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How to play Belote: rules and scoring

  • 4 players
  • Partners
  • 162 + announcements

Goal: Score with your partner and be the first team to 1000 (or the chosen target).

Setup

  • Two teams, partners facing.
  • A 32-card deck; 8 cards each.

How to play

  1. One team takes trump (bid for in Coinche).
  2. In trumps the jack and nine are highest.
  3. Announcements and belote score extra; only the team with the best announcement scores its own, but belote always counts.

Scoring

Card points162
Belote-rebelote20
Capot250
Dedans (in this app, an 81–81 tie too)all to the others
Coinche / surcoinche× 2 / × 4

Winning

  • The first team to the target wins.

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