Tute: the Spanish trick-taking card game explained
Tute is Spain's most widespread trick-taking game: aces and threes carry the points, king-and-horse pairs are sung for 20 or 40, and four kings win on the spot.
Tute is the trick-taking game Spain plays most: a 40-card Spanish deck, a trump suit, and a scoring system where aces (11 points) and threes (10) carry nearly all the value. Its signature move is the cante: declaring the king and horse of one suit after winning a trick earns 20 points, or 40 in trumps — the origin of the everyday Spanish expression cantar las cuarenta, to give someone a piece of your mind. Collecting all four kings or all four horses is a «tute» and wins the game instantly; the name comes from the Italian tutti («all»), a reminder that the game arrived from Italy in the 19th century before Spain made it its own.
Our complete guide — history, full rules for the two- and four-player forms, the cantes and the main variants — is available in Spanish: Reglas del tute. To play it you need a traditional 40-card Spanish deck from our playing cards collection.
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