Variants and declarations
In brief
The app offers 3 variants: With trump, No trump, Coinche. Declarations (sequences and four of a kind) are played if the Declarations setting is set to yes. The Rules setting chooses between the House conventions and an Official scoring scale, closer to the federation's rulebook.
No trump
No suit trumps: the trick always goes to the highest card of the suit led. Players bid in a single round, with no turned-up card, and there is no belote. The Ace is worth 11 points under House rules, 19 under Official rules.
Coinche
A numbered contract and its trump suit are announced; the defense may double (coinche), and the taker may redouble (surcoinche). The bidding and the scoring each have their own page.
Declarations
A sequence is made up of consecutive cards in the same suit, in the order seven, eight, nine, ten, Jack, Queen, King, Ace. A four of a kind is four cards of the same rank. Declarations count toward fulfilling the contract.
| Declaration | Points |
|---|---|
| Tierce (three consecutive cards) | 20 |
| Fifty (four cards) | 50 |
| Hundred (five or more cards) | 100 |
| Four Jacks | 200 |
| Four Nines | 150 |
| Four Aces | 100 |
| Four Tens | 100 |
| Four Kings | 100 |
| Four Queens | 100 |
Four Sevens and four Eights don't count. Only the team with the highest declaration scores, but it scores all of its declarations.
- South 7 of hearts8 of hearts9 of heartsAce of spades10 of clubsKing of diamonds7 of clubs8 of diamonds: 20 declaration points
- West 10 of spadesJack of spadesQueen of spadesKing of spades9 of clubsJack of diamonds7 of spadesAce of diamonds: 50 declaration points
East-West scores 50 points. South has a tierce in hearts, West has a fifty in spades. The highest one wins: only East-West scores.
- North Jack of spadesJack of heartsJack of diamondsJack of clubs7 of hearts8 of clubsAce of diamondsQueen of spades: 200 declaration points
North-South scores 200 points. Four Jacks in the same hand: it is the highest four-of-a-kind in a trump game.
- South 9 of hearts10 of heartsJack of hearts7 of clubsAce of diamondsKing of clubs8 of diamondsQueen of diamonds: 20 declaration points
- East 9 of spades10 of spadesJack of spades7 of diamondsAce of clubs8 of clubsKing of heartsQueen of clubs: 20 declaration points
North-South scores 20 points. Two tierces of the same rank. Under House rules, the taker's team wins.
- South 9 of hearts10 of heartsJack of hearts7 of clubsAce of diamondsKing of clubs8 of diamondsQueen of diamonds: 20 declaration points
- East 9 of spades10 of spadesJack of spades7 of diamondsAce of clubs8 of clubsKing of heartsQueen of clubs: 20 declaration points
East-West scores 20 points. Under Official rules, the tierce in trump comes first: East-West scores, even though they are not the taker.
- West Ace of spadesAce of heartsAce of diamondsAce of clubs7 of hearts8 of clubs9 of diamondsQueen of spades: 100 declaration points
East-West scores 100 points. Under House rules, the scale for four-of-a-kind stays the trump scale, even in no-trump.
- West Ace of spadesAce of heartsAce of diamondsAce of clubs7 of hearts8 of clubs9 of diamondsQueen of spades: 200 declaration points
East-West scores 200 points. Under Official rules, no-trump has its own scale: Four Aces becomes the highest there.
House or Official rules
The setting is chosen in the New game window and stays the same until the end of the game. House is the default choice. The app's opponents are set to the House scale.
| Rule point | House | Official |
|---|---|---|
| Coinche score | to the exact point | rounded to the nearest ten |
| Base of a doubled capot | 160 | 250 |
| Ace in no-trump | 11 points | 19 points |
| Four-of-a-kind in no-trump | trump scale | no-trump scale |
| Tied declarations | the taker's team wins | the trump declaration wins, otherwise nobody scores |
| A card in two declarations | allowed | not allowed |
| Declarations after a failed contract or a capot | the team that won them keeps them | they go to the team that wins the deal |
| Under-trumping in Coinche | mandatory | discard allowed |
| Doubling out of turn | allowed | not allowed |
