Call Break

Call Break is a popular trick-taking game from Nepal and India for four players, each playing alone. Spades (♠) are always trump. A game lasts 5 rounds; the highest total wins.

Bidding (the "call")

After 13 cards are dealt, everyone calls how many tricks (1–8) they will win.

Playing

• The player left of the dealer leads the first trick; the winner of each trick leads the next.
• You must follow suit, and you must play a higher card than the best card of that suit already played if you can (unless the trick has already been trumped).
• If you have no card of the led suit you must trump with a spade — and beat any spade already played if you can. Only if you have no spades (or cannot over-trump) may you play any card.
• The highest spade wins the trick, otherwise the highest card of the led suit.

Scoring

• Win at least your call: score +call, plus 0.1 for each extra trick (call 3, win 5 → 3.2).
• Win fewer than your call: score −call.

Tap a highlighted card to play it (keyboard: Tab/arrows + Enter). Tip: Aces and long spades are your safest tricks — don't call too high!