Today,I'd like to talk about the belote contrée(here is how it's called in the south of france and in north africa),also called coinche in the north of france.It's a popular 32-card trick-taking game,a very technical game,it's mainly a 4 players game, 2 players eventually for the simple belote.Also in opposite to the simple belote, the contrée is dealt out while having already all ur cards in hand. And then decide how much u think u can do, with the precisious help of ur partner.

I've a nice picture of me and my partner making a fanny to the adversary:



what is a fanny?Ok,look at the score :1010 for us and 0 for them maybe it will be more evident,is it? Yeah of course a fanny is winning and leaving the opponent at 0.
(I didn't say it before to win u must be the first to reach the score u will have decided at the begining of the game it's generally 1001 it can be 501 or 1501, 2001 etc...).

This is the table with which u choose ur demand and in wich field, normal, without atouts (SA), all atouts (TA), depending on ur cards and ur partner cards. The way u annonciate and the way ur part annonciate, makes each understand what's in the other one hand.


My uncle learnt me that game, I started playing at the age of 15, and I could play it all day and night long I wouldn't mind.I'm a belote and a contrée addicted!