Belote online: the great 2 vs 2 trick-taking game, on Atlas Carta

• 4 players, 2 teams: your partner sits across from you.
• 32 cards by variant: Spanish cards in Moroccan Belote, French-suited cards in French Belote.
• Choose the trump: 5 cards each, one card turned face up in the middle, then everyone says “Take” or “Pass”.
• 8 tricks: follow suit, trump when you can’t, and go higher in trumps when trumps are led.
• Count: 162 card points per hand (last-trick bonus included), plus declarations and Belote-Rebelote.
• Goal: reach 1,000 points in either variant.

The full rules, with example hands, are in our step-by-step Belote rules.

A good game of Belote means four players, a partner across the table and rules everyone follows. On Atlas Carta you get all of that without having to gather a table: you play with other players or with your friends, wherever you are, and the app makes sure the rules are respected on every card.

• Rules enforced, no arguments: follow suit, trump, overtrump, go higher in trumps… only legal cards can be played. Perfect for learning without mistakes.
• Scoring done for you: tricks, last-trick bonus, declarations, Belote-Rebelote, made or failed contract, tie — the result of every hand and the game score are calculated automatically.
• Declarations just like at a real table: Suivis and Carrés declared during the first trick, compared at the second, and Belote-Rebelote called as you play the 11 and 12 of trumps.
• With friends or against other teams: private tables for your group, public tables and a 2 vs 2 tournament every evening.
• Leagues every week: seven weekly leagues: the more games you win, the higher you climb in the week’s ranking.
• Learn by playing: guided games and Belote exercises to understand taking, the playing obligations and declarations before your first real table.
• Four games in one app: Belote, Touti, Ronda and Rami, with a single account.

To improve before your first table, this site has you covered: step-by-step rules, 15 strategy tips, a quiz to test your reflexes and a tour of Belote variants around the world.

Belote joins Touti, Ronda and Rummy in the same app, with the same comfortable play as the other three games.

1. The deal: each player gets 5 cards (a packet of 3, then a packet of 2), then one card is turned face up in the middle.
2. Take or pass: in the first round, taking means accepting the suit of the face-up card as trumps. If everyone passes, a second round lets a player take by naming another suit.
3. Completing the deal: the taker picks up the face-up card plus 2 more cards; the other three get 3 each. Everyone now holds 8 cards.
4. 8 tricks and declarations: the player to the dealer’s right leads; during the first trick, everyone may declare their sequences (Suivis) and fours (Carrés).
5. Scoring: add up the cards won, the last-trick bonus, the declarations and Belote-Rebelote. The taking team must score more than the other team.

Everything depends on whether a card is a trump or not. In trumps, the 10 and the 6 become the strongest cards; in the other suits, the Ace rules.

Trump order: 10 > 6 > 1 > 7 > 12 > 11 > 5 > 4. Non-trump order: 1 > 7 > 12 > 11 > 10 > 6 > 5 > 4. The obligations (follow suit, trump, overtrump, go higher) are detailed in the complete rules.

• 162 trick points per hand: 152 in the cards + 10 for the last trick (“dix de der”).
• Capot: a team that wins all 8 tricks counts 252 instead of 162.
• Declarations: a Suivi of 3 cards (e.g. 5-6-7 of cups) = 20, 4 cards = 50, 5 or more = 100; four 10s = 200, four 6s = 150, four 1s, 7s, 11s or 12s = 100.
• Belote-Rebelote: the 11 and 12 of trumps in the same hand = 20 points, kept even if the team fails its contract.
• Contract: the taking team must score more than the other team. Otherwise it is “inside”: the defenders score 162 plus the declarations.

For a specific case, use our Belote score calculator: it applies exactly the app’s scoring, ties and reserve included.

During the first trick, as you play your first card, you can declare a Suivi (at least 3 consecutive cards of the same suit, e.g. 10-11-12 of coins) or a Carré (four cards of the same rank, e.g. the four 10s). At the start of the second trick, the best declaration of each team is compared: only the winning team scores, but it scores all of its declarations.

Belote-Rebelote is called separately: “Belote” when you play the first of the two cards (11 or 12 of trumps), “Rebelote” when you play the second. Everything is explained, including ties, in our guide to Belote declarations.

1. Don’t take with a single big trump. With the 10 or the 6 of trumps plus two other trumps, taking becomes reasonable.
2. Count the trumps. There are 8 per hand: once the 10 and the 6 are gone, your middle trumps become masters.
3. Think about the last trick. It is worth 10 extra points: keeping a trump for the end can decide the contract.
4. Never forget to declare. A declaration not made during the first trick is lost.
5. Let your partner win when they are master. If you can’t follow suit, you are then not forced to trump: throw away a small card. Careful: when trumps are led, you must always go higher.