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A digital playground
for Malagasy-style Belote

Play with friends or train hard alone, build your own bots, and help grow an iconic Malagasy cultural game built in the open source spirit.

Play online with the world

Create a room, invite friends, and compete for the top of the leaderboard.

Real-time multiplayer

Create rooms with custom settings, share an invite link, and play instantly. Drop out? Reconnect mid-game without losing progress.

Competitive rankings

Climb the Elo leaderboard with margin-based scoring. Track your stats, win streaks, and earn medal badges.

6 game modes

From Clubs to All Trumps, each mode adds layers of strategy. Negotiate, double, and go for a sweep instant victory.

Play anywhere

Mobile-ready and available in Malagasy, French, and English. Play from any device with an immersive card table UI.

Everything you need to get started

Giretra is a trick-taking card game from Madagascar, born from the Belote family. Four players, two teams, 32 cards.

Learn the rules

From setup to scoring, everything you need to know to play Giretra.

Build your bot

Put your knowledge into a bot and let it compete for you on the platform.

Open source

Giretra is fully open source. Read the code, fork it, improve it.

Play online

Start a game now on play.giretra.com with friends or solo.

Build your bot in your language

Ready-to-go templates so you can focus on strategy, not boilerplate. Pick your language, duplicate a folder, edit one file.

Python

Python

Type-hinted template with clean OOP structure.

TypeScript

TypeScript

Fully typed template with modern ES modules.

C#

C#

.NET 10 template powered by ASP.NET Core.

Go

Go

Compiles to a native binary. Zero dependencies.

Java

Java

Java 17+ with Maven. Packages to a single JAR.

Start building

Ready to play Giretra?

Jump into a game, learn the rules, or build your own bot.

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