Trix online: how to play, with friends or offline
Trix is a classic four-player card game made of four kingdoms. In each kingdom one player is king and picks the order of five contracts: four where you try not to take certain cards, and Trix itself, a race to empty your hand. Majlis has Trix, Trix Partner and Trix Complex, offline against bots or online with friends.
At a glance
- Players: 4, each for themselves. In Trix Partner the player opposite you is your partner.
- Length: 4 kingdoms of 5 contracts, 20 contracts in all.
- Contracts: King of Hearts, Queens, Diamonds, Ltoosh and Trix.
- Goal: the highest total after the 20th contract wins.
- On Majlis: offline against 3 bots, or online at a private or public table.
How to play Trix
- The game has four kingdoms. In each one, a single player is king and picks the order of the five contracts.
- Four contracts are about avoiding cards: King of Hearts, Queens, Diamonds and Ltoosh. What you capture in them costs you points, so losing tricks is the whole idea.
- There is no trump. Follow the suit that was led when you can; the highest card of that suit takes the trick.
- The fifth contract, Trix, has no tricks at all. Every suit opens with its Jack and grows one rank at a time in each direction, and the first player to empty their hand scores best.
Scoring and winning
- King of Hearts: −75 for whoever takes it.
- Queens: −25 for each Queen you take.
- Diamonds: −10 for each diamond you take.
- Ltoosh: −15 for each trick you take.
- Trix: +200, +150, +100 and +50, in the order players empty their hands.
- You may double the King of Hearts or your Queens: a doubled King of Hearts costs whoever takes it 150 instead of 75, and a doubled Queen 50 instead of 25.
- The highest total after the 20th contract wins.
Trix Partner
Trix card for card, with the same scores and the same doubling, but the player opposite you is your partner. Each of you keeps your own score; your team's score is the two added together, and the team with the higher total after the 20th contract wins (an exact tie is a draw).
You never see your partner's cards. In the Trix contract, once everyone has had a first turn, every 2 still in a hand is shown face up so the whole table knows who holds it.
Play Trix 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.