The twenty-seventh card is placed face-up on the face-down talon.
After shuffling and dealing that joker is placed face-up at the side of the pack closest to the dealer.
When a creature card is placed face-up on the grid, the creature is "summoned", and displayed perched on top of the field.
An open or lay down misere is a 500 bid where the player is so sure of losing every trick that they undertake to do so with their cards placed face-up on the table.
If playing the 2-player version, the "dummy's" cards other than the 3 bidding cards are first placed face-up and sorted by suit.
Anything that is declared must be placed face-up on the table.
The tesserae are placed face-up on a medium (often adhesive-backed paper, sticky plastic or soft lime or putty) as it will appear when installed.
After all the players' hands have been dealt, another card (the upcard) is placed face-up in a central location known as the discard pile or buy pile.
One pyramid is drawn from these tiles and placed face-up in the middle of the play area as a start tile.
The new cards are always placed face-up, except as detailed in the instruction for "Bärenkönig," whose replacement is played face-down.