Tarneeb

How to play

1. The full 52-card pack, 13 cards each. Highest first: ace, king, queen, jack, then ten down to two. Play goes anticlockwise.
2. Bidding starts on the dealer's right. Each bid is 7 to 13 tricks, higher than the one before, or pass. A player who passes is out of the bidding for that hand.
3. Bidding ends when three players have passed after the last bid, and a bid of 13 ends it at once. If all four pass, the cards are dealt again.
4. The highest bidder chooses trump (tarneeb) and leads.
5. Follow the suit led while you can; otherwise play anything, with no duty to trump. The highest trump wins the trick, otherwise the highest card of the suit led.
6. All 13 tricks are played every hand.

Scoring and winning

• If the bid is made, the bidding team scores the tricks it took and the others score nothing.
• All 13 tricks (kaboot) score 16; a bid of 13 made scores 26.
• If the bid fails, the bidding team loses its bid (16 for a bid of 13) and the others score their tricks, or 16 if they took all 13. Scores can go below zero.
• The first team to reach 41 at the end of a hand wins. You can choose 31 or 61 instead in the game's options; quick match plays to 41.