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📖 How to Play Klaverjas

🎯 Objective

First team to 1,500 points wins. You and your partner (North) play against two AI opponents across multiple rounds. Each round has 8 tricks worth a total of 162 card points.

🏷️ Bidding

Before each round, players bid to choose the trump suit or pass. The caller's team must score more trick points than the opponents — if they fail, all 162 points go to the other team (the Pit).

⚡ Playing Tricks

You must follow suit. If following trump, you must beat the highest trump in the trick if you can. If void of the led suit, you must trump and must overtrump existing trump — unless your partner is already winning. The trick winner leads next.

🌟 Roem (Bonus Points)

Sequences of 3+ cards in a suit score bonus points: 3-card run = 20, 4-card = 50, full marriage (K+Q of trump) = 20, Stuk = 20. Last trick bonus = 10 points.

🎮 About Klaverjas

Klaverjas (also spelled Klaberjass or Klaverjassen) is the Netherlands' most popular card game — a partnership trick-taking game played with a 32-card deck. It combines strategic bidding, strict obligation rules, and Roem bonus scoring into a deep but fast-paced card game.

This online version plays with full Amsterdams rules: mandatory overtrumping, Pit penalties for failed contracts, Stuk (King+Queen of trump), and sequence bonuses. Seven AI difficulty levels range from Beginner (random play) to Cyborg (optimal card counting with Roem maximization).

Play free in your browser — no account, no download. Challenge friends by sharing your match score directly from the game over screen.

💡 Tips & Strategies

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Bid with Trump J or 9
The Jack (20 pts) and 9 (14 pts) of trump are the two strongest cards. Bid confidently when you hold both — together they're 34 points before you play another card.
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Avoid the Pit
If your team called trump but scores fewer trick points than opponents, all 162 points go to them. Don't bid on weak hands — passing is often the smartest play.
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Hunt for Roem
Sequences of 3+ cards in one suit earn 20–50 bonus points. If you hold Q-K of trump, that's Stuk — 20 free points when you play them in the same trick.

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🃏 How to Play Klaverjas

🎯 Objective

First team to 1,500 points wins! You play with a partner (North) against two AI opponents. Points build over many rounds.

🃏 Deck & Values

32 cards (7–A in each suit). Trump suit: J=20, 9=14, A=11, 10=10, K=4, Q=3, 8=0, 7=0. Non-trump: A=11, 10=10, K=4, Q=3, J=2, 9=0, 8=0, 7=0. Total = 162 pts per round.

🏷️ Bidding

Starting left of dealer, each player may name a trump suit or Pass. If all four pass, the dealer must choose. The caller leads the first trick.

⚡ Playing Tricks (Strict Rules!)

  • Must follow suit — always
  • Following trump? Must beat the highest trump already played if possible
  • Void of led suit? Must trump — and must overtrump existing trump unless your partner is winning
  • Void and no trump? Play anything

Trump order: J > 9 > A > 10 > K > Q > 8 > 7

🌟 Bonuses

  • Stuk: K + Q of trump in hand = +20 pts (declare at first trick)
  • Roem: 3+ consecutive ranks same suit = +20/50/100 pts (declare at first trick)
  • Slam: Win all 8 tricks = +100 pts

For Roem: only the team with the highest single Roem scores theirs. Ties go to declaring team.

⚠️ The Pit

If the declaring team scores equal or fewer card points than opponents, it's a Pit: they score 0, opponents get all 162. (Bonuses still apply normally.)

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