Mindi - Desi Card Game

Desi Mindi is four-player partnership game, in which the object is to win tricks containing tens, is played in India.There are four players in two teams, partners sitting opposite.

Deal and play are anticlockwise. A standard international 52-card pack is used. The cards of each suit rank from high to low A-K-Q-J-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2.The first dealer is chosen by drawing cards from a shuffled pack - it can be agreed that the player who draws the highest or the lowest card deals.

The cards drawn can also be used to determine the partnerships, the players who draw the highest cards forming a team against the players who draw the lowest cards.

The dealer shuffles and deals 13 cards to each player: first a batch of five to each and the remainder in batches of four.

here are several different methods for choosing the trump suit (hukum) .

1. Hide hukum (closed tump):

The player to dealer's right selects a card from his or her hand and places it on the table face down. The suit of this card will be the trump suit.

2 katte hukum : Play begins without choosing a trump suit. The first time that a player is unable to follow suit, the suit of the card that he or she chooses to play becomes trump for the deal. (Playing a trump on a plain suit lead is known as cutting).

The side that has three or four tens in its tricks wins the deal. If each side has two tens, then the winners are the team that won seven or more tricks.

Winning by capturing all four tens is known as mendikot. Taking all thriteen tricks is a 52-card mendikot or whitewash.

There seems to be no formal method of scoring. The aim is simply to win as often as possible, a win by mendikot being regarded as better than an ordinary win.

The result determines which member of the losing team should deal next, as follows:.

If the dealer's team loses, the same player continues to deal unless they lose a whitewash (all 13 tricks), in which case the deal passes to the dealer's partner.

If the dealer's team wins, the turn to deal passes to the right.