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Official rules for Belot
Belot is a game for 4 people (two teams of two). There are
variations for 2 and 3 plaers !ut
those are not popular at all. The game is plaed with 32 standard
plaing cards. "rom a standard
dec# of cards ou remove the 2$s 3$s 4$s %$s and &s.
Rules of the game
The plaers sit so that team'mates face each other.There are 4
stages to the game
. ealing
The dealer* if he+she so wishes shuffles the dec# and hands the
dec# to the plaer on his+her
left* who then cuts the dec#. ,nti'cloc#wise ever plaer is dealt
3 cards and su!se-uentl 2
cards. ow ever plaer has % cards.
2. Bidding
The point of the dealing is to determine which game is going to
!e plaed out. /ere are the
possi!le games0
2. 1pecific trump game.ith a trump game one of the suits is
decided as a trump suit* the rest are e-ual in strength.
The strength of the cards of the trump suit are as follows (
descending order).
**,*5*6*7*8*9. ith the rest of the suits the strength of the
cards is as follows0 ,* 5* 6*
7* * *8 *9 , trump card is stronger than an card from an other
suit.
2.2 o Trump game.
There is no trump in this game and the strengths of all the
suits are as follows0 ,* 5* 6* 7* *
*8 *9.
2.3 ,ll Trumps
/ere all the suits are trump suits i.e. the strengths of the
cards is as follows0 **,*5*6*7*8*9
Bidding proceeds as follows0 The first !idder is the plaer to
the right of the dealer. /e
proposes one of the variants of the game (i.e. chooses a trump
suit or
no trump or all trumps. :f he does not wish to propose a game he
will !id pass. The
ne;t plaer can suggest a higher game or pass. The lowest game
is
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opponent has alread (trumped) and ou cannot follow suit ou must
pla a higher trump
if ou can (otherwise ou can pla an card).
3.2 o Trumps game 1ame as the specific trump game !ut there is
no trump and the onl
rule in pla is the following of suit.
3.3 ,ll Trumps game. /ere all suits are trumps so as well as
following suit ou must give a
higher trump if ou can regardless of who is winning the
hand.
4.Scoring
,t the end of the game each teams counts their points from the
hands the have won. The ta!le
!elow outlines how much points each card carries0
.Bonuses
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:f a plaer holds the following com!inations of cards and
declares so when plaing his+her first
card of that game wins for his+her team the respective
points0
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:n 1pecific Trumps game rounding difficulties arise when the
score ends in &.
,gain the team with less points rounds up. A;ample with
%&'5& ou score &'5 and
&'%& the teams score '% and so on.
, special case is when the game is 1pecific trumps or ,ll trumps
and one of the teams has a
!onus of %5 or %5. this ena!les the score of %4'%4 in ,ll trumps
and 5&'5& in 1pecific
trumps. :n that event the points that are hanging are rounded
up. :n the first e;ample the teamthat didn$t !id wins % points and
& points hand and in the second e;ample the non'!idding
team wins 5 points and points are left hanging.
