Call Break King is a strategic trick based card game which is very similar to Spades. Call Break King is a very popular game in India and Nepal. This Call Break King is also called Lakdi, Lakadi in India. This Call Break King is played by four players with a standard deck of 52 in which Spade is always the trump.
Game Rules -
1) This Call Break King is played by four players with a standard deck of 52 in which Spade is always the trump.
2) Call Break King will be five rounds of play or five deals in anticlockwise direction.
3) Player have to make a "Call" or "bid" for the number of hands he/she can capture, and the objective is to capture at least that many hand in a round, and try to break other players( which are 3 computers with artificial intelligence in this mode ) i.e. stop them from getting their Call.
4)First Player have to start a game by throwing a card of any suit. Suit thrown by this player will be the led suit .
5) Other Players should throw the same suit unless they runs out of that particular suit. If they dont have same led suit player can throw a card of another suit including a Spade which is a trump card.
6) The highest card of the led suit will capture the hand, but if the led suit was broken by spade(s), then in this case highest ranked card of spade will capture the hand.
Deal -
There will be five rounds of play or five deals in this Call Break game. In each round, it deals all the cards in anti-clockwise direction to all the four players i.e. 13 cards per each player.
Bid -
Each player has to bid a number of tricks or hands which is minimum tricks he/she must win to get a positive score in that round. Extra tricks won will be added in the score.
Score -
After each round, points will be updated for every player. If a player captured at least the number of call or bid he/she had made, then for every trick a player won- one point is given to that player and for every extra wins- a single digit decimal (0.1) will be added to the points total (Additional tricks (Over Tricks) are worth an extra 0.1 times one point each) i.e. if someone had made a bid/call of 4 and he captured 5 hands then he will be given 4.1 or if the bid/call was 3 then point would have been 3.2. But if a player didnt take at least as many tricks as her/his bid , then the total number of bid/call would be subtracted from his total score.
Features-
All other 3 computers are with artificial intelligence in the single player mode.