Belote

Variant played: Classic team Belote · 32 cards · Version 1.0.0

Objective

In teams of two, win tricks and fulfill the trump contract with more points than the opposing team.

Setup

1. 4 players in two alternating teams; 32-card deck, 7 through Ace.
2. Deal 5 cards, then turn up a proposed trump card.
3. First round: everyone accepts or passes on the turned-up suit; second round: choose another suit.
4. The taker receives the turned-up card, then the deal continues until everyone has 8 cards.

Turn or round flow

1. The player to the dealer's left leads.
2. Each player plays one card while following suit, trumping if required, and overtrumping if applicable.
3. The winner of the trick leads the next trick.
4. After 8 tricks, count points and verify the contract.

Legal actions and obligations

• You must follow suit if possible.
• If the requested suit is trump, you must overtrump if possible.
• If you do not have the requested suit, if your partner is currently winning, discard freely; otherwise you must trump.
• If an opponent has already trumped, you must overtrump if possible; otherwise, undertrumping is allowed.
• Trump order: Jack, 9, Ace, 10, King, Queen, 8, 7. Non-trump order: Ace, 10, King, Queen, Jack, 9, 8, 7.

Score

• Trump: V=20, 9=14, A=11, 10=10, R=4, D=3; others 0.
• Non-trump: A=11, 10=10, R=4, D=3, V=2; others 0.
• Last trick: 10 points; total excluding belote-rebelote: 162.
• King and Queen of trump, announced when played: 20 points.
• If the bidding team does not outscore the defenders, it is set: defenders 162, bidding team 0; belote-rebelote is kept by the team that declared it.
• Capot: 252 points for the team that wins all 8 tricks.

End of game

• The deal ends after scoring.
• The game ends at 1000 points or the room threshold; the highest-scoring team wins.

Locked special cases and variants

• Tie at 81-81: dispute; deal points may be carried over to the winner of the next deal according to the standard setup.
• Tierce/fifty/hundred/four-of-a-kind meld declarations, doubling, and all-trump/no-trump are disabled in this version.

Artificial intelligence

The AI uses only its hand, public cards, the allowed history, and the legal actions sent by the server.

• Easy plays the lowest legal card.
• Normal evaluates the trick, saves top trumps, ruffs when needed, and supports the partner.
• Hard remembers played cards, infers suits that are void, and evaluates the probability of each remaining card.