Four players in two teams, partners across the table. A deck of 32 (7 to Ace).
Five cards to everybody (three, then two) and the next card is turned up. First round: take its suit as trumps, or pass. Second round: name another suit, or pass. If all pass twice, the cards are dealt again.
The buyer gets the turned card and two more, the others three more: eight each. At this table, in the first round whoever holds the seven of trumps may take the turned card for it.
Trumps: J 20, 9 14, A 11, 10 10, K 4, Q 3, 8 and 7 nothing. The other suits: A 11, 10 10, K 4, Q 3, J 2. The last trick 10 more: 162 in all.
The melds, declared before the first trick: three in a row 20, four 50, five or more 100; four Jacks 200, four Nines 150, four Aces, Tens, Kings or Queens 100. Only the team with the strongest melds scores them (level: the one in trumps, or nobody).
The King and Queen of trumps in one hand: “Belote”, 20, announced when the first of them is played.
Follow the suit led; with none, you must trump. A trump must beat the trumps already in the trick when it can (not so in the other suits). Tap a card to play it: the ones you may play are lit.
The buyers must make more points than the others; if not, they are “in” and the others score everything. Level: the others score theirs and the buyers’ points hang for whoever wins the next hand. All the tricks (capot): 250 instead of 162.
The first team to 1001 points wins.
Chips: both players of the winning team get 100, the others -50. Against bots only, a win pays by their level.
Leaving costs chips after the first 8 cards played. Once there is a winner, leaving is free. How many depends on the table (its length, the stakes and the players or bots); the leave window always shows the exact number.
The chips written here are for a whole game with people. A shorter game, or easy bots, pay less; hard bots pay more. What your table really pays shows at the end of the game (and before it in the «Table» panel, in the games that have one); the leave window always shows the exact leave cost.
Daily win limit: the games pay up to 1500 chips of wins a day, all of them together. The win that reaches it is paid in full; after it you can go on playing as usual for fun, and the chips come back the next day.