MINUS

Jamidar's

MINUS

The Original Callbreak

Play India's beloved village card game — MINUS, the original Callbreak.

The trick-taking game played across North Indian card tables, with the rule that makes it bite: taking the most tricks is not the point. You score by making your bid — take at least as many tricks as you said you would. Fall short, even by one, and the whole bid goes negative. Take more and there's no penalty, but no bonus either.

Unlike ordinary Callbreak, spades isn't always trump — win the auction and you name the cut suit yourself.

New · Kaat Bol 4 players 13 tricks Live voice Hindi · Hinglish · English No betting · No real money
The MINUS table mid-hand: four players around a sage-green
                  table, cards played into the middle, your own hand fanned
                  along the bottom.

New game

Kaat Bol — two against two, and not one bid

The second game at the same table. You and the player opposite are a party; there is no auction, no bidding and no points. What there is instead is the pile.

Call the kaat

Five cards each. The player after the dealer names the kaat off those five — or skips, and it is spades.

Win two in a row

A won trick goes to the pile in the middle. Only the same player winning two tricks running picks it up — your partner's win does not count.

Seven takes the round

Pick up seven and the round is your party's. Leave the other side with nothing at all and it is a baaji.

Rang badalna

Once all thirteen are dealt, anyone may change the kaat — and must then take all thirteen. One pickup by the others ends it on the spot.

What's new

A table with a world around it

World leaderboard

Every finished game counts: total score, best game, wins, rating and streak — ranked across everybody who plays, and among your friends.

A profile and a rating

Your own page with your record, your recent games as a graph, a rating that moves with every result, and a wall to post on.

Daily streaks

Finish a game a day and the flame grows. Yours and your friends' are on show, and the fortnight is drawn out day by day.

Friends, chat and groups

Everybody you sit down with becomes a friend you can message. Play with the same people often and a group opens for you by itself.

Watch the best, live

When a top-ten player is at an online table you can watch the game, hear the table and talk in the viewers' chat. The cards stay face down.

Share it

The scoreboard and the leaderboard both save as a picture, with your own line picked out, ready for any group you like.

Live

The leaderboard, as it stands right now

  1. Reading the board…

The same ranking the app shows, refreshed every minute. Sign in and finish a game to be on it.

MINUS Premium

The whole game, without a single ad

₹499a month in India
₹899a month elsewhere, in your own currency
  • No ads — none in games, none in the menus.
  • Ad-free tables — host a game and nobody at it sees an ad between rounds.
  • A blue tick beside your name.
  • Your social handles on your profile.
  • Everything unlocked — every table theme and card back.

Paid securely through the App Store or Google Play, inside the app, from version 1.0.19 — MINUS never sees your card. It renews monthly and can be cancelled at any time from your store's Subscriptions. The game itself stays free, and there is no betting and no real-money play anywhere in it.

A hand, start to finish

Five decisions and thirteen tricks

Every screen below is the actual game, caught mid-hand. Nothing here is a mock-up.

  1. The MINUS home screen with Resume, New Game and
                      Multiplayer.
    01

    Sit down

    Three bots that bid like people, or a room full of friends. The game keeps your seat either way — walk out mid-hand and it is still there when you come back.

  2. The auction: five cards in hand and a bid wheel offering a
                      number or NAHI BOLNA to pass.
    02

    The auction

    Five cards each — that is all you get to judge by. Bid for the right to name the kaat, the cut suit that will beat everything else for the rest of the hand, or say nahi bolna and let somebody else carry the risk.

  3. The final bid in a live room: thirteen cards fanned along
                      the bottom, every player's number on the board, and an
                      estimate of how many tricks this hand can take.
    03

    Name your number

    The rest of the deck comes out and everybody commits: how many of the thirteen tricks will you take? Nobody may pass. Hold real strength and you can take over the kaat with a big enough bid — and the table gets one chance to fight you for it.

  4. Mid-trick: cards played into the centre of the table, each
                      seat showing its bid and score.
    04

    Thirteen tricks

    Follow suit if you can. If you can beat what is on the table, you must — no quietly ducking out of a trick you did not want. Every seat carries its bid where you can see it, so you always know who is desperate.

  5. The round scoreboard: what each player bid, what they took,
                      and the points added or taken away.
    05

    Make your bid, or minus

    Make your bid — or more — and you score exactly what you bid; extra tricks earn nothing, so there's no reward for greed. Come up short and the whole bid comes off your total instead. First past the target takes the game; everyone else has usually been negative at least once on the way.

Play online

Your table, wherever everyone happens to be

Rooms in one tap

Open a room and share the code, a link or a QR. Friends drop in from wherever they are — or hit Random Live Players and take the next free seat going.

Nobody gets stranded

Lose signal, take a call, lock your phone: a bot covers your seat so the table keeps playing, and hands it straight back the moment you return. Even the host can walk out — the game elects a new one and carries on.

Told when it matters

A friend calling you to a table, somebody walking into your room, a hand waiting on your card — the phone tells you, and each kind can be switched off on its own.

Talk across the table

Live voice chat and one-tap taunts, because half of this game has always been what gets said while the cards are down.

A live four-player room at the end of a round: two real
                    players and two bots, each with what they bid, what they
                    took, and the points it cost them.
A real room, mid-match
The running scores in the same room: a column per player,
                    round by round, with the totals underneath.
Every round, every player
The online menu: resume, friends, random live players, create
                    room and join room.
Everything online, one screen

The rules, short

Two rounds of bidding, then thirteen tricks

  1. The auction. Five cards each. Players bid for the right to name the kaat — the cut suit that beats everything else for the rest of the hand.
  2. The cut. Whoever takes the auction names the kaat, and the rest of the deck is dealt out.
  3. The second bid. Now everyone commits to a number: how many of the thirteen tricks they will take. Nobody may pass. A player holding real strength can take over the cut with a big enough bid — and the table gets one chance to fight back.
  4. The play. Follow suit if you can. If you can beat the card on the table, you must. Thirteen tricks, no mercy.
  5. The scoring. Make your bid or more and you score it. Fall short and you score it minus — going over never hurts, but never helps. That is the whole game, and the whole cruelty.
Meet-your-bid scoring Kaat takeover & war Bot difficulty: easy · medium · hard Target 31 · 41 · 51

The table

You know these four

THE MINUS SHOWDOWN

Aaj kaun bolega sabse badi kaat?

म्हारी काट पक्की सै!

Hardeep, holding his cards.
HARDEEP

आज तो तू गया, भईया!

Ram Swarup, holding his cards.
RAM SWARUP

माइनस थारै नाम!

Phool Singh, holding his cards.
PHOOL SINGH

ਆ ਜਾ, ਹਰਾ ਕੇ ਵਿਖਾਵਾਂ!

Gurbax, holding his cards.
GURBAX

Pick whichever one you want to be — they are four players at a card table, not four places. Every seat plays by the same rules.

Get the game

Free to play. No ads in the middle of a hand.

On the App Store for iPhone and iPad, on Google Play for Android, or open it in a browser and start playing. Two games — MINUS and Kaat Bol — solo against three bots that actually play like people, or in a room with your own table.

The browser version is the whole game — same table, same bots, same rooms — and needs no install at all.

Made in India

Made in India, with love — by Indians, for India

MINUS is designed, built and maintained in India — the rules, the art direction, the online play and the app itself. Suggestions and bug reports go straight to us, and they get read.