In Texas, Trump is a table game — the four-player, two-team trick-taker that gets played at game nights, card clubs, and around the kitchen table long after the neighbors have gone home. Same Whist-and-Euchre DNA as the rest of the family, but with one signature Texas rule: Player 1 names trump from their first five cards, mid-deal, before seeing the rest of the hand.
Four players · two teams of two · thirteen tricks · first to 7 tricks wins the roundMost trick-taking games deal the whole hand and then set trump. Not this one. Before anyone has their full 13 cards, the player to the dealer's left looks at their first five cards and names a suit as trump. That's a blind bet: you commit to a suit before the rest of your hand arrives. Good calls win rounds; miscalculations let the other team run you over. It rewards judgment, card-watching, and nerve — which is why Texans who grew up on it won't play the tamer versions.
| Players | 4 — you and your partner vs. the other pair; partners sit opposite |
|---|---|
| Deck | Standard 52-card deck, no jokers; Ace high, 2 low |
| Trump | Named by Player 1 from their first five cards; it beats every other suit, even a 2 over an Ace |
| Lead | Dealer leads the first trick; the winner of each trick leads the next |
| Follow suit | Mandatory if you hold a card of the led suit; when void, play anything (including trump) |
| Win | First team to 7 of the 13 tricks wins the round; rotate the deal left |
| Match | First team to win 3 rounds takes the match |
You don't need four people in one room anymore. Sundial runs the real Texas rules in the browser:
All three are partnership trick-takers. Trump's signature is naming trump mid-deal from your first five cards — no bidding, no turned-up card. Euchre uses a reduced deck and a table of potential trumps; Whist merely turns up the last card.
Take 7 or more of the 13 tricks. Because 13 is odd, a round never ends 6–6 — there's always a winning team.
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.
Yes. Host a private room, share the link, and your partner (or all three friends) join from their own devices in a tap.
No. Sundial keeps it like the card table: no sign-up, no profiles, just link or room code in and play.