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Play the computer

You and a computer partner against two computer players.

Who is playing

Partners sit opposite each other: seats 1 and 3 play against seats 2 and 4.

Computer players

Match length

House rules

Trumps

Scoring and seats

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How to play Mindi

Four players in two teams; partners sit opposite. A full pack of 52 cards, 13 each. Aces are high, then King, Queen, Jack, 10 and down to 2. Play goes anticlockwise (to the right).

Only the tens count

The four tens are the prize (a ten is a mindi). Win a trick with a ten in it and your team captures that ten. Capture 3 or 4 tens and your team wins the deal. If each team has two, the team that won 7 or more tricks wins.

Tricks

The player after the dealer leads any card. Everyone must follow the suit led if they can. If you can’t, play anything. The highest card of the suit led wins, unless a trump is played: then the highest trump wins. The winner leads next.

The hidden trump (hukum)

After the first five cards are dealt, the player after the dealer picks one of them and puts it face down. Its suit is trumps, but nobody else knows. The first player who can’t follow suit turns it up; it goes back to its owner, and from then on that suit beats every other suit.

Mendikot and whitewash

All four tens is a Mendikot: 2 points. All 13 tricks is a whitewash: 3 points. Any other deal won is 1 point. First team to 5 points wins the match.

Who deals

If the dealer’s team loses, the same player deals again. If it wins, the deal passes to the next player.

Tips

  • Partner winning the trick? Throw them your ten.
  • Lead an Ace to pull down a ten that’s still out.
  • Keep your ten safe behind a higher card of the same suit.

Picking and playing a card

Click a card to pick it, then click it again to play it. On a phone, slide along your hand to pick a card, then tap it again (or flick it up). A pink star marks each ten.

House rules

“Hidden, ask” (asking is optional, but if you ask you must trump), “Cut” (the first card played by someone who can’t follow suit sets trumps), “Open” (a card is drawn and shown before the deal), match length, scoring and direction are in Table settings.

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Score
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