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YOUR GUIDE TO THIS VERSION

Know your table.

This guide’s sequence convention: A-2-3 highest, then A-K-Q. Some tables reverse these two. For wilds, rank aces high when identifying a highest or lowest printed card. Natural and wild-assisted equal hands have no automatic priority.

The rules that matter.

• Red means hearts/diamonds; black means clubs/spades.
• House timing: all players inspect after the deal; immediately remove dead one-colour hands. Everyone remaining plays seen.
• If every hand is dead, carry the practice pot forward and redeal; if only one survives, that player wins.

From first card to final reveal.

1. Before the first card. Use a 52-card pack without printed jokers. Pick a dealer, seat everyone and read the deck note below. Use practice counters.

   This version supports 2–16 players. The deck note reserves any extra indicators or replacements. Smaller groups generally move faster.

2. Agree the table. Set a base boot, chip ceiling and stopping point. Agree sequence order and tie handling. Read this game’s twist aloud.

   Deal Different uses the stated house rules. Sequence orders and tie conventions vary, so settle them before dealing.

3. Build the pot. Collect one agreed boot from each player, shuffle thoroughly and offer a cut.

   The boot is the opening contribution. Later blind and seen contributions are handled differently; they are not Poker calls.

4. Deal privately. Deal clockwise, one card at a time, until each player has three face-down cards. Keep the undealt packet separate.

   Do not add burn cards or replacements; this capacity calculation reserves only the cards described in the deck note.

5. Inspect every colour pattern. All players look. A hand with three cards of one colour is dead and packs; otherwise its lone odd-colour card is wild.

   This guide makes the inspection simultaneous before betting so dead hands never contribute later. This is an explicit host timing choice.

6. Begin seen play. Resolve the all-dead or one-survivor cases first. Otherwise take clockwise seen turns beginning left of the dealer.

   No blind play after compulsory inspection. Use the agreed seen stake structure and optional eligible sideshows.

7. Reach a comparison. If everyone but one packs, stop: that player takes the pot. With two left, an eligible player may pay for a show.

   Blind show costs one current stake; seen-versus-seen costs two. A seen player cannot demand a show against a blind player. Optional sideshows are covered in Learn Teen Patti. A cap-triggered group reveal is a separately agreed house rule.

8. Read, award, reset. Reveal eligible hands and apply this variation’s rule. Resolve ties using the agreed convention, award the pot and move the deal clockwise.

   Guide convention: at a paid two-player show, an exact tie loses for the requesting player. At an agreed forced group reveal, split ties. No suit is intrinsically stronger.

Where these rules come from.

Published implementation-specific format. House conventions below make this physical-table guide explicit; no claim of original authorship. Explanatory presentation and examples by Deal Different.

Curated by Maanas Chopra · reviewed October 2026 · session times are estimates