How to play

A simple guide to all four games.

Pusoy

Arrange your 13 cards into three poker hands: Back (5 cards), Middle (5 cards) and Front (3 cards).

Your Back must be the strongest, then the Middle, then the Front. A wrong order is a foul and loses every hand.
Drag cards to swap them and build your hands before the timer ends.
Each of your three hands is compared to the same hand of every opponent. Win a hand, win a point.
LUCK hands win automatically: no people (no J/Q/K), six pairs, three straights, three flushes, four of a kind, straight flush. The host picks which LUCK hands count.
Banker mode: everyone plays only against the banker. Ties go to the banker.

Each point pays the stake.
Winning all three hands against someone (Pusoy) pays 2× the stake.
A LUCK hand collects 2× the stake from every opponent. LUCK against LUCK is a tie.

Three players. Get rid of your cards by forming melds (bahay), or have the lowest points when the game ends.

A meld is three or four of a kind, or three or more cards in a row of the same suit.
On your turn: draw from the deck, or pick up the discard if it completes a meld with your cards.
Lay down melds, sapaw (add a card to any meld on the table), then discard one card.
A card that can be sapaw'd cannot be discarded.
Players with no meld on the table are burned (sunog) and cannot win by count or draw.
With a meld on the table you may call DRAW. Others with a meld choose Laban (fight) or No laban. Lowest points wins; a tie goes to the caller.
You cannot call DRAW on the turn right after someone sapaw'd your meld.

Count win when the deck runs out: 1× stake from each loser.
Tong-its (empty your hand): 2× stake.
Won draw: 3× stake.
Pot: starts at 2× stake and grows by 1× stake every round. Win two rounds in a row to take the pot.

Be the first to play all of your cards.

Suits rank ♣ < ♠ < ♥ < ♦ and 2 is the highest card.
The player with 3♦ starts, and the first play must include it.
Play a single, pair, triple or 5-card poker hand that beats the last play, or pass.
When everyone passes, the last player to play leads anything.

Banker against up to five players. Get a hand total closest to 9. The deck has no J, Q or K.

Ace = 1, other cards = their number, 10 = 0. Only the last digit of the total counts (7 + 5 = 2).
Everyone gets two cards. Tap Draw (Hirit) for one more card, or Stand (Tayo).
8 or 9 with two cards is a natural and stands automatically.
After the players, the banker plays. Each player is compared only with the banker. Ties go to the banker.