Sources and verification

Sources consulted

• Official Rules of Belote (new tab) (French Belote Federation): dealing in two stages, direction of play, rules that inspire the app's "Official" setting.
• Rules of Coinche Belote (new tab) (French Belote Federation): bidding, coinche and surcoinche, scoring of the coinche.
• Belote (new tab) (Pagat.com): general description of the game and its variants, including a two-player version.
• Coinche (new tab) (Pagat.com): coinche bidding and bidding variants (all trumps, no trumps, general).

Links checked on October 30, 2026. The site describes belote as the app plays it; these references are for comparison, and the federation remains the reference for rulings.

How the examples are checked

The site has 9 tricks, 15 deal scores, 6 declaration examples and 6 bidding sequences. Each one is calculated twice before publication:

• by the app's engine itself, read without being modified: allowed cards, winner and value of a trick, score of a deal, declarations, bids accepted or refused;
• by a second implementation of the rules, specific to the site, based on the text of the rules.

Both results must match what is displayed. The check also verifies that the cards in an example are all different, that the cards of the two teams add up to the total for the variant (152 points with a trump), and that the figures and labels quoted are those of the app.

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