Taash KhelTeen Patti variation
Hukam in 3 Patti
A card is turned face up and every card of that rank becomes wild for the hand. The ranking never changes — only how easily you reach it.
One card is drawn and all four cards of that rank become wild. If a nine is turned, every nine is a joker for that hand.
What a drawn rank actually reaches
| Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Cards made wild | 4 | 7.69% of 52 |
| Hands holding at least one | 4,804 | 21.74% |
| Hands with none | 17,296 | 78.26% |
About one hand in five. Those are the same numbers as the Joker variation in 3 Patti, because the mechanic is the same — one rank, four cards. The names differ by table and by app, not by arithmetic.
The disagreement worth knowing
We checked seven published descriptions. Six say Hukam draws a card and makes that rank wild. One describes it instead as naming a trump suit, where any card of that suit can act as a wild.
The two readings behave very differently: a rank reaches 21.74% of hands, a whole suit reaches 58.65%. Agree which one before the deal — it is the single biggest unstated assumption in this variation.
The word itself is the clue. Hukum means spades in Hindi, alongside paan, eent and chidi — the vocabulary is on taash ke patte, card names in Hindi — which is likely where the suit reading came from.
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How the suit gets chosen
In most house versions the dealer names the hukam suit before looking at any cards, which keeps it honest. Some tables turn the top card of the deck and use its suit instead.
Either way the suit is fixed for the hand and everyone knows it before betting starts. A suit named after the deal, by a player who has seen their cards, is not Hukam — it is a different game with a worse name.
Where hukam sits in the order
A hand of the hukam suit beats the same hand type in any other suit. A pair of fives in hukam beats a pair of fives in any other suit, but still loses to a pair of sixes anywhere.
The hand type order itself does not change: a trail still beats a pure sequence, which still beats a sequence, colour, pair and high card in that order.
Common questions
What is Hukam in 3 Patti?
A card is drawn and all four cards of that rank become wild for the hand. If a jack is turned, every jack is a joker.
How many hands hold the Hukam rank?
4,804 of the 22,100 possible hands — 21.74%, about one in five.
Is Hukam the same as the Joker variation?
Mechanically yes. Both make one drawn rank wild, which is four cards. The names differ by table and by app.
Does Hukam change the hand ranking?
No. Trail still beats pure sequence. Only the number of ways to reach each hand changes.
Is Hukam a trump suit instead?
One of the seven sources we checked describes it that way. Six describe a drawn rank. Agree which before dealing — a suit reaches 58.65% of hands against a rank's 21.74%.
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References
- Teen Patti at Pagat, maintained by John McLeod since 1995