Barbu
A 28-hand compendium card game with 7 distinct negative and positive contracts per dealer.
Contracts and Dealer Choice
Four players, 52 cards (13 each). The game consists of 28 hands: each player deals 7 times and chooses one of the 7 contracts that they haven't yet played.
- No Tricks: −2 pts per trick taken (total −26).
- No Hearts: −2 pts per heart; Ace is −6 (total −30).
- No Queens: −6 pts per queen (total −24).
- Barbu: King of Hearts is −20 pts.
- No Last Two: Second-to-last trick is −10, last trick is −20 (total −30).
- Trumps: Positive contract; each trick scores +5 points (+65 total).
- Domino: Fan-tan layout starting from 7s; first to shed all cards scores +45, second +20, third +5, fourth −5.
Zero-Sum Balance
All negative and positive contracts across the 28 hands sum to exactly zero. The player with the highest overall score at the end of the session wins.