Play Call Break online free. Call 1 to 13 tricks, play them out with spades always trump, and score your call if you make it, plus 0.1 for each extra trick, or lose your call if you fall short. Play against bots that follow the strict play rules, or with friends in a private room.
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This is Call Break online, free in your browser on a phone or a computer: tap Play and you are dealt 13 cards against three bots straight away, or open a private room and play with friends. Each player calls 1 to 13 tricks, spades are always trump, and you must beat the trick whenever you can. There is nothing to download and no account to make. Call Break is also known as tash wala game, tash ka game, lakdi and call bridge.
Four players call, play 13 tricks, and each writes down a score. Here the calls add up to 12, and the tricks are shared out like this:
| Player | Call | Tricks won | Round score |
|---|---|---|---|
| You | 4 | 5 | 4.1 |
| Left | 3 | 2 | −3 |
| Across | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Right | 3 | 4 | 3.1 |
You and Right made your calls with a trick to spare, and each spare trick is worth a tenth. Across made 2 exactly. Left was one short and loses all three. That is the whole scoring system:
Scores carry over from round to round. After the fifth round the highest total wins the match, and if the lead is tied the table plays sudden-death rounds until one player is ahead. The Call Break scoring guide has more examples and a score calculator for paper games.
All 52 cards are dealt, 13 to each of the four players. Aces are high. Every player plays alone, so the person across from you is a rival, not a partner. The deal moves one seat clockwise each round.
Starting with the player on the dealer's left and going clockwise, each player calls the number of tricks they will win, from 1 to 13. The dealer calls last. Every call is shown to the table the moment it is made, so later callers can read the room. There is no zero call: everyone has to fight for at least one trick.
The player on the dealer's left leads the first trick with any card, spades included. After that, the winner of each trick leads the next. When it is your turn, the strict rules decide what you may play:
The highest spade wins the trick. If nobody played a spade, the highest card of the led suit wins. Because the rules so often leave only one legal card, the game plays that card for you after a short highlight, so the table never stalls.
There is no auction for trump and no trump that changes from hand to hand. Every spade beats every heart, diamond and club, every round, and spades may be led from the very first trick. Counting the thirteen spades as they fall is the first habit worth building.
Not every table plays the same way. The Call Bridge rules on pagat.com, which lists the game as popular in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, differ from ours in three places:
The Call Break variants page lists the rest, like redealing when someone has no spades.
Solo games start instantly: three bots fill the other seats, so you never wait for a fourth player. Pick a difficulty from Easy to Expert. The bots play by the same strict rules you do, so they are good practice for a real table. Sign in only if you want your scores to follow you to another device.
To play Call Break online with friends, create a private room and share its link or code, on WhatsApp or anywhere else. Friends who tap the link land in your room without signing up. The host can add a password, add bots to any empty seat, and start the match once the table is ready. Chat and emoji reactions keep the table talking, and when the match ends you can call for a rematch with the same seats. Every call and card is checked on the server, and nobody sees a hand but its owner. Read more about Call Break multiplayer with friends.
The Call Break strategy guide goes deeper, from counting spades to playing the five-round score sheet.
Call Break goes by several names. In Hindi, tash (taash) is simply the word for playing cards, so a tash wala game or tash ka game means a card game, and Call Break is one of them. If that is what you came looking for, this is a tash game you can play online for free.
Call Bridge is the same game under its other common English name. Tables that use it sometimes differ on small details, such as a minimum call of 2; this table plays a minimum call of 1 with the strict beat, trump and overtrump rules. You will also hear it called Lakadi (also written lakdi), and because the name is mostly spoken, people write it many ways: Call Brake, callbark, collbreak and other spellings all mean this game.
Want every rule in one place? Read the Call Break rules and how to play, then come back and deal.