Barbu (1930)

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Publisher	(Public Domain) Dujardin
Year Published	1930
# of Players	4
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 4 players (3 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	180 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (2 voters) [poll]
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Category	Card Game
Mechanic	Trick-taking
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Family	Traditional Card Games
Primary Name	Barbu
Alternate Names	Le Barbu Barbuda Jeu de Barbu Tafferan
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Barbu (or Barbuda) is a four-player trick-taking card game of French origin. Each of the four players in turn becomes declarer. The declarer picks one of seven contracts for each hand. No contract is repeated until all seven have been played. Many variants of Barbu are played which include different contracts and point schedules, but seven common contracts are:

Barbu (don't take king of hearts)
Hearts (don't take hearts)
Last Two (don't take last two tricks)
Nullo (don't take tricks)
Queens (don't take queens)
Trumps (take tricks)
Fan Tan (be first out of cards)

See also Coup d'etat, Dragonmaster and Guillotine.

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Jeu de Barbu

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0	Strategy Barbuda (variant) Strategy: Calling hands	2006-09-25	timbur	0
3	Reviews A Review of Barbuda (Barbu)	2006-09-03	meta87	5
1	General Similarities	2003-07-17	Urhixidur	1

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Barbu Score Sheet

Here is my version of the score sheet (from rules out of Games Magazine). Prints on a single page and allows the players to cross out the games they've played. Not sure it is any better than the others, but here it is.

cmhladik

2009-08-29

barbu.xls

This excel spreadsheet calculates scores/doubling for you (credit to Stacey Olstad)

olstad

2004-06-13

Barbu 11.03.xls

One-Page Scoresheet (in Excel format, for manual use)

andyc32

2003-11-26

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Board Game Rank:	3139
Num Ratings:	52
Average Rating:	7.05
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Wikipedia entry	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbu_%28game%29	2009-11-22
rules, online game, fun site	http://www.barbu.co.uk	2004-03-30
Rules for Barbu	http://www.pagat.com/reverse/barbu.html	2003-08-01