Two Players · Handicap
Remove threes and fours; bidding sets the farmer’s handicap.
Rules and table scoring
- 2 players; one deck. Each player starts with 17 cards. The landlord receives the bottom cards.
- Remove threes and fours: 46 cards. Deal 17 each, leave three bottom cards and nine unused cards. Call, then optionally rob up to four times. The landlord allows the farmer one card plus one per successful rob.
- The landlord leads. Play a stronger combination of the same type and length, a legal bomb, or pass. Everyone else passing gives the last player a new free lead.
- Straights run from three to ace, with at least five cards. Pair runs need three pairs; triple runs and airplanes need two consecutive triples. Twos and jokers do not form runs.
- Triple-plus-single, triple-plus-pair, airplanes and four-with-two are supported. Pair wings have distinct ranks. Both jokers cannot be used together as single wings; a four-with-attachments is not a bomb.
- The landlord wins by emptying their hand; the farmers win when any farmer empties theirs. In the two-player handicap version a farmer also wins with cards at or below the agreed allowance.
- Table scoring: auction value × bomb multiplier; the landlord gains or loses one share per farmer. Ordinary bombs double the multiplier. In the wild-rank version, natural/pure-wild bombs and rockets multiply it by four. A spring doubles it; multiplier is capped at 1024.
- The room starts with a five-minute deal limit and 40 seconds per turn. A timed-out turn is covered by a bot; an unfinished deal at the time limit ends without declaring a winner.
- 2 players; one deck. Each player starts with 17 cards. The landlord receives the bottom cards.
- Remove threes and fours: 46 cards. Deal 17 each, leave three bottom cards and nine unused cards. Call, then optionally rob up to four times. The landlord allows the farmer one card plus one per successful rob.
- The landlord leads. Play a stronger combination of the same type and length, a legal bomb, or pass. Everyone else passing gives the last player a new free lead.
- Straights run from three to ace, with at least five cards. Pair runs need three pairs; triple runs and airplanes need two consecutive triples. Twos and jokers do not form runs.
- Triple-plus-single, triple-plus-pair, airplanes and four-with-two are supported. Pair wings have distinct ranks. Both jokers cannot be used together as single wings; a four-with-attachments is not a bomb.
- The landlord wins by emptying their hand; the farmers win when any farmer empties theirs. In the two-player handicap version a farmer also wins with cards at or below the agreed allowance.
- Table scoring: auction value × bomb multiplier; the landlord gains or loses one share per farmer. Ordinary bombs double the multiplier. In the wild-rank version, natural/pure-wild bombs and rockets multiply it by four. A spring doubles it; multiplier is capped at 1024.
- The room starts with a five-minute deal limit and 40 seconds per turn. A timed-out turn is covered by a bot; an unfinished deal at the time limit ends without declaring a winner.