Omi
You & NimalUs 0
Chamari & RuwanThem 0
Trumps
Tricks 5 wins
Us
Them

How to play Omi

Omi is a Sri Lankan trick-taking game for four players in two teams. Your partner sits opposite you, and the players on your left and right play against you.

The cards

32 cards: A K Q J 10 9 8 7 in each suit, aces high. Dealing and play go anticlockwise, so the next player is always the one on your right.

Choosing trumps

The dealer gives everyone four cards. The player on the dealer's right looks at those four and names the trump suit. Then everyone gets four more.

Playing a hand

The player who chose trumps leads the first trick. Follow suit if you can. If you can't, play any card: a trump to try to win the trick, or something else to throw away. The highest trump wins the trick. If nobody played a trump, the highest card of the suit led wins. The winner leads the next trick.

Scoring

5 to 7 tricks, and your team chose trumps1 token
5 to 7 tricks, and the other team chose trumps2 tokens
All 8 tricks, called Kapothi3 tokens
4 tricks eachNo tokens. The next team to win a hand takes 1 extra, or more if ties repeat.

Each team starts with ten token cards, the 2 to 6 of two suits. Tokens you win come out of the other team's supply, and the first team to win 10 takes the game. The deal passes to the right after every hand.

Optional rule

With Kapothi must be called switched on in Settings, all eight tricks earn 3 tokens only if your team announces it before the seventh trick. If you announce it and then lose either of the last two tricks, the other team takes 4 tokens.

Controls

Click a card to play it. On a touch screen, tap a card to raise it and tap it again to play. With a keyboard, use ← → to pick a card and Enter to play it. L shows the last trick and H gives a hint.

Settings

Game speed
Opponents

Your computer partner always plays at full strength.

Score sheet

HandTrumpsTricksTokensScore

No hands finished yet. Tricks and scores read as your team against theirs.

Last trick

Start a new game?

The current score will be cleared.

Game over

The hand, trick by trick

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      If someone drops out, the computer plays for them until they come back. Anyone else with the link can take a computer's seat.