hand has at least one ace and no face cards at all (no jack, queen, or king, so aces, 10s, and 9s only), that player may request a redeal instead of playing the hand out.

A hand like A-10-10-9-9 qualifies. A hand like A-K-10-9-9 does not; the king disqualifies it, even with an ace present.

If the player requests a redeal, the hand is thrown in immediately: no score change, and the deal passes to the next player, same as a misdeal.

Only one player at a time is offered the choice. Going around from the dealer’s left, the first player found holding an ace-no-face hand is asked; if they decline, the scan continues to the next player left of them, and so on. Each seat is only offered once per deal; nobody gets asked twice, and the dealer’s own seat can qualify too if it gets that far.

If Farmer’s Hand is also active and a hand happens to qualify for both, Ace-No-Face takes priority: that player is offered the redeal, not the swap.