Play Tarneeb online with family and friends

How to play Tarneeb

1. Sit across from your partner: four players, two teams, and you win or lose together.
2. Everyone gets 13 cards from a standard 52-card deck.
3. Bid: starting left of the dealer, each player says how many tricks their team will win, from 7 to 13, or passes. Every bid must beat the last one. If all four pass, the cards are dealt again.
4. The highest bidder chooses the trump suit, the tarneeb, and leads the first trick.
5. Play one card each in turn. Follow the suit that was led if you can; if you can't, play any card, including a trump.
6. The highest card of the led suit wins the trick, unless someone trumped it: then the highest trump takes it.
7. After 13 tricks the hand is scored and the deal moves on, until a team reaches the target.

Tarneeb rules at a glance

• Players: 4, in two teams of two (2 vs 2). Partners sit opposite each other.
• Bids: 7 to 13 tricks. Each bid must be higher than the last, and you can always pass.
• Trump: chosen by the player who wins the bid.
• Bid made: the bidding team scores every trick it won.
• Bid missed: the bidding team loses the number it bid (bid 8, win 6: minus 8).
• Defending team: always scores the tricks it won.
• Target: 31 points in Quick, 41 points in Full. You must reach it while ahead; a tie plays on.
• Kaboot: win all 13 tricks in one hand and you earn a bonus.

Tarneeb modes in Rayoosh

• Classic: bid 7–13, the winner picks trump.
• Quick (to 31): about 12 minutes.
• Full (to 41): about 18 minutes.
• Players: 2 vs 2. Computer players can take any empty seat.

Tips to win at Tarneeb

• Count your longest suit before you bid. Five or six cards in one suit, with an ace or king, is a good reason to take trump.
• Listen to your partner. A partner who bids is showing strength, so only take the contract from them with a strong hand of your own.
• Bid what you need, not more. A made bid scores all the tricks you take anyway, so a higher bid only adds risk.
• When your team holds most of the trumps, draw them early so your side-suit winners are safe.
• Remember who has run out of which suit. A rival who can't follow may trump your king.
• On defence, every trick you win scores and pushes the bidders toward a miss.

Play Tarneeb with family and friends

Tap Play with friends, choose Quick or Full, and send the invite link on WhatsApp. Relatives can also scan the QR code or type the room code, so a grandfather on a tablet and a cousin on a laptop share one table.

• Text chat with quick phrases such as Yalla, Mashallah and Well played.
• Voice chat for seated players, so partners can laugh together over every hand.
• Emotes like a rose, a coffee cup or a crown, plus animated gifts for a great comeback.
• Practice against computer players any time; once Rayoosh is installed, you can play them even without internet.