Barush, barouche?
A Fulton
with some variations at the end.
Thanks
Ann
The deck consists of 40 cards, a regular deck with the 2, 3 and 4 cards
removed. Jokers are not used. Aces
and tens have a value of 10 points each, and fives count 5 points each.
Players play on teams of two, with two teams playing at a time. Team mates sit
opposite each other at the
table.
Players cut for deal, high card winning the deal. The dealer shuffles the deck
then deals clockwise one card
to each player, and dealing four cards into the middle during the deal. Each
hand will then have 9 cards, with
four in the center.
Player to the left of the dealer has the first bid. He bids a number according
to the cards in his hand of how
many points he thinks he could take in tricks if he were to win the bid and name
trump. Players bid
clockwise, but each following bid must be higher than the previous one, or a
player may pass. The bidding
stops at the dealer, who has the option of taking the bid for the highest bid
made, or passing it to that bidder.
If no bid has been made, the dealer may take and any points made count for him.
The winning bidder gets the four cards dealt in the middle and adds them to his
hand. He must then decide
which suit he will choose for trump (this can change from his original intention
because of the cards he picks
up). Then he discards face down four cards from his hand so he again has 9
cards. He cannot discard an ace,
ten or five card, as these have point value. He should try to discard cards so
that he is short of one or two suits.
The object of the game now is to take tricks with point cards in them, so as to
make the number of points he
bid. His partner tries to take tricks and also put point cards on the tricks his
partner wins. The other team
tries to ‘set’ the bidding team by taking tricks with as many points as possible
in them. Tricks themselves
count nothing, only the point cards have value.
The first trick is lead by the winning bidder, who leads any card in the suit he
has decided will be trump.
Although there are nine tricks to be taken, there are 10 trump. A good player
keeps track of all cards played
and especially the number of trump remaining. Each player must follow suit,
highest card taking the trick. If
a player cannot follow suit, he may trump the trick, and if his trump is highest
played, wins the trick. He may
also play any other card if he cannot follow suit.
The winner of each trick leads for the next. When all cards are played, each
team counts the points contained
in tricks they have taken. The bidder shows the cards discarded, to show he has
not thrown out any
counters.
If the bidding team makes as many as they bid or more, they receive that number
of points. The opposing
team always gets any points they make. If the bidding team did not make as many
points as they bid, their
score goes down the amount that was bid, regardless of how many points they
actually made.
The deal then goes to the player to the left of the last dealer.
The first team to make 500 points wins the game, or if one teams goes 500 points
‘in the hole’, the other
team wins, provided their score is 0 or higher. If there are more than four
people playing, the winning team
stays on and plays the next team.
Strategy: Usually the winning bidder will attempt to short suit himself and keep
as many trump as possible
when discarding his four cards. This can be tricky if a player picks up some
'counters' in the middle which he
must keep in his hand. The bidding team leads trump for a few rounds to flush
them out of his opponent’s
hands, so they cannot trump in and take tricks that way. Hopefully, his partner
will have a card or two that
can take a trick, since the bidder usually has to keep some cards that could
allow the opposition to score
points. His partner tries to lead large cards so that the dealer can get rid of
any point cards he was forced to
keep when forming his hand.
Variations:
Some people play with the full deck. This makes 12 tricks to be taken, and 13
trump in total.
Some people play that the bidder can discard counters when making his hand.
Points count for the bidding
team.
Some people play auction bid, with the bidding continuing until three
consecutive people have passed, with
the bid going to the highest bidder.
Some people deal two or three cards at a time.
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Richard Kennard
Sounds a great deal like Five Hundred (500) to me. John McLeod
maintains a very thorough rules site at...
http://www.pagat.com/euchre/500.html
...and my girlfriend and I run a site where you can play with others
online against friends or the computer (and can even ask a tutor for
advice!) at...
Many thanks,
Richard.
John McLeod
>Has anyone ever heard of or played this game? Here are the rules as we play it,
>with some variations at the end.
A rather similar game is described in Culbertson's 'Hoyle' (1950) under
the name Chinese Bridge. That is, the card values (ace = 10, ten = 10,
five = 5) are the same, and it is a four-player partnership trick-taking
game with bidding, where the players bid according to the number of
points they undertake to try to make. There is also a 4-card kitty for
the high bidder. There are differences - for example in 'Chinese Bridge'
the trump suit is mentioned as part of the bid, it is possible to bid
'no trumps', and there is a special score for a bid of 100. No
particular target score is mentioned - presumably the players just win
or lose money proportionate to their scores over a number of deals.
Your game is also very similar to the game of 200 (Deux Cents), which is
played in Eastern Canada, the most obvious difference being that in that
game the target score is 200 rather than 500.
>Player to the left of the dealer has the first bid. He bids a number
>according to the cards in his hand of how many points he thinks he
>could take in tricks if he were to win the bid and name trump. Players
>bid clockwise, but each following bid must be higher than the previous
>one, or a player may pass.
Is there a minimum allowable bid? (In Chinese Bridge and in 200 the
minimum bid allowed is 50 points).
What happens if all four players pass?
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 Richard Kennard <Richard Kennard
<richard...@hotmail.com>> wrote:
>Sounds a great deal like Five Hundred (500) to me.
It is not the same type of game. In 500 you bid and play for a number of
tricks. In Barouche, the object is to take tricks containing scoring
cards (aces, tens and fives) and tricks that do not contain any of these
cards are worthless.
--
John McLeod For information on card games visit
jo...@pagat.demon.co.uk http://www.pagat.com/
A Fulton
I wouldn't have dreamed posting here without doing a thorough search of the web,
especially John McLeod's excellent site.
I have not had anyone say they have played this game yet. Perhaps it is quite
local. I'd still love to hear from anyone who has played it.
--
Cheers,
Ann
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Violet Landrie
> I used to play barouche when I was younger. The maximum bid is 100, as that is the total of all points. The minimum is 30, which is what the dealer has to bid if all 3 other players
Joyce Kane
> > I used to play barouche when I was younger. The maximum bid is 100, as that is the total of all points. The minimum is 30, which is what the dealer has to bid if all 3 other players
> Hi my family and friends played this game for years except we took out the sizes too.