Batak
Turkey’s favorite trick game. Win the auction, name trump, then take your tricks while everyone must beat the trick or trump in. 4 players.
How to play Batak
- 1Four players, each on their own, with thirteen cards each. Aces are high.
- 2Starting left of the dealer, the bidding goes round and round. Bid how many tricks you'll take, from 5 to 13, topping the bid before you, or pass. Once you pass you're out of the bidding. If the first three all pass, the dealer has to bid 5.
- 3The highest bidder names any suit as trump and leads the first trick. Nobody may lead a trump until someone has played one, unless trumps are all they have.
- 4Follow the suit that was led, and if you can beat the best card of that suit in the trick, you must (once the trick has been trumped, any card of the suit will do).
- 5If you can't follow, you must play a trump, higher than any trump already in the trick if you can. Only with no trumps left may you play anything. The highest trump wins the trick, otherwise the highest card of the suit led, and the winner leads next.
- 6Everyone scores a point for each trick they took. The bidder must take at least as many as they bid: if they fall short, they lose the amount of their bid instead.
- 7After 8 deals the highest total wins.
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