Bête (cards)

Bête (from the French bête [bɛt] = "beast", "dumb animal" or "brute"), Labet or the Germanised Bete and (Low German) Beet, is a term used in certain card games for a penalty payment e.g. for failing to take the minimum number of tricks, or for a stake or money which a player has lost. In trick-taking game, such as Mistigri and Kauflabet, the player who has failed to win a single trick is "bête" or "the Bête". Likewise in Mauscheln, if the declarer, or Mauschler, fails to win a trick, he is called the Mauschlerbete. The word is used with verbs in phrases that have further meanings:

Bête (cards)

Bête (from the French bête [bɛt] = "beast", "dumb animal" or "brute"), Labet or the Germanised Bete and (Low German) Beet, is a term used in certain card games for a penalty payment e.g. for failing to take the minimum number of tricks, or for a stake or money which a player has lost. In trick-taking game, such as Mistigri and Kauflabet, the player who has failed to win a single trick is "bête" or "the Bête". Likewise in Mauscheln, if the declarer, or Mauschler, fails to win a trick, he is called the Mauschlerbete. The word is used with verbs in phrases that have further meanings: