Bazar Blot 2 on 2

The game

Blot is a card game for four: two pairs, partners sit opposite each other. In every deal the pairs bid — who names the trump and how many points they promise to take — then play 8 tricks and count the points. The pair that first reaches 151 (or 301) wins.

Table and cards

• The deck has 32 cards: 7, 8, 9, 10, jack, queen, king and ace in each suit.
• Suits: hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades. Short: A — ace, K — king, Q — queen, J — jack; K — king of hearts.
• You sit at the bottom, your partner opposite at the top, the opponents on the left and on the right. Everything goes clockwise: after you, the player on your left speaks and plays, then your partner, then the player on your right.
• Everyone gets 8 cards. The player after the dealer speaks first and leads first. The next player deals the next deal. No redeal because of bad cards.

Bidding

• Players speak strictly in turn. On your turn you may say a bid, “pass” or — against the opponents’ bid — “contra”.
• A bid is a number and a suit (“9 ”) or a number and “no trump” (in the game — A, e.g. “10 A”). The number is points in tens: 9 promises 90 or more, cards and combinations together.
• The smallest bid is 8, the largest is 80.
• You can only outbid with a bigger number; the suit doesn’t matter: after “9 ” you may say “10 ” or “10 A”, but not “9 ”. You may outbid your partner and your own bid.
• Bidding ends when four players in a row say “pass”. The suit of the last bid is trump; a “no trump” bid has no trump.
• If nobody bids, the next player redeals.

Example: you — “8 ”, an opponent — “pass”, your partner — “9 ”, then four “pass” in a row. Your pair’s “9 ” stays: hearts are trump, you need 90.

Capot

• Capot means taking all 8 tricks. The “capot” bid is worth 25; it is said with a suit (“capot ”) or with no trump.
• After a number up to 24 you may say “capot”. A number can’t beat capot: after it nobody says “26” or “30”.
• Only “capot + combination” beats capot, and the combination must be in your own hand. You can’t count on your partner’s: no bluffing — without your own combination the game won’t offer this bid.
• The number after the plus is the combination’s value in the score table: tierce — “capot + 2”, tierce and blot — “capot + 4”, four kings — “capot + 10”. There is no “+1” or “+3”.
• “Capot + …” may be said right after a number and over your partner’s capot.
• “25” may also be said as a number — that is not capot but a promise to take 250. After “25” plain capot is not allowed (also 25); “26” or “capot + …” is. After “30”, “capot + 10” (35) is allowed, “capot + 2” (27) is not.
• You said “capot + 2” but didn’t declare your combination, or it didn’t pass — the bid is not made.

Example: you hold four jacks (200). Bid less and an opponent says “capot” and makes it. You say “25” — now an opponent can only say “capot + 10”, for example with four kings.

Contra and recontra

• Only the opponents say “contra” — against the other pair’s bid. Only during bidding, on their turn, instead of “pass”. Once the tricks start, nobody says contra or recontra.
• After contra only “recontra” or “pass”; no new bids. The bidding pair says recontra — you or your partner. Nothing is higher than recontra: after it the bidding ends at once, nobody else speaks.
• Contra multiplies the bid by 2, recontra by 4; with no trump by 3 and 5. Only the bid is multiplied, not card points or combinations.
• The promise stays the same: “9 ” with contra still needs 90.

Example: “9 ” with contra counts 9 × 2 = 18, with recontra 9 × 4 = 36.

End of the game

• The game is played to 151 or to 301 — chosen before the start. Points from all deals add up.
• The pair that first reaches 151 (or 301) or more wins. A game ends only together with a deal.
• If both pairs cross the line in one deal, the higher score wins, even if the other pair made the bid. On a tie — the pair that won this deal.

Example: it was 142 and 149, “Us” made “9 ” — 18 and 11, now 160 : 160. “Us” win.

Example: it was 140 and 150, “Us” made “8 ” — 16 and 8, now 156 and 158. “Them” win.

In the Blot app

• 2 on 2 has its own rating. The game matches you with opponents as close to your rating as possible.
• Leaving in the middle of a game has a penalty — partners aren’t left alone.
• Lost connection? A bot plays your seat while you are away.
• Tricks, card points, combinations and scoring are in the complete Blot rules.