Kort, At-kort and Bavan

A 7:0 shutout is the biggest moment at the table. It gives 5 or 7 wins at once, and the team can take a risk and go for Bavan: taking all 13 tricks. Here's how it works, how the vote goes and when the risk pays off.

Kort#

Kort: the team that chose the trump wins the round 7:0, and the opponents don't take a single trick. A Kort is worth 5 match wins instead of one.

• In a match to 7 wins, a Kort gives 5 of the 7; in a ranked match to 3, it wins the match at once.
• After a Kort, the trump passes to the partner of the player who held it.
• In a ranked game, a Kort means ±5 cups for each player.

At-kort#

At-kort: 7:0 for the team that didn't choose the trump. Shutting out the opponents against their own trump is much harder, so an At-kort is worth 7 wins, which wins the match at once if there are no spectators in the room. In a ranked game it's ±7 cups.

Bavan#

When the round score reaches 7:0, the round doesn't end right away. The team that made the Kort or At-kort can go for Bavan: a commitment to take all 13 tricks.

Bavan is extremely rare: the boldest and most honored play in the game. Few dare, even fewer see it through.
— from the KORT rules

How the vote works#

1. At 7:0, the cards of both players on the winning team are revealed to everyone: the opponents, the partner and the spectators. The opponents' cards stay hidden.
2. The team sees the question “You scored KORT! Go for Bavan?” (after an At-kort, “AT-KORT”) and two buttons: Bavan! and Stop. Meanwhile, the opponents see “Opponents deciding: Bavan or stop”.
3. There are 30 seconds to decide. Only the two players of the team that made the 7:0 vote. You can't change your vote: once you've voted, you see “Waiting for partner...”.

ChrisPartner

RyanOpponent

MikeOpponent

AlexYou

♥Trump♥

THEY0WE0

KORT+5 wins

BAVAN!Playing to 13:0

KORTKort counts

You scored KORT! Go for Bavan?

BAVAN!Stop

Partner: “Bavan!”

1. Your team takes trick after trick, and the opponents have none.
2. 5:0…
3. 6:0…
4. 7:0: that's a Kort! But the round doesn't end here: first the team decides whether to go for Bavan.
5. Both players on the team get the question “You scored KORT! Go for Bavan?” They have 30 seconds to answer.
6. Your partner tapped “Bavan!”
7. You tapped “Stop”. One refusal is enough.
8. No Bavan: the Kort counts, +5 wins.

ChrisPartner

RyanOpponent

MikeOpponent

AlexYou

♥Trump♥

THEY0WE0

KORT+5 wins

BAVAN!Playing to 13:0

KORTKort counts

You scored KORT! Go for Bavan?

BAVAN!Stop

Partner: “Bavan!”

1. 7:0: the team gets the Bavan question.
2. Your partner tapped “Bavan!”, and you don't tap anything.
3. 30 seconds pass…
4. Silence counts as agreement: the team goes for Bavan and plays to 13:0.

How Bavan is played#

• If Bavan is accepted, the table shows “BAVAN! Playing to 13:0”. The revealed cards stay visible for at least 15 seconds from the start of the vote, even if both agreed right away, and are then hidden again.
• The player who took the 7th trick leads first.
• The round goes on until 13:0 or until the opponents take their first trick.
• Sar and Trop work as usual, but a team going for Bavan may also declare Trop, even though it already has 7 tricks or more (normally, with 5 tricks or more, only Sar is allowed).

Bavan results#

A successful Bavan or At-bavan wins the match at once if there are no spectators in the room: with spectators, players swap seats after every 2 wins. Note: Bavan replaces the Kort, it isn't added to it. And if it fails, the team also loses the Kort it already made.

Is Bavan worth the risk?#

A Kort already guarantees 5 or 7 wins. Bavan gives more, but if it fails you lose everything, and the opponents get 5 wins.

In a room, match to 7#

• Stopped at the Kort: +5, the match isn't necessarily won yet.
• Bavan succeeded: +10, the match is won.
• Bavan failed: +5 to the opponents. If they already had 2 wins or more, they win the match.

After an At-kort, there's no point in going for Bavan in a room for the wins: the At-kort already gives 7, which wins the match. Here Bavan is only for glory.

In a ranked game, match to 3#

Here a Kort already ends the match, and Bavan only changes the cups. An example at the start of a match, at 0:0:

Cups for each player on the team: for the round plus a +5 bonus for a clean sweep (+2 for the match and another +3). If Bavan fails, the opponents win the match 5:0, and you lose 5 cups.

Bots and Bavan#

• If your partner is a bot, it always votes “yes” after 2 seconds. So the fate of the Bavan is in your hands: tap “Stop” if you don't want to take the risk. Silence counts as agreement.
• If two bots are deciding on Bavan, they go for it only when the win is guaranteed whatever cards the opponents hold.
• Online, a bot votes for a player who has left, by the same rules.

Details#

1. A Kort or At-kort counts only after the Bavan decision. At 7:0 there is always a vote first.
2. Only the team that made the 7:0 shows its cards. The opponents see both of your hands and know your weak spots in advance.
3. After a successful Trop to the end, the score is 7:0, which is a Kort, so Bavan is offered as well. But if you go for it, your team can't lead a trump until it leads a different suit: a completed Trop bars trump leads.
4. How often your Bavan succeeds is shown in “My games” (since version 1.2.6): there's a line “Bavan called N times, made M”.