Baloot score calculator

How abnat become points

Abnat are the card points a team captures. In Hokum the cards add up to 152 and the last trick adds 10, so a round holds 162. In Sun the cards add up to 120 — 130 with the last trick.

In Hokum a team’s abnat are divided by 10; in Sun they are doubled, then divided by 10 — the 10 for the last trick included, in both contracts. So a Hokum round is worth 16 points (162 → 16) and a Sun round 26 (130 × 2 ÷ 10).

Both teams are rounded together so the round total never drifts: each team keeps the whole part of its points, and the leftover point goes to the larger fraction — to the bidding team when the fractions are equal. A Hokum example: the bidders have 96 abnat including the last trick and the defenders 66, i.e. 9.6 and 6.6. The fractions tie, so the bidders score 10 and the defenders 6.

Project values

Projects score straight in match points, and doubling never multiplies them. The familiar names 20, 50, 100 and 400 are their abnat values:

• Sira — three cards in sequence in one suit: 2 in Hokum, 4 in Sun.
• Fifty — four in sequence: 5 in Hokum, 10 in Sun.
• Hundred — five or more in sequence, or four Tens, Jacks, Queens or Kings (four Aces too in Hokum): 10 in Hokum, 20 in Sun.
• Four Hundred — four Aces in Sun: 40.
• Baloot — the King and Queen of trump in Hokum: 2.

When both teams declare, the team holding the single highest project scores all of its projects and the other scores none; if the best projects tie, the bidders’ projects count. The Baloot always scores for whoever holds it.

Kaboot

If one team takes all eight tricks it is a kaboot: 90 abnat are added to its total before conversion. In Hokum (162 + 90) ÷ 10 = 25.2, so 25 points; in Sun (130 + 90) × 2 ÷ 10 = 44 points. The kaboot counts for whichever team makes it — the defenders included.

Doubling

The doubling ladder: double ×2, then three ×3, then four ×4. It multiplies both teams’ trick points — the last trick and the kaboot with them — and the projects and the Baloot are then added at face value.

The Gahwa tops the ladder: it multiplies nothing — whoever wins the round wins the whole match: the bidders if they make the contract, the defenders if it is set.

The bidding-team rule: when is a contract set?

The bidding team must collect at least half the abnat: 81 of 162 in Hokum and 65 of 130 in Sun, counting the 10 for the last trick if it took it. Exactly half is enough, and neither projects nor doubling count toward it.

If the bidders fall short, the contract is set: the defenders take every point of the round — both teams’ trick points and the counted projects — and the bidders keep only their Baloot, if they hold it.