29 Card Game FAQ

Yes. 29 Card Game is free on Android, Windows and Linux, and free to play in your browser. There is nothing to buy.

Yes. Open 29.sadid.dev/play and the game loads right in the page: no download, no sign-up. In the browser you play with your bot partner against two bots, with no ads.

Yes. The Android, Windows and Linux apps need no internet to play. The bots run on your device, so you can play on a bus, a plane or anywhere with no signal.

Yes, on the same Wi-Fi. In the apps, one player hosts a game and 1 to 3 friends join, phones and PCs together. Bots take any empty seats. Playing with friends over the internet is not available yet.

Twenty-Nine is played by four players in two teams of two, partners sitting opposite each other. In the game you can play alone with three bots, or with up to three friends on your Wi-Fi.

Yes. 29 Card Game is on the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 and 11, free and with no ads at all. See 29 Card Game for Windows PC. On Linux, it is on the Snap Store (29 for Linux).

Not as an app yet. On an iPhone, iPad or Mac you can play in the browser instead: open 29.sadid.dev/play and turn your phone sideways.

On Android, ads appear only between deals, never during a hand, and you can watch one ad for 30 minutes without ads. The Windows and Linux apps and the web version have no ads.

Yes. The whole game, its tutorial and its rulebook are in English and বাংলা, and you can switch at any time, with Bangla numerals if you like. The rules are also on this site in Bangla.

By default the game plays the Bangladesh rules: counter-clockwise, the bidding duel with Ditto, bids from 16 to 28, the hidden trump, Show Trump, the Pair, Double and Redouble, the seventh card and the single hand. You can switch to the Standard rules or set every rule yourself in Custom. Read the full rules of 29.

There are three levels. Easy forgets earlier tricks; Normal and Hard remember every card played and who is out of which suit, and they bid and double using rules tuned on many thousands of simulated deals. See 29 strategy for what they do.

Yes. Leave in the middle of a match and the apps resume it where you left off. Your stats are kept too.

The cards hold 28 points. One popular explanation is that against the lowest bid of 16, the other team needs 13 to beat it, and 16 + 13 = 29. Some groups also give an extra point for the last trick, which makes 29 in all.

Read the rules (it takes about eight minutes), then play: the game has a step-by-step tutorial and the full rulebook under "How to play", and it only lets you make legal moves, so you learn as you go.