Blot 1 on 1

Deck and deal

• The deck has 24 cards: 9, 10, jack, queen, king and ace of each suit. No sevens or eights.
• The dealer gives each player 3 cards and 3 more — 6 each. The next card is turned face up on the table.
• Players deal in turn. The dealer’s opponent leads to the first trick, whoever chose trump.

Choosing trump

• First round: first the dealer’s opponent, then the dealer decide — take trump (the suit of the open card) or say “pass”.
• Whoever takes trump takes the open card and 2 more from the deck, the other player takes 3 from the deck: 9 cards each.
• If a jack is open and the dealer’s opponent says “pass”, the dealer must take it: the jack’s suit is trump, and the jack goes to the dealer.
• Second round (both said “pass”): you may choose another suit or no trump. Whoever chooses trump decides whether to take the open card: taken — they draw 2 from the deck, not taken — 3. The other player can’t take an open card that was left, and it is not played.
• If nobody chose trump in two rounds, the dealer must name a suit other than the open card’s, or no trump. They may take the open card.

Example: the 10 is open, both said “pass” twice, you are the dealer and choose . You may take the 10 and draw 2 from the deck; if you don’t take it — 3.

Play, combinations and contra

• Following suit, trumping and overtrumping work as in Bazar Blot.
• Tierce, fifty, hundred, carré and blot — as in Bazar Blot. They are declared on the first trick, each player in turn; the higher combination counts, the lower doesn’t. They are shown on the second trick.
• There is no contra or recontra in 1 on 1.

Scoring

• Whoever chose trump must take more points than the opponent — cards and combinations together. A tie counts as made.
• Six cards of the deck are not played. Players compare what they took in tricks, without those cards. If the player who chose trump made it, the points of those cards are added to them, then rounded.
• Not made — the opponent gets 16 and both players’ combinations, the player who chose trump gets 0.
• Capot — all 9 tricks: 21 and your own combinations.
• No trump counts like a plain suit and is not doubled; the ace is worth 19.

Example: hearts are yours, you have 84, the opponent 58, the deck holds 20: you get 104 → 10, the opponent 58 → 6.

Example: hearts are yours; you have 70 + tierce 20 = 90, the opponent 92 — not made: the opponent gets 16 + 2 = 18, you 0.

End of the game

Play to 51, 101 or 151 — chosen before the start. Points of the deals add up.

In the Blot app

1 on 1 has its own rating. There are random players, tournaments, a table with a friend and training with a strong bot.