Tute rules

How to play Tute

Tute is a card game that can be played with 2 players or in couples, but there are also a 3 and 4 player modes. It’s from Italy (tutti) and it can be played with the Spanish deck. It’s very popular in Spain, America and part of Europe.

Just like the Briscola game, it can be played in a predefined number of rounds. In each round the player or couple that ends up with most points will be the winner. It will win the match the player or couple that reaches the target number of points.

In Casual Arena it’s possible to play with 2 players (Havanian Tute), with couples (Classic Tute) and Tute Cabrón (3 or 4 players). You can choose between matches of 1, 2 or 3 rounds, and allow or not to call Tute.

Value of the Tute cards

It’s played with a 40-card deck and each card has the following value:

• Ace: 11 points
• Three: 10 points
• King: 4 points
• Knight: 3 points
• Knave: 2 points
• Seven, Six, Five, Four and Two: 0 points

How does a match start

The player that starts the first hand is chosen randomly. The next hands and rounds are started by the player that won the hand before.

In the more than 2 players modes every card is distributed. In the Havanian Tute (2 players), only 16 cards are distributed and the rest remains on the deck. On this mode in each new hand each player gets a new card from the deck until there are no more cards left.

The initial card distribution is done in the following way:

• 2 players: 8 cards per player and 24 in the deck.
• 3 players: 12 cards per player (there are no Twos).
• 4 playres: 10 cards per player (complete 40-card deck).

The last card of the deck is used to declare the trump suit and is called trump.

Game development

Each round is divided in several hands or tricks. In each hand the player that starts defines the suit that will go on hand. The following players must discard a card following several rules in order of priority:

• Mount or assist: A card of the same suit must be played (assist) and of a higher value (mount). If there’s a trump card in play, you can only assist (play with a card of the same suit of any value).
• Assist: If it’s not possible, you must discard a card of the same suit and of a lower value.
• Miss: If you don’t have cards of the initial trick card suit, you must play a trump card superior to any trump card on the trick.
• Free: If you can’t assist nor miss, if you don’t have any cards of the starting suit and no winning trump cards, you can play freely.

Playing a trump card on the beginning is called “dragging”, since you force your oponnets to play trump cards as well.

In the Havanian Tute (2 players) in the other hand, you can play freely while there are cards on the deck to distribute. After that it will follow the same rules.

The player that played the trump card of a higher value, wins the hand and gets the points corresponding to all the cards played on that trick. If no trump card was played, wins the card of the highest value of the initial suit.

Calls

By starting a new hand, the player who won the hand/trick has the right to do a call. His companion can also do it at that moment.

You can do a call when you have a king and a knight of the same suit. If you have the 4 knights or the 4 kings you can call Tute. Calls follow these rules:

• A call of the trump suit gives 40 points and is called “Calling the 40”.
• A call of another suit gives 20 points and is called “Calling 20”.
• Calling Tute offers the the round that is currently being played.
• To call Tute, this option must be activated on Casual Arena.
• In each trick it’s only possible to do one call. The following calls must be done on the following hands.
• When it’s possible to call 20 and 40, it’s mandatory to call the 40 first.
• If you do a call, you cannot call a Tute any longer.
• It’s not possible to do a call if the trick wasn’t won by you or your partner.
• In the Classic Tute (couples) and Cabrón (3-4 players), if you don’t call when it’s possible, you lose the right to call it later.
• In the Havanian Tute (2 players) it’s possible to do calls while there are cards on the deck to distribute and the right to call is not lost during this period. After this it’s no longer possible.

Trump change

Just like Briscola, in the 2 players mode it’s possible to change the trump card if you have own the previous trick and if:

• The Trump has value (ace, three, king, knight or knave) and you have the 7 of the trump suit.
• The Trump has no value and you have the 2 of the trump suit.

Last trick

The person that wins the last trick gets 10 additional points.

Couples matches

In this mode each couple sums the points of its players to decide which couple wins each round.

Draws

A draw can be achieved by having all players accepting a draw proposal. In case of a points draw, the person that is the hand wins. If the draw is not between the hand and other players, then the person closest to the hand (to the right) is the winner.

Tute rooms

You will be able to play Tute on 5 different rooms in Casual Arena: Passport, Tourist, Priority, Business and Luxury. Every room is accessible by all players after a certain level requirement is met.

Prizes, chips and points

The amount of points you get on each room depends of the amount of players on the match, as you can see on the following table:

2 players and couples matches:

3 players matches:

4 players matches: