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Omi is Sri Lanka's favourite card game. Four players make two teams, and you partner with the player sitting across the table. Before the game starts, the host can change who partners with whom in the lobby. The game uses 32 cards: only Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8 and 7 of each suit. Cards rank from Ace (best) down to 7 (worst).

Several games run at once, each at its own table. After entering your name, pick an open table (or use a friend's table invite link). A table locks as soon as its game starts, so pick another one or wait for it to finish. When a match ends you can stay at the table for a rematch.

There is one deck and it never gets magically reset. Cards collected from tricks stack up in order, and next round somebody shuffles that same pile, just like at a real table. If the shuffle is lazy, cards stay clumped together, so mix it well.

• Wash: the dealer smooshes the cards around by dragging them.
• Shuffle: chop packets off the deck (click it) or riffle it, as many times as you like.
• Cut: the player to the dealer's left slices the stack and restacks it.
• First 4 cards: everyone gets 4 cards, starting with the player to the dealer's right.
• Call trump: that same player looks at their 4 cards and picks the trump suit. Their partner must wait: their cards stay hidden under a red cross until trump is called. The other team can look at their 4 cards.
• Last 4 cards: everyone gets 4 more. Now you hold 8.
• Play 8 tricks: the trump caller leads the first trick. Play goes counter-clockwise.

Redeal: if either team holds fewer than 2 trumps between its two players, the hand cannot be played. The cards are thrown in, nobody scores, and the same dealer reshuffles, the same player cuts and the same player calls trump again.

Each player throws one card. You must follow the suit of the first card if you have that suit, and the game only lets you tap legal cards. If you have none of that suit, throw anything, including a trump. The highest trump wins the trick. If nobody played a trump, the highest card of the suit that was led wins. The winner starts the next trick.

• Trump caller's team wins 5, 6 or 7 tricks: they get 1 token.
• The other team wins 5 or more: they get 2 tokens (breaking the call is worth more).
• All 8 tricks with a Kapothi call: 3 tokens.
• A 4 to 4 tie: nobody scores, but one bonus token waits on the table for the next winners.

First team to collect 10 tokens wins the match.

If your team wins the first 6 tricks, the game asks whether you want to announce Kapothi. Announce it and sweep all 8 tricks for 3 tokens. But if you announce and then lose even one of the last two tricks, the other team grabs 4 tokens. Sweep quietly without announcing and you only get the normal 1 or 2. Brave or safe is your choice.

Anyone can press END MATCH EARLY under the scores. If every player agrees, the match stops and whoever has the most tokens wins. One "no" and the game carries on.

Tap 💬 to talk to your table. Everyone at the table sees every message (there is no private team chat), and new messages pop up next to the player who sent them. Tap a name in the chat to mute that player.

Every 4-player match is graded (S, A, B, C, D, E) on the result, your team's tokens, your tricks, the calls you made and the calls your team broke. Players are ranked by a rating that rises when you beat strong opponents and falls when you lose. Use your own name: generic names like "Player" are not ranked, and your name stays yours on this browser. Leaving a match after two rounds counts as a loss.

2 players: 8 cards each plus a draw pile. The pile's top card sets trump, and after each trick both players draw a fresh card. Best of 5 rounds. 3 players: 30 cards, 10 tricks each round, every trick you win is a point, first to 25.

• Count the trumps that have been played. 8 exist in total.
• Lead your Aces early before someone runs out of that suit and trumps them.
• If your partner is already winning the trick, don't waste a big card.