How To Play French Tarot (5 player) for Beginners

If you want to learn how to play #frenchtarot - this video will get you started. I explain how the 5-player variant of this great game works, a classic played with a full 78-card #tarotdeck mainly in French-speaking areas of Europe and Canada. #tarotfrançais #tarotcards #tarotcardgames #playingcards #tricktakinggames #

[@theamazinghippopotomonstro9942]

This seems like a really fun game. I like tarot card games since there's more cards to play with

[@learntarotcardgames54]

Yes - it's a fun one! Plus there are a lot of players online, so it's easy to get a game whenever.

[@plrc4593]

@@learntarotcardgames54 What site do you propose for tarot for 4 players?

[@plrc4593]

Yea, I like to have a lot of cards since I've learnt bridge and in this game you have 18 cards :3

[@ab-zg8pt]

Loved the video! By the way, your voice is so pleasing to listen to!

[@learntarotcardgames54]

Aw shucks :) I'm flattered. I think this is the only place to hear Tarot games discussed with an Australian accent...

[@Giangio781]

This is a very helpful video, well done! French Tarot is really interesting and fascinating tough a little intimidating at first...I'll give it a try and hope to have some fun. Thanks!

[@learntarotcardgames54]

Cheers, it's a fun game, I'm sure you'll work it out :)

[@mikesherwood3366]

Great video, my dude. I was having trouble really wrapping my head around this game, but you’ve cleared up more than just a bit of my confusion. Maybe now I can actually get better lol

[@learntarotcardgames54]

Thanks! Get the Tarot app and practice against the computer, then come try a game against other humans on BGA :)

[@domukaz]

Great channel! I've had a bit of a card-game fever recently, and all these old tarot games sound like a lot of fun.

[@plrc4593]

They are. After bridge and Australian 500 best card games.

[@tonyhayden5357]

Thanks man this really helps. Did my first game on BGA today and was lost now I'm ready for more.

[@learntarotcardgames54]

Great to hear I could help! I just now uploaded another one for Grosstarock / Danish Tarok, which is also available on BGA. Might see you round sometime!

[@tonyhayden5357]

Cool.. I've been trying to learn/play Grosstarock seems like another good one but not as many players online as some of the others.

[@learntarotcardgames54]

@@tonyhayden5357 Yeah, the player pool is currently pretty small. Hopefully we can build that up! Shoot me an email and I can invite you to the Discord if you want to find players and schedule some games.

[@plrc4593]

I must admit this kind of Tarot/tarok is especially fun and adictive. At first I was disappointed you play alone (as the "attacker"), but the game is constructed in such a way that it's not a problem. It's similar in mechanics to bridge but completly different in strategy what is nice.

[@hehasverylowbloodsugar362]

This was a great video! Very clear and easy to understand! I am wondering what happens if more than one player bids to be the taker, how is it determined?

[@aaronrichard5647]

Hi there! Great question - basically, if someone before you has already bid "Guard", you need to bid something higher (either "Guard Without" or "Guard Against"). You can't bid the same as what someone else already has. There's only one round of bidding, so once you've been outbid, you can't put in another. For that reason, some players will maybe take a bit more of a risk and bid something higher to stop anyone else getting to be taker.

[@afrank525]

So helpful, thank you!

[@learntarotcardgames54]

Glad to help!

[@aaronfallon4728]

Love your videos! They are taking me on a similar journey from board game geek to tarot player! Any advice on where to get a deck to play IRL?

[@augustinesalinas3659]

It’s like pitch with an extra suit with different points

[@learntarotcardgames54]

I can see the similarities. Plays quite differently in terms of strategy, but for an American audience Pitch is probably the only point-trick game they're familiar with.

[@plrc4593]

6:59 - this is a very interesting and distinctive trait of the game, compared to for instance bridge. In bridge when you have weak hand you need to obtain lower result. When you have strong hand you need to obtain higher result. In French tarot it's reversed what causes you passes a lot more often than in bridge.

[@trondsi]

I like the Danish name for the 1, 21, and Fool: the Three Matadors (from Matto=the Fool). :)

[@learntarotcardgames54]

I could be wrong, but I don't think they're called "Matadors" because of il matto... "Matador" is "the killer". This name is used in a lot of card games (including non-Tarot games like Skat if you're talking about it in English) for the highest trumps.

[@trondsi]

@@learntarotcardgames54 Not sure where I got that from actually, maybe I just extrapolated from Pagat=Bagatto. I'll let you know if I find a source.

[@learntarotcardgames54]

@@trondsi I'd be interested if you do :) I've not thought about that before - I think because I knew Matador in other card games before I saw it in Danish Tarok. But you could be right - it also might be connected to Matto.

[@trondsi]

@@learntarotcardgames54 It may have been in one of the sources on Danish tarok. I can read Danish, and they have collected quite a bit of history on their tarok website.

[@elieltonoliveira7862]

Very didactical.

[@samueldecelles6646]

I gonna build a Simpsons version based on the episode titled The Serfsons

[@redreg777]

Hey mate, thanks for the video. I'm having trouble finding some place online to buy this deck of cards. I'm from Aus, I assume you are too. Please let me know if you can help. Looking to use the deck to also play Le Plateau

[@learntarotcardgames54]

Hi Reggie, yep - I'm in Melbourne. I picked up my French Tarot deck on eBay, from a seller in Brisbane. Was about $20 from memory. You could also find it from Amazon, although a little more for international postage. But at any rate, you can usually find it online - search for "Jeu de Tarot", makers include Fournier and France Cartes. Hope that helps!

[@floriandegranier8863]

Hello Aaron, There is a little mistake : scores for handfuls are actually 20, 30 and 40 points instead of 20, 40 and 60 🙂

[@arkady714]

Excellent video! One question: When you play the "excuse," you do keep that card, right? The person who takes the trick wins all of the cards except that one, yeah?

[@learntarotcardgames54]

Great question! The person who takes the trick gives you the Excuse back, in exchange for any 1/2 point card. So it evens out.

[@arkady714]

@@learntarotcardgames54 Cheers for the quick response. Is this exchange done at the end of the trick or the end of the entire hand?

[@learntarotcardgames54]

@@arkady714 Usually at the end of that trick in my experience. You swap them a pip card or one of the trumps besides the 1 or 21.

[@learntarotcardgames54]

@@arkady714 There's an exception to that though - you lose the Excuse by playing it to the last trick (usually). BUT there is also one way to *win* a trick with the Excuse (technically) - if you are shooting for Slam but also hold the Excuse, and you've won every trick so far up to the second last one, you can lead the Excuse to the final trick and win - but only in that specific circumstance.

[@arkady714]

@@learntarotcardgames54 Ok, thanks. Btw, when you say that "every other card in the deck is worth .5," this includes all trump cards except the 1 and 21, correct? (Pardon all the questions. I'm going to be playing this game with some French friends in another week or so and it'll be my first time in years.)

[@plrc4593]

I have played this game for quite a long and I'm still a noob depite I play quite well in bridge. This is completly different thinking than in bridge.

[@Beanmachine91]

theres thematic solitaire games to play with a rider waite smith deck like the fool's journey and queens of fate

[@plrc4593]

1:08 - legend says there is somewhere not only the 4th player, but even the 5th player.

[@plrc4593]

Once I despised card games where you need to gather points instead of plain tricks. I still regard bridge as a superior card game but I liked point-trick taking games (is this how we call them?) such as tarot/tarok and schafkopf very much.

[@Manoahmanolo]

Seems like a lot of fun, but I think the bidding and calculating the scores is a little hard to understand. Is there any version of tarot games that is just simply playing a round and adding up the scores without bidding and complicated calculations?

[@learntarotcardgames54]

Yes, there are tarot games where card points are counted singularly, and also ones without bidding. The bidding isn't too bad once you've played enough hands to know what a strong-ish hand looks like, but then I'm comparing with games like Königrufen that have a much crazier list of bids available :) Have a look through the rest of my channel for the variations that exist around Europe.

[@plrc4593]

18:19 - you could invoke some demons with that deck.

[@rvprksh]

Is it more fun than spades? This game has more cards and rules.

[@learntarotcardgames54]

I would say so. It's definitely many, many times more complex than Spades. Depends what kind of game you like.

[@plrc4593]

The game is much more fun than spades. Rules are simple. Only counting the score is somewhat tricky.

[@DidHiPortugal]

Yo! How can i reach you? I play for like 16years i just found you i AM 23 years! Its a family game!! How can i play online?? Can i play on my mobile? I speak portuguese btw

[@learntarotcardgames54]

Hi mate - no problem, can email me on LearnTarotCardGames AT gmail.com to contact. Mostly I play online at a website called www.BoardGameArena.com which is what I used for this video. But also there is a good phone app made by EryodSoft. Also, if you want to make contact with other players, if you email me I can invite you to our Card Games Discord group.

[@DidHiPortugal]

My man i only saw the response lmao

[@DidHiPortugal]

Send me your email please

[@shayznati9424]

I dont understand the risk of taking a guard compared to a small bid. its worth twice as much, whats the catch?

[@Alexorsumidk]

Do the Trumphs (Except the "Beuts") also count as 0.5 points?

[@learntarotcardgames54]

Yes - that's correct. All of the trumps other than the bouts are 0.5, same as the pip cards in the suits.

[@Alexorsumidk]

@@learntarotcardgames54 Thank you

[@Erquee]

What kind of deck am ı need for playing french tarot?

[@learntarotcardgames54]

Hi there. Normally you play with the Tarot Nouveau. Can find online if you search "Tarot à Jouer". But can theoretically play with any 78-card deck.

[@Erquee]

@@learntarotcardgames54 Thx

[@Erquee]

@@learntarotcardgames54 Me and my friends started to play and we love it thank you for showing this game to us (turkish university students) in our county anybody doesn't know tarot was an epic card game which has to many variants.

[@learntarotcardgames54]

@@Erquee I'm glad you enjoy it! Hopefully you can teach a few more players :)

[@frankm.2850]

Is it possible to play with two people?

[@DidHiPortugal]

18min after

[@plrc4593]

That cards going all from the right are annoying.