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Coinche

Belote coinchée · 2 teams

Belote with an auction. Bid a contract with your partner, from 80 to capot, coinche the other side when they overbid, and make your points to reach 1000.

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Play Coinche online for free

Coinche, also called belote coinchée or belote contrée, is the way most of France plays Belote today, and you can play it free in your browser: you and a bot partner against two bots, or a private table for four friends and family. No download, no account.

It is Belote with an auction. Nothing is turned up: each player sees all eight cards, and the teams bid how many points they will make and which suit will be trumps. The other team can coinche (double) a bid it thinks will fail, and the bidders can answer with a surcoinche.

How to play Coinche

  1. Deal. Everyone gets eight cards, dealt three, two and three. Nothing is turned up.
  2. Bid. From the dealer's left, bid a contract from 80 to 160 in tens, or capot (every trick), with a trump suit, or pass. Each bid must be higher. Three passes after a bid end the auction; if all four pass, the cards are dealt again.
  3. Coinche. An opponent who thinks the bid will fail can coinche it: the contract now counts double. The bidders can surcoinche to make it four times.
  4. Play. Belote's rules: follow suit; out of the suit, trump unless your partner is winning; always go over a trump if you can. Say belote and rebelote with the king and queen of trumps.
  5. Score. Made: the bidders score their contract plus their points, the defenders their own points. Failed: the defenders score 160 plus the contract. First team to 1000 wins.

Play with a bot partner

The bots never see your cards. Easy bots bid on a hunch; Medium bots value their trumps, aces and tens before bidding, raise your bid when they hold the jack or nine of your trumps, and cash their master cards; Hard bots bid their hands in full, coinche when they sit over your trumps, and count every card played. Choose a game to 1000, a long one to 2000 or a short one to 500, and add sans atout and tout atout or announcements if your table plays them.

Learn the full Coinche rules

The deal, card order and points, bidding from 80 to capot, coinche and surcoinche, sans atout and tout atout, and how a deal is scored when the contract is made or goes down.

Read the full Coinche rules

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Play in other languages: Français