You must know that Teen Patti is a very popular card game in India. You can play it not only during Diwali, but also with your family and friends. What’s more, more and more online platforms also provide you with various Teen Patti variations, me friend.
This article will introduce some of the most common Teen Patti variations, whether you want to play with friends and family, or online with people you don’t know, we are sure you will find something new here.
In addition to being easy to get started, one of the biggest advantages of Teen Patti is that it has many game variations. You only need to master the basic gameplay, and you can extend many more challenging, exciting or interesting variants.
First of all, you should know that the core of Teen Patti is to combine the hands into a high-ranking hand, and the winner can get all the rewards. Therefore, in this game, the factors that can be changed are basically “gameplay” and ” scoring method”.
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Faster, more exciting Teen Patti variations
5-5-5
In this Teen Patti variation, each player gets 3 cards from the dealer, and all players can exchange one of their own cards with one of the cards in the deck. Players can exchange cards in the first two rounds, each round Only one can be exchanged.
There is no limit to the betting method, you can decide it freely.
All cards have a certain value and the player closest to 5-5-5 wins the game. The best hand can either be lesser or greater than 555, and the suit doesn’t matter.
Scoring is done as follows:
A, K, Q, J, 10 = 0
Number 2~9 will be the exact the same as the number
For example, if you get 4-J-9, and your opponent gets 2-6-A, then your points are 4-0-9 and his will be 2-6-0, your points are closer to 5 than his -5-5, you win.
- Difficulty: ★☆☆
- Exciting level: ★☆☆
- Speed of raising money: ★☆☆
999
999 is very similar to the 5-5-5 mentioned above. One of the biggest differences is that the Teen Patti variation of 999 is calculated by the maximum sum of numbers arranged when scoring. When 5-5-5 is calculated by individual hands The difference between the number of cards and 5 is calculated.
There is no limit to the betting method, you can decide it freely.
Scoring is done as follows:
K, Q, J ,10= 0
A=1
Numbers 2~9 will be exactly the same as numbers
If you get 8-2-A, your number is 821. Therefore, you can adjust the order of the numbers. If you get a 3-7-K, then you can change the number from 370 to 730.
- Difficulty: ★☆☆
- Exciting level: ★☆☆
- Speed of raising money: ★☆☆
Cobra Teen Patti
Cobra is also known as Maatha and only one card is dealt to each player. All players put a pre-agreed amount into the pot. No one saw their cards, they all took them and put them on their foreheads. Players will not be able to see their own cards, but will be able to see other players’ cards.
The player with the highest card wins, and this part seems to be the same as the classic teen patti rules.
In this simple variant, no player has the option to fold (Cuz you only have one card, bro!!). This is a very simple version, and it’s even more exciting with familiar friends.
There is no limit to the betting method, and you can freely decide the multiple of the bet or the minimum bet.
- Difficulty: ★☆☆
- Exciting level: ★★★
- Speed of raising money: ★★☆
Banko
In this Teen Patti variation, each player takes turns playing against themselves.
When it’s your turn, you have to bet first into the prize pool, the dealer then deals you two face up cards, and you have to bet whether the next card is between those two numbers.
If you guess the right number, you stay in the game, but if you guess wrong you’re out and lose your bet. The game continues until only one player remains, who is the winner of the entire prize pool.
- Difficulty: ★☆☆
- Exciting level: ★★☆
- Speed of raising money: ★★★
Discard One
Among all the Teen Patti variations, Discard One can be said to be the closest variation to the original gameplay, the only difference is that the player will get 4 cards at the beginning. Each player needs to choose the best 3 cards from 4 cards and discard the 4th card.
Since you need to choose combinations, all players must play Chaal, and the rest of the rules are the same as the original Teen Patti.
- Difficulty: ★☆☆
- Exciting level: ★★☆
- Speed of raising money: ★★☆
2 Cards Open
In this Teen Patti variation, each player gets 2 cards open and 1 face-down card.
When all players’ cards are on the table, they can decide their individual bets based on what cards they guess are face down in their hands, which means that if you are very confident in your closed cards, you can increase your bets.
The winner is the one with the highest ranking among the 3 cards in hand. This Teen Patti variation is not allowed to choose blind or chaal.
- Difficulty: ★☆☆
- Exciting level: ★★★
- Speed of raising money: ★★☆
More challenging Teen Patti variations:
Community
There are two versions of this Teen Patti variation, the 3-card Community and the 5-card Community.
In a 3-card community, players receive two face-down cards and one face-up card, which is called the community card. You must combine a card from your hand with the face up card to form the highest ranking hand.
In a 5-card Community, players receive two cards face down and three cards face up, and you must use the two cards in your hand and one of the cards face up to combine them into the highest ranking hand.
*Optional: The dealer places three face-up cards on the table, and the player can choose one of them to replace a card in his hand.
This Teen Patti variation is very similar to Texas Hold’em where the player is prohibited from playing blind or chaal. You are free to decide the minimum raise amount.
- Difficulty: ★★★
- Exciting level: ★★☆
- Speed of raising money: ★★★
In-Out
Teen Patti variation called In & Out here means that you need to express whether you want to continue to participate in the game. Everyone gets 3 cards, and the dealer places 3 Joker cards on the table. You must use 3 cards from your hand and 2 cards from the table to form the highest ranking hand.
When you choose “In,” you must raise. You can choose to play Blind or Seen(Chaal):
Choose to play blind–you should place 1~2X of the Ante.
Choose to play seen–you should place 2~4X of the Ante.
When you choose “Out,” your hand will be announced on the table instead of the original 3 joker cards, and the rest of the players will continue to compare their hands until the last person left is the winner, who can win all the prize pools money.
- Difficulty: ★★☆
- Exciting level: ★★☆
- Speed of raising money: ★★★
Temperature
This is similar to the in-out Teen Patti variation (see details above). The three cards dealt to all players and the three trump cards are placed face up on the table. After the cards are dealt, players must declare whether they are “in” or “out”. Players will show this by giving a thumbs up for “in” and a thumbs up for “out”.
After the player chooses “in” or “out”, he draws a “temperature” card and opens it on the table. If the temperature card is between an A and a 6, the person with the lowest hand wins. But if the temperature card is between 7 and K, the highest hand wins.
Other rules are the same as in-out games.
- Difficulty: ★★☆
- Exciting level: ★★☆
- Speed of raising money: ★★☆
King Little
In this Teen Patti variation, all Kings are treated as Joker cards, which means you can use them as any card. In addition, there is another condition, that is, among the 3 cards each player gets, the card with the smallest point will become the Joker.
For example, suppose you have K, J, and 3 in your hand, and your K and 3 become universal joker cards, you can use these two cards as J, and you have the hand card “J, J, J”
- Difficulty: ★★☆
- Exciting level: ★★☆
- Speed of raising money: ★☆☆
Kiss-Miss-Bliss
The main difference between Kiss-Miss-Bliss and regular teen patti, is there are 5 cards dealt to each player as we all know that supposed to be 3 cards in the original teen patti rules. You will have to select 2 cards together to make a “joker/wild” out of your hand cards.
There’s no limitation of which two to select, and there are 3 types of jokers you can make: Kiss, Miss, or Bliss.
- Kiss: A numerically sequential pair is considered a single virtual wild card; for example A,2 or 8,9 or J,Q – but K,A isn’t considered wild.
- Miss: A pair missing the card that would form a sequence is considered a single virtual wild card; for example A,3 or 8,10 or J,K – but K,2 isn’t considered wild.
- Bliss: A pair having two same-numbered cards (regardless of suit or colour) is considered a single virtual wild card; for example 8,8 or A,A.
You can only form one joker card in each round. One of the remaining cards will have to be discarded for the game to continue. In that way you will only have 3 cards. 2 regular cards and 2 cards that form a joker card.
In this real cash Teen Patti variation, you have to discard 2 cards if you are not able to form a joker/wild.
- Difficulty: ★★☆
- Exciting level: ★★☆
- Speed of raising money: ★☆☆
Conclusion
With all these fun Teen Patti Variations, can’t you wait to try out some of these with your friends? If you’ve played the classic Teen Patti many times at parties and are feeling a little bored, give it a try next time A few of them featured in this post, I promise they will definitely liven up your gatherings with friends and family!
