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Tarneeb 41

Syrian 41 · 2 teams

Hearts are always trumps and everyone bids their own tricks. Reach 41 with your partner above zero.

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Play classic Tarneeb: bid for the trump suit

The classic game, with an auction for the trump suit: Tarneeb

Play Tarneeb 41 online for free

Tarneeb 41 (طرنيب 41), the Syrian 41, is the Tarneeb where everyone bids for themselves. Hearts are always trumps, each player promises a number of tricks, and partners keep separate scores but win together. Play it free in your browser with a bot partner, or at a private table with friends and family.

Four players in two teams, partners opposite, 52 cards with aces high, and play anticlockwise. Make your bid and you score its value; miss it and you lose it. Bids of five tricks or more count double.

How to play Tarneeb 41

  1. Deal. Thirteen cards each, dealt anticlockwise. Hearts are trumps every hand.
  2. Bid. From the dealer's right, each player bids once: 2 to 13 tricks they will take themselves. No passing. If the four bids add up to less than 11, the cards are dealt again.
  3. Play. The dealer's right leads. Follow suit if you can; if you can't, play any card. The highest heart wins, else the highest card of the suit led.
  4. Score. Make your bid: score its value (2-4 face value, 5-8 double, 9 and up triple). Miss it: lose that much. Extra tricks count nothing.
  5. Win. Your team wins when one of you reaches 41 and the other is above zero.

Play with a bot partner

The bots never see your cards. Easy bots misjudge their hands; Medium bots count their hearts, aces and short suits before they bid, and the last to bid stretches to reach 11 when it can; Hard bots also count every card played, note who is out of a suit, and let a partner who still needs tricks win them.

Learn the full Tarneeb 41 rules

Hearts always trumps, one bid each from 2 to 13 tricks, the minimum of 11 in all, the scoring table (5 = 10, 6 = 12, 9 = 27), and winning at 41 with your partner above zero.

Read the full Tarneeb 41 rules

Rules in other languages: Englishالعربية

Play in other languages: العربية