Tute

Spain’s partnership classic. You must try to win every trick, sing kings and queens for 20 or 40, and take ten for the last trick. 4 players, in partnerships.

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How to play Tute

  1. 1Spain’s classic trick-taking game, for four players in two partnerships: partners sit across from each other.
  2. 2Play with 40 cards: the eights, nines and tens are taken out. Everyone gets ten cards. The dealer’s last card is turned face up, and its suit is trump for the hand. It belongs to the dealer and stays on show beside them until they play it.
  3. 3From high to low, each suit runs A, 3, K, Q, J, 7, 6, 5, 4, 2.
  4. 4The player after the dealer leads first. Whatever is led, you must try to win the trick: follow suit with a higher card if you have one, or any card of the suit if you don't (or if someone has already trumped). If you can't follow suit, you must trump, and play a higher trump than one already there if you can. Only when you can't do any of that may you play anything.
  5. 5The highest trump wins the trick, or else the highest card of the suit led. The winner leads next.
  6. 6Right after you win a trick, before you lead, you may sing a king and queen of the same suit from your hand: 20 points, or 40 in trumps. One song per trick won, and each suit can be sung only once.
  7. 7Holding all four kings or all four queens when you win a trick, you can call Tute: your team takes the hand at once and wins 2 games.
  8. 8Your team scores the cards it wins (aces 11, threes 10, kings 4, queens 3, jacks 2), its songs, and 10 for the last trick. The team with more points wins the hand and one game (on a tie, whoever took the last trick wins it). Taking every trick wins 2 games.
  9. 9The first team to win 4 games takes the match.

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