Card game · 4 players
Tarneeb online: how to play, with friends or offline
Tarneeb is a classic partnership card game, played across the Levant and the Gulf. Two teams of two bid for the right to name trump, then try to take as many tricks as they promised. On Majlis you can play it against three bots with no internet, or online with your friends. Like the scoring with called tricks? Try Syrian Tarneeb 41.
At a glance
- Players: 4, in two teams. Your partner sits opposite you.
- Cards: 13 each, 13 tricks a round.
- Auction: 7 to 13 tricks; the winner names trump.
- Goal: the first team to the target score wins (31 by default).
- On Majlis: offline against 3 bots, or online at a private or public table.
How to play Tarneeb
- Each player gets 13 cards.
- The auction runs from 7 to 13. A bid is the number of the 13 tricks your team promises to take. Players bid higher or pass, and the highest bid wins the auction.
- The winner of the auction names trump.
- Follow the suit that was led whenever you hold it. The highest card of that suit takes the trick, and any trump beats all of them.
- The round ends as soon as its result is settled: when the bidding team reaches its bid, or when it can no longer reach it.
Scoring and winning
- Make the bid and your team scores it. Miss it and the bid comes off your total.
- A bid of 13 that is made scores 26; a failed 13 costs 16.
- When the bidders make their bid, the other team scores nothing that round. When the bid fails, the other team scores the tricks it took.
- The first team to reach the target score wins.
Play Tarneeb on Majlis
Play alone against three bots with no internet and no account, or online with your friends: open a private table and share its join code or invite link, or sit at a public table. Bots fill any empty seat. The full rules are in the app, under the info button before you start.
Free to play, with optional in-app purchases. Android 6.0 and later, iOS 15.0 and later. No account needed.