Batak vs Bluff Game

Batak is a variant of popular trick-taking card game Spades. Batak is also known by many other names, including Oh Hell!, Elevator (l'Ascenseur in France), Up and Down the River (in Australia and New Zealand) and 10 op en neer in the Netherlands. In Britain it is often known as Nomination Whist, a name which also sometimes refers to different games. Other names include Bust (in Australia and New Zealand), Boerenbridge (in the Netherlands), Kachuful (in India) and German Bridge (in Hong Kong). A standard 52 card deck is used. The cards in each suit rank (from high to low) A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2. 13 cards are dealt to each player. A player leads the first card. Each player must follow the suit led, if he can. If not, he should play the trump, or any suit if he has no trump. The player who has played the card with the highest value ( the trump card or the card of the suit led, if no trump was played) wins the trick. That player then leads to the next trick. Continue until all tricks have been played and won. The game has two modifications: simple and auction. In the simple game the object is for each player to bid the number of tricks he thinks he can take in the hand, then to take at least that number of tricks. In the auction game a player offering higher bid wins the auction. He has to take bid number of tricks or more. Other players have to win at least one trick.

Game Purpose: To win the game; you must be the only one who plays out his cards first or still has chips to play. If your chips are over, you will lose the game. How to Play? This game is played with four people. A total of 52 cards in the deck is dealt to the players in equal numbers. The players begin to the game with 13 pieces of card and equal chips depending on the price of table. The player who will start the game determine the quantity of chips and rank of the cards (Trump) for the cards he will discard (at least one piece, maximum 4 pieces) (i.e 8, 3, J, Q) Turn passes to the next player. The next player has three choices: 1- He may say Pass. The chips in the quantity corresponding to the price of pass are blocked in the safe box. Safe box: Blocked chips box for the winner. 2- He may say Bluff! Two different results may arise when the player cleared away the last discarded cards. a) In case discarded cards are different from declared cards.( i.e. Bluff) The chips of the player discarded cards in the quantity that corresponds to the price of the cards are blocked in the safe box. The player last discarded cards retakes them into his hands. The player catching the bluff get the right to determine new trump. b) In case discarded cards are the same with declared cards.( i.e. not Bluff) The quantity of chips that was assigned by the player for the cards he discarded is blocked in the safe box by being taken from the player who cleared away the cards. The next player continues the game from the same trump and chips. 3- He may discard a card. The quantity of chips corresponding to the price of the last discarded cards is returned to his owner. He had to support the cards that he discarded as much as the minimum quantity of chips corresponding to the price of the last card. He may also support with more quantity of chips. He may discard at least 1 card, maximum 4 cards. The next player continues the game from the same trump and chips. To obtain the right of trump determination; you are supposed to catch bluffing or to be the player throwing the last card(everybody has said pas). Bluff Game is played with a deck of playing cards. There are only four pieces from each card in this deck. For example; four pieces of two, four pieces of three, four pieces of four etc. If you're lucky enough, you may have four pieces from the same card. This means that, nobody else has this card! If you determine this card as a trump, when anybody throws a card after you, you can easily catch his bluff. Since you will not always be so lucky, you have to follow the trumps in the game strictly and thrust your own intuitions.