Monday, February 14, 2011

Teen do Paanch Card Game

Teen do Paanch is a three player card game played in India usually by kids. Teen do paanch card game is very exciting, easy to learn and loads of fun.

In India, kids usually start with saath-aath card game and then move up the ladder with teen do paanch and then they take on card games like rummy, dehla pakad, chokdi, teen-patti etc. These games are a little tough as it involves higher degree of tricks involved.
The beauty of teen do paanch is that even the elders who usually play rummy card game, bridge, chokdi, teenpatti, dehla pakad etc like it because it has a childishness involved in this game. Learn how teen do paanch card game is played and you will know how much fun it is:

Players in teen do paanch card game: 3 players

Hands in a teen do paanch card game: One player makes 5 hands, the second player has to make 3 hands and the dealer has to make 2 hands.

Number of cards in a teen do paanch card game: 30 cards. Out of the 52 cards, 22 cards are removed. Ace to Seven of spades and hearts and Ace to eight of clubs and diamonds form the playing 30 cards.

Card distribution in a typical teen do paanch card game:

Dealer: Three cards a 2, a 3 and a 5 are taken out, shuffled and then distributed. Whosoever gets the 2 becomes the dealer as he has to make 2 hands and the person sitting on his right has to make 5 hands. The third player has to make 3 hands. In total, 10 hands are to be made.
The player who makes 2 hands in this game will make 3 hands in the next game as the player who is supposed to make 5 hands in this game will deal and would make 2 hands.

Card distribution: Each player gets 10 cards.

First Step: 5 cards are distributed to each player in two rounds. The player who has to make 5 hands declares the trump from those 5 cards. If the player is not comfortable in declaring the trump from those 5 cards, he/she can open a random card from the next 5 cards that he/she would get and that suit becomes the trump for that particular game.

How the teen do paanch card game is played?

The player who has to make 5 hands starts the game. The aim is to make more and more hands.

At the end of the game, if a player has made more hands than he/she is supposed to; he/she has the right to pull/take those many cards or choose from the opponent i.e. if X, Y and Z are playing a teen do paanch card game and X was suppose to make 2 hands, Y was supposed to make 5 hands and Z was supposed to make 3 hands. Here X ended up making 4 hands, Y ended up making 4 hands and Z ended up making 2 hands. So X made 2 extra hands and is now eligible to pull out one card from Y and Z each in the next game.

How the card pulling rule works?
Taking the example above, X will draw one card from the ten cards of Y (without seeing cards of Y) and then return one card to Y. And, will do the same with Z too. This process happens after the trump is declared. Here X has a chance to get a good card from Y and Z and return them less usefull cards. This way X gets rewarded for making more than required hands in the previous game.

Teen do paanch card game is quite popular in India but it is not as popular as teenpatti or rummy. This, it seems is the reason why an online teen do paanch card game is not available. Also, not sure if playing teen do paanch card game online for real money would be legal to play in India. As far as legality is concerned, only rummy card game is allowed to be played online for real money in India.

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