Asian card games

Called Cho Dai Di in Cantonese and Pusoy Dos in the Philippines. Twos are the highest cards, Spades the highest suit, and five-card poker hands are the big plays.

China's most popular card game. One landlord against two peasants, with a 54-card deck including two jokers, and bombs and a rocket that beat everything.

Known in English as Thirteen. Like Big 2, but Hearts is the high suit, straights can be any length and there are no five-card poker hands. Chops let special combinations beat a 2.

Northern Vietnam's climbing game. Ten cards each, no suit order, straights from A-2-3 to Q-K-A, and the Sâm declaration: promise to go out unbeaten, or pay everyone.

The Filipino version of Big 2, with Diamonds as the highest suit, the 3 of Clubs opening the game and flushes compared by suit. Our Pusoy Dos table deals it by those rules.

Big 2 as Indonesians call it, played with the same suit order (wajik, keriting, hati, sekop) and the 3 of diamonds to start. Not to be confused with Capsa Susun, Indonesia's name for Chinese Poker.

The Philippines' favourite rummy game. Meld sets and runs, lay off on anyone's melds (sapaw), and win by emptying your hand or by calling Draw.

Vietnamese rummy. Eat the discard of the player before you into a phỏm, lay down and gửi on your fourth turn, and go Ù to win at once.

A two-deck climbing game from Jiangsu and Anhui that has spread across China. Partners work together to climb from 2 up to Ace, with tribute between hands.

Japan's version of President, also called Daihinmin. Finish first to become the grand millionaire; four of a kind starts a revolution that turns the card order upside down, and an 8 clears the pile.

Not a climbing game: everyone sets 13 cards into three poker hands at once, then each row is compared. Taiwan calls it 十三支, the mainland 十三水, Vietnam Mậu Binh, Indonesia Capsa Susun and the Philippines Pusoy, each with its own scoring, and each with its own table here.

Also as Pusoy · Mậu Binh · Capsa Susun · 十三張 · 十三支