How to play King: rules and scoring

4 players
52-card deck
20 deals

Goal: Have the highest score after 20 deals.

Setup

Everyone gets 13 cards.

How to play

Each deal, the player whose turn it is picks the game: trump or a penalty.
In a trump game the chooser names the trump suit, and every trick scores.
Penalties: no tricks, no hearts, no kings or jacks, no queens, king of hearts, and last two tricks.
Each player picks 2 trump and 3 penalty games; each penalty is played at most twice.
You must follow suit.

Scoring

Trump · each trick	+50
No tricks · each trick	−50
No hearts · each heart	−30
No kings/jacks · each one	−60
No queens · each queen	−100
King of hearts	−320
Last two · each trick	−180

Winning

After 20 deals, the highest total wins.

Let Yazboz Guru keep the King score

No pen and paper: pick the game, set your table’s rules and enter what happened at the end of each round. The app does the math by the rules.

A Turkish 20-deal card game, much like Barbu. Each player picks 2 trump and 3 penalty games; each penalty is played at most twice. Every trump trick is +50; penalties: trick −50, heart −30, king/jack −60, queen −100, king of hearts −320, each of the last two tricks −180.

King score sheet in Yazboz Guru — Score sheet

Entering a King round in Yazboz Guru — Entering a round

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