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Goal
Your goal is to loose the least point you can.
Playing the game
The game is made of multiple hands (number of hands depends on the options you play):
- avoid making tricks (every trick counts -1 point)
- avoid taking hearts in tricks (every heart card counts -1 point)
- avoid taking queens in tricks (each queeen counts -3 points for a 52-cards deck and -2 points when playing with a 32-cards deck)
- avoid taking the King of Hearts (the Barbu) in your tricks (Barbu counts -12 point for a 52-cards deck and -8 when playing with a 32-cards deck)
- avoid taking the last two tricks (counts -4 points for the trick before last and -8 points for the last for a 52-cards deck and -3 points and -5 points for a 32-cards deck)
An extra hand (optional), the Salade when everything counts, so avoid making tricks, taking hearts, taking queens or the King of Hearts. All the point counts so Queen of Hearts is worth -4 points (with 52-cards deck), Barbu is worth -13 points (still 52-cards deck)...
Another extra hand (optional), the Anti-salade counts all the same points (tricks, hearts, queens, Barbu) with positive score.
Option "Trumps"
Only when playing on geronimo mode, you can choose to play Trumps. The taker choose the trump color and the goal is to take as much tricks as possible (tricks count +3 when playing 52-cards deck and +2 when playing 32-cards deck).
Option "Domino" (Klondike)
You can play an extra hand: the Domino.
During this hand, players have to play cards in a suite, starting from 2 (or 7 when playing 32-cards deck) to the Ace, for each of the 4 types.
When a player plays an Ace, he/she can play again. If a player can't play, he/she passes. But you can't pass if you can play any card (even if you wanted to).
Domino also counts points positively.
If you play with a 52-cards deck, the first player with no card left wins 25 points, the second 15 points, the third 5 points. The other players score nothing.
If you play with a 32-cards deck, the first player with no card left wins 20 points, the second 10 points. The other players score nothing.
3 or 5 players
The game is recommended to play at 4 players but you can play at 3 or 5 players. Some cards are removed from the game so that everyone has the same quantity of cards in hand. Here are the cards removed:
| Number of players | 32-cards deck | 52-cards deck |
|---|---|---|
| 3 players | 7 diamonds and 7 clubs | 2 diamonds |
| 4 players | nothing | nothing |
| 5 players | 7 diamonds and 7 clubs | 2 diamonds and 2 clubs |