29 Card Game

29 is the four-player team card game loved across India, Bangladesh and Nepal: you and your

partner across the table against two rivals. It uses 32 cards, and what counts is not how

many tricks you take but which cards you take.

♠ HOW IT PLAYS

• A special order: the jack is highest, then the nine, then the ace and the ten.

• Points: each jack 3, each nine 2, each ace and ten 1, and 1 for the last trick. 29 in all.

• Bid on just four cards, from 16 to 28. The highest bidder chooses the trump.

• The hidden trump: the bidder lays one card face down. Its suit is trump and nobody else

  knows it until a player who can't follow suit asks to see it.

• The pair: the king and queen of trump in one hand move the target by 4.

• The first team to +6 wins.

♠ HOUSE RULES

• Seventh-card trump: the bidder's seventh card decides the trump.

• Single hand: play alone with no trump and win all 8 tricks.

• Double and redouble: the round is worth 2 or 4.

Switch any of them off before the game.

♠ FAIR, SMART BOTS

No bot but the bidder ever sees the hidden trump. They bid on what four cards are worth,

feed points to a winning partner, and ask for the trump when a trick is worth it.

♠ PICK YOUR PARTNER AND RIVALS

Sit down with a cast of characters, each with their own skill and temper.

♠ AND MORE

• Cards the rules don't allow stay dimmed, even "you must trump", and the game tells you why.

• Resume any game exactly where you left it.

• Stats, a daily challenge and streak, and badges.

• In 18 languages, including Hindi, Nepali and Bengali.

• Several card decks and backs, and sound.

Everything runs on your phone: no account, no internet, no ads. From the makers of Hokm

Everything runs on your phone: no account, no internet, no ads. From the makers of "family card games"  with over 230,000 players.