Four player card games

The climbing game from Hong Kong and southern China, also called Deuces, Pusoy Dos and Capsa Banting. Twos are high and poker hands decide the big plays.

Also as Pusoy Dos · Capsa Banting

Vietnam's favourite card game. Straights of any length, no five-card poker hands, and chops that let a run of pairs beat a 2.

Tiến Lên's northern cousin: ten cards each, suits don't count, and you can declare Sâm to go out unbeaten for a big payout.

Claim your cards face-down, bluff when you have to, and call BS on everyone else. Whoever is wrong picks up the pile.

Also as Cheat

Finish first to become President; finish last and you're the Scum, handing over your best cards next round.

Also as Daifugō (大富豪)

Vietnam's rummy game: nine cards each, eat the last discard into a phỏm, lay down after four rounds, and win with the fewest loose points, or go Ù.

China's two-deck team climbing game: you and the partner opposite climb levels from 2 to Ace, with wild hearts and bombs up to four jokers.

The trick-taking game where you score only for taking exactly the tricks you bid. Hands shrink from seven cards to one and grow back again.

Also as Nomination Whist

France's favourite card game: 32 cards, the jack and nine of trumps on top, announcements and belote-rebelote, first team to 1000.

Belote with an auction, the way most of France plays it online: bid a contract from 80 to capot in your trump suit, coinche the other side's bid, then make your points with your partner.

The Dutch national card game: choose trumps, take more than half the points with your partner, and score roem for runs, stuk and four of a kind. Rotterdam or Amsterdam rules.

Germany's other national card game: two of every card, and the two players holding the queen of clubs are partners, though nobody says who. Announce Re or Kontra, catch the Fuchs and play solos.

Whist with an auction: bid how many tricks your partnership will take, from seven to thirteen, and which suit is trumps, or no trumps. Make your contract and score every trick; fail and the defenders take the points.

The trick-taking game of Nepal and India: call how many tricks you will win, then win at least that many. Spades are always trumps, and you must beat the trick whenever you can.

Portugal's national card game: 40 cards, the dealer's last card sets trumps, and play goes anticlockwise. Follow suit, feed your partner aces and sevens, and take 61 of the 120 points to win a game; first team to four games wins.

Set your 13 cards into three poker hands, a back, a middle and a front, and beat each row of every other player. Played across Asia under its own names and scoring, each with its own table here.

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

The game of sevens, as played in India: the 7 of hearts starts, sevens open the other suits, and every row is built one card at a time down to the ace and up to the king. You must play if you can; first to empty their hand wins. The British version, Sevens or Fan Tan, has its own table.

Also as Sevens (Fan Tan) · बदाम सत्ती

Iran's favourite card game: the Hakem looks at five cards and names trumps, play goes anticlockwise, and the first team to seven tricks wins the hand. Win it 7-0 for a kot, worth two points, or three against the Hakem.

Also as حکم

The favourite card game of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine: bid 7 to 13 tricks for your team, the highest bidder names the trump suit (the tarneeb), and a made bid scores every trick taken. First team to 41. Tarneeb 41, the Syrian version, has hearts always trumps and a bid for every player.

Also as Tarneeb 41 · طرنيب