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Tarneeb rules

How Kemlet scores Tarneeb: the bid, the points and the target.

The bid

  • Bids run from 7 to 13 tricks, out of 13.
  • The team that wins the bid has to take at least that many tricks.

Scoring

  • When the bid is made, the bidding team scores the tricks it took and the other team scores 0.
  • Extra tricks count: bid 8 and take 10, score 10.
  • When the bid fails, the bidding team loses the bid and the other team scores the tricks it took.
  • Scores can go below zero.
Hand Bidding team Other team
Bid made The tricks it took 0
Bid failed Minus the bid The tricks it took
Took all 13 on a bid under 13 +16 0
Bid 13, made +26 0
Bid 13, failed -16 The tricks it took

Target

  • The target is 31, 41 or 61; the default is 41.
  • The first team to reach 41 or more wins. If more than one gets there on the same hand, the highest wins; a tie plays another hand.

Kemlet keeps score for you in the app, with exactly these rules.

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