Taash Khel

Teen Patti · Rummy · Andar Bahar · Call Break

Know every hand before you play it.

Complete card game rules, hand rankings and regional variations for the card games played across India — written out properly, with a worked example for every hand.

हिन्दी और अंग्रेज़ी, दोनों में।

Teen Patti hand rankings Call Break rules

Six games

A tash game is simply a card game — taash in Hindi, ताश in Devanagari. Every game documented here is free to play, and every rule is written out with a worked example.

Start with the deal

Each game has its own hierarchy of hands, its own vocabulary, and its own set of regional variations. Pick one and work down.

Teen Patti

तीन पत्ती

Three cards each, six ranked hands, and a betting round built around whether you look at your cards at all.

  • Hand rankings
  • Blind & seen
  • Sideshow
  • Variations
Read the rules →

Indian Rummy

रम्मी

Thirteen cards, two sequences, one of them pure — the hard part is knowing when your hand is actually valid.

  • Pure sequence
  • Sets
  • Declaring
  • 21-card
Read the rules →

Andar Bahar

अंदर बाहर

One card in the centre, two sides, and a deal that stops the instant the rank repeats.

  • Basic rules
  • Katti
  • Mangatha
  • The edge
Read the rules →

Call Break

कॉल ब्रेक

Bid how many tricks you will win, then go and win exactly that many. Spades are always trump.

  • Bidding
  • Trick play
  • Scoring
  • Five rounds
Read the rules →

Dragon Tiger

ड्रैगन टाइगर

Two cards. One to Dragon, one to Tiger. The higher card wins and the round is over.

  • Card order
  • Ties
  • Suits
  • Round length
Read the rules →

Blackjack

ब्लैकजैक

Get closer to twenty-one than the dealer without going past it. The ace does the interesting work.

  • Card values
  • Hit & stand
  • Double
  • Split
Read the rules →

How the reference is built

Four kinds of page

Every game is documented the same way, so once you know where to look for one game you know where to look for all of them.

Rules

The full walkthrough

From the shuffle to the showdown, in order, with the exact point at which each decision has to be made.

Hands

Ranking charts

Every hand the game recognises, strongest to weakest, with a real example of each and the ties explained.

Terms

Table vocabulary

Boot, blind, seen, chaal, sideshow, tunnela, dublee — what each word means and when you will hear it.

Variants

Regional variations

Muflis, AK47, Hukam, Katti, Mangatha, 21-card. What changes, what stays, and which states play which.

Reference

Beyond the rules

Where published sources disagree, what every term means, and where these games actually stand legally.

02

Card game terms

Twenty words across six games, each with its Hindi original.

22

Dropping in Rummy

Twenty points early against eighty at the end — the cheapest decision in the game.

05

Teen Patti apps compared

What four listings declare under Data Safety. One shares your location; one collects nothing.

Side by side

Not sure which to learn?

What actually differs between these games — hand size, round length, and how many decisions a round contains.

01

Teen Patti vs Poker

Three cards against five, and the hand ranking flips — a sequence beats a colour.

All six card game comparisons →

Starting points

Common questions

The questions people ask before they pick a game to learn.

What are the most popular card games in India?

Teen Patti and Rummy are the two most widely played, followed by Andar Bahar in the south and Call Break across the north-east and Nepal. Blackjack and Dragon Tiger are played more often online than at home tables.

What is taash ka khel?

Taash means playing cards in Hindi, so taash ka khel simply means a card game. It covers everything on this site - Teen Patti, Rummy, Andar Bahar and the rest.

Which Indian card game is easiest to learn?

Andar Bahar. There is one decision - which side to pick - and the round resolves on the first matching card. Dragon Tiger is even shorter but less widely played at home.

Is Teen Patti the same as poker?

No. Teen Patti uses three cards rather than five, which reverses part of the hand ranking - a sequence beats a colour here. It also has the blind and seen betting structure, which poker has no equivalent of.

Where can I learn the rules of Indian card games?

Every game on this site has a full rules page, a hand ranking or scoring page, and a glossary of table terms, in English with the Hindi originals alongside.

Practise on your phone

Our Android games

Free card games for Android covering the games documented on this site — Teen Patti, Rummy, Andar Bahar, Call Break, Dragon Tiger and Blackjack.

Raja Teen Patti Teen Patti Alpha A second Teen Patti table with the standard rule set. Free on Google Play → Desi Rummy Thirteen-card Rummy with sequence and set practice. Free on Google Play → Andar Bahar Royale Quick rounds of the classic side-picking card game. Free on Google Play → Dragon Tiger Clash Cards Two cards, one comparison, a round every few seconds. Free on Google Play → Adda Callbreak Four-player trick taking against AI, with three difficulty levels. Free on Google Play → Blackjack Jaiho: 21 Twenty-one against the dealer, with hit, stand, double and split. Free on Google Play →

All our free Android card game downloads →