Teen Patti
South Asia's most popular card game, closely related to Three Card Brag: three cards each, with the same blind/seen betting tension and a beloved place at festival gatherings.
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Rules
Teen Patti ("three cards" in Hindi) is dealt exactly like Three Card Brag, with three face-down cards to each player after everyone antes ("boot amount") into the pot. There is no draw and no community cards.
As in Brag, players may choose to play "blind" (chaal, without looking at their cards) for a lower stake, or look at their cards and play "seen" (chaal) for double the blind stake. A blind player may also choose to "see" their cards at any point, after which they must start betting at the seen rate.
Hand rankings, highest to lowest: trail/set (three of a kind, with three aces highest), pure sequence (three consecutive cards, same suit — the equivalent of a straight flush), sequence/run (three consecutive cards, mixed suits), color (three same-suit cards, not in sequence — equivalent to a flush), pair, and high card.
A unique showdown mechanic: rather than a single call ending the hand, a player may request a private "side show" with the player who acted immediately before them (if both are "seen"), comparing hands quietly — the loser of a side show must fold, without revealing the hands to the rest of the table.
Strategy notes: As in Brag, the blind/seen asymmetry is the heart of the game's strategy; Teen Patti is especially popular as a social, festival, and family gathering game across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal, often played for very small stakes or matchsticks rather than serious money.
Common house rules
Side show only between consecutive seen players
The private side-show comparison can only be requested against the player who acted immediately before you, and only if both of you are 'seen' — it can't be requested against a blind player or skipped ahead to an earlier player.
Pot limit on raises
Many tables cap each raise at the current pot size (rather than allowing unlimited raises) to keep the game from spiraling entirely on blind bluffs.
Joker/wild-card variants
Numerous festive house variants exist — such as drawing a random rank each hand to be wild for everyone, or dealing an extra 'joker' card face up to set the wild rank — though the standard game described above has no wild cards.
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