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500 card game score sheet
The 500 card game is scored one bid at a time. The side that wins the auction scores its bid from the chart if it takes the tricks it promised, or loses that much if it falls short. The other side scores 10 for every trick it takes. Reach 500 by making a bid to win, and keep it all on the score sheet below.
- 4 players, 2 partnerships
- 43 cards, joker included
- Make a bid to reach 500
- Minus 500 loses
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This is the real app screen, live, on Teams. Open the Scorepad to see every hand: each side’s goes under one partner, and a bid that fails is a minus.
Five Hundred
A partnership trick-taking game in the euchre family, played with a 43-card deck and a joker, where the side that wins the auction must take the tricks it bid; it is a different game from the rummy game Rummy 500.
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How to play Five Hundred, in brief
Two teams bid for trump (the suit that beats the others) in Five Hundred, then must take the tricks they promised. Reach 500 on a bid you make to win.
- DealFrom 43 cards (a joker, red 4s to aces, black 5s to aces), deal 10 each and a face-down kitty of 3.
- Bid for trumpTop the last bid with 6 or more tricks in a suit or no trumps, or drop out. The winner takes the kitty and discards 3.
- Play 10 tricksA trick is one card from each player; follow the suit led if you can. The highest trump wins, or else the top card of that suit. The joker is top trump, then the jack of trump and the other jack of its color.
- ScoreBidders gain or lose their bid’s value; others score their tricks.
The bidders score the chart. The others score their tricks.
The side that won the bidding, the contractors, scores only from the chart, and only if it took at least the tricks it bid in the suit it named, or in no trumps. Extra tricks earn the contractors nothing.
The bid chart
| Bid | Points |
|---|---|
| 6 tricks♠ 40 · ♣ 60 · ♦ 80 · ♥ 100 · no trumps 120 | 40 to 120 |
| 7 tricks♠ 140 · ♣ 160 · ♦ 180 · ♥ 200 · no trumps 220 | 140 to 220 |
| 8 tricks♠ 240 · ♣ 260 · ♦ 280 · ♥ 300 · no trumps 320 | 240 to 320 |
| 9 tricks♠ 340 · ♣ 360 · ♦ 380 · ♥ 400 · no trumps 420 | 340 to 420 |
| 10 tricks♠ 440 · ♣ 460 · ♦ 480 · ♥ 500 · no trumps 520 | 440 to 520 |
| MisèreTake no tricks at all | 250 |
| Open misère | 500 |
| Each trick the opponents takeMade or not; nothing against a misère | 10 |
- Bid made: score the chartThe contractors score the bid’s value and nothing for extra tricks. The one exception: all 10 tricks on a bid worth less than 250 scores 250.
- Bid missed: lose the chartFall short by even one trick and the contractors lose the bid’s value. Totals can go below zero.
- The opponents count tricks10 for each trick they took, whether the bid was made or not. Against a misère they score nothing.
- Win by making a bidA side wins by reaching 500 on a hand where it made its bid. Points taken as the opponents cannot win the game, and a side that falls to minus 500 loses.
Hand 7: You make 7 spades, and the game.
You and Priya are Team A, Dev and Jonas Team B. Going into hand 7 it is 390 to 490. You win the auction with 7♠, worth 140, and take 8 tricks; Dev and Jonas take the other 2. This is hand 7 on the Scorepad above.
| Team | What the hand is worth | Hand |
|---|---|---|
| You and Priya | Bid 7♠, took 8 tricksThe bid made: 140 from the chart. The eighth trick adds nothing | 140 |
| Dev and Jonas | Took 2 tricks10 a trick: 10 + 10 | 20 |
Bids in, totals out.
Tabletales is a scorepad and scrapbook for game night. In Five Hundred, pick Teams and type each hand’s points under one partner of the side that scored: Tabletales adds up each side’s total. Whether a side reached 500 by making its bid is still for the table to decide.
- Partners added togetherTap a letter to put each player on Team A or B, then type a side’s hand under one partner. The teams bar adds them up.
- Going set is one tapMissed the bid? Tap ± and type the bid’s value: it shows in red and comes off the total.
- Watch 500 yourselfSet the game to play to 500 and it sits in the header. The trophy goes to the higher total, so if the side that made its bid reaches 500 with a lower total than the other side, note who really won. Watch for a side at minus 500 too.
- And the night is keptSave it with who played and a photo from the table. Each game gets a history: how often you play it, who with, and who wins.
- Everyone who was there
- Photos from the table
- Five Hundred, with its scores
Common Five Hundred scoring mistakes
- Paying the contractors for extra tricksA made bid scores just its chart value. Only all 10 tricks on a bid worth less than 250 is raised, to 250.
- Forgetting the opponents’ tricksThey score 10 a trick even when the bid is made, though nothing against a misère.
- Crowning the opponents at 500A side must reach 500 by making a bid. Trick points on defense cannot win it.
- Mixing it up with Rummy 500Five Hundred is a bidding and trick-taking game. Rummy 500 is a rummy game where the cards you lay down score.
Five Hundred scoring, answered
- How do you score the 500 card game?
- The side that won the bid scores its value from the chart if it takes at least the tricks it bid, or loses that value if it does not. The other side scores 10 for each trick it took.
- What are the bid values in 500?
- 6 spades is 40, 6 clubs 60, 6 diamonds 80, 6 hearts 100 and 6 no trumps 120. Each extra trick bid adds 100, up to 520 for 10 no trumps; misère is 250 and open misère 500.
- How do you win the 500 card game?
- Reach 500 on a hand where your side made its bid; points taken as the opponents do not count for the win. Some tables let the first side to 500 win, the bidders if both get there together. A side at minus 500 loses.
Five Hundred score sheet
Print one for the table: Team A and Team B, twenty hands, a space for each bid, the hand’s points and a running total, with the whole bid chart at the bottom.
Score another game
Tables differ: under the original rules the first side to 500 wins, the bidders if both get there in one hand; some tables stop the opponents scoring near 500, and some count misère as 150 or 230. Bicycle Cards has no page for Five Hundred; Pagat and Wikipedia agree on the whole bid chart. Rules checked on 19 October 2026 against Pagat and Wikipedia.
Keep score tonight. Keep the night for good.
Tabletales adds up every hand, then saves the whole night: the games, the scores, the photos and who was there.
