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Barbu

#6974BGG ↗

1930 · 4-4 players · 180min · weight 2.13 · 157 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
6974
Name
Barbu
Year
1930
Rank
11314
Min players
4
Max players
4
Playing time
180
Min playtime
180
Max playtime
180
Avg weight
2.125
Num weights
8
Bayes avg
5.56976
Average
6.59514
Users rated
157
Num owned
114
Wanting
2
Wishing
25
Num comments
61
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (1)
Trick-taking
Categories (1)
Card Game
Description (741 chars)

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'État, Dragonmaster and Guillotine. See also The Dwarf King, Indulgence, and Phobos Infection: The Lost Journey of X27

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.