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Call Break

Callbreak · the card game of Nepal

Call your tricks, then win at least that many. Spades are always trumps, and you must win the trick whenever you can. Four players, five rounds.

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Also called Callbreak, Ghochi and Lakdi. Other games where you bid tricks: Oh HellContract Whist

Play Call Break online for free

Call Break (Callbreak) is the card game everyone in Nepal knows, and a favourite across India too. Four players each play for themselves, spades are always trumps, and every round starts with a call: the number of tricks you promise to win. Make it and you score it; fall short and you lose it.

Play it free in your browser against three computer players, or start a private table and send the link to your friends and family: the computer takes any empty seat. No download, no app and no sign-up.

How to play Call Break

  1. The deal. One 52-card pack, aces high. All the cards are dealt, 13 each. Spades are always trumps.
  2. The call. Starting after the dealer, each player calls how many tricks they will win: at least 1, at most 8. Everyone sees every call.
  3. Must win if you can. Follow suit, and beat the best card in the trick if you can. With none of the suit led, play a spade, higher than any spade already played if you can. Otherwise play any card. Cards you may not play are greyed out, with a line saying why.
  4. Win the trick. The highest spade wins; if there is none, the highest card of the suit led. The winner leads next.
  5. Score. Win at least your call: score the call, plus 0.1 for each extra trick (call 4, win 6: 4.2). Win fewer: lose your call. After five rounds the highest total wins.

Play against AI opponents

The computer players never see your cards. They call from their spades, side aces and guarded kings, and lead short suits so they can trump them later. Easy players guess their calls and often play any card allowed; Medium players cash their winners and win tricks as cheaply as they can; Hard players also count every card played, read the must-win rule to know who is out of a suit or a high card, keep their high spades once their call is made, and fight to stop you making yours. Choose five rounds or a short game of three.

Learn the full Call Break rules

The deal, calling 1 to 8 tricks, the must-win rule with examples, spades as trumps, scoring the call plus 0.1 a trick, the redeal rule and five rounds.

Read the full Call Break rules