How do you play the French-Canadian card game Charlemagne?

Answer 1

I use to play with my french Canadian inlaws, you play with the seven thru the ace and discard the 2 thru the 6. Play with a partner and bid in suits. The trump suit has the highest card as the nine followed by the jack of suit then the opposite jack of suit the ace, king, queen, ten, eight and seven. The off trump suits follow the traditional ace high down. You bid clockwise until no one wants to bid higher than the last bidder. The highest bidders suit becomes the trump suit. Bidder leads off with the first card. You can trump in whenever you are out of the suit that is led or you can discard another suit card. The bidder gets 10 points for every trick he and his partner takes up to their bid and a point for any extra tricks. If the miss making their bid they get set the total amount of their bid times 10. Example, if you bid 6 hearts and only take 5 tricks you get set 60 points. You play to a set point amount like 500 points.