Short, direct answers to the questions everyone asks about Trump — the four-player partnership trick-taking game. If you don't see yours here, the full rules cover everything in detail.
Four players · two teams of two · thirteen tricks · first to 7 tricks wins the roundExactly four — two teams of two. Your partner sits directly across from you, and you never see each other's hands.
The trump suit outranks every other suit for the round. A 2 of trump beats an Ace of any non-trump suit. Trump only matters once it's named (before the first trick).
Player 1 — the player to the dealer's left — looks at their first five cards and names one of the four suits as trump. They can't pass, and they can't change it after seeing the rest of their hand.
Yes. If you hold a card of the led suit, you must play one. If you're void in the led suit, you may play anything — including trump.
Seven. There are 13 tricks in a round, so 7 or more wins it. Because 13 is odd, a round can never tie 6–6.
Yes — if it's trump. A 2 of trump beats an Ace of any other suit. That's the whole point of naming trump well.
You're "void." You may play any card from your hand — a trump to try to win the trick, or a discard to save a card for later.
The dealer leads the first trick of the round. After that, the winner of each trick leads the next one.
A round is all 13 tricks; the team with 7 or more wins it. A match goes to the first team to win 3 rounds.
The one you actually hold. Your first five cards decide the whole round, so name your strongest suit there — ideally two or three cards, especially with an honor.
No. Trump is limited — 13 in the whole deck — and trumping your partner's winning trick wastes it. Save trump for tricks the opponents are otherwise winning.
Yes. Sundial is a free browser game: play against three bots in one tap, hot-seat with friends on one device, or host a private room and share a link to play Trump together online.
No. Like the card table, there's no sign-up — just tap to play solo, or use the room code and link to join friends.
Yes. Host a private room, share the link, and your partner (or all three friends) join from their own devices in a tap.
No. This is the classic four-player partnership game, related to Whist and Euchre. It's different from Top Trumps (the picture-card game) and from invented "Trumps" variants with hidden declarations.