Card Game - Joffre

10+ years | 4+ players | 60 mins.

Joffre (also called Kaiser), is a card game played with a deck of 32 cards, with four players divided into two teams of two partners (North-South and East-West).

If Joffre is often compared to bridge, due to its two-phase process (auction and card play), it nevertheless remains that it is easier to learn to play Joffre than bridge, notably thanks to the simplification, or even absence, of conventions at the auction phase.

Just like bridge, it takes place in two phases:

1. auctions that determine the contract to be played by the team that wins the auction;
2. the card game during which the declaring team attempts to achieve at least the number of points announced by the contract.

If the names Joffre and Kaiser recall the First World War, the origins of the game still remain unknown. It seems that the game was introduced to Quebec during the last century.