Kaiser Card Game - Offline

Kaiser, the card game of the Canadian prairies, the way it's played at kitchen tables from Saskatoon to Brandon and down into North Dakota and Montana: four players, two partnerships, one bid each, and two cards that change everything. Plays offline, any time you've got a few minutes.

Look over your eight cards and make your bid. Win it, name trumps or call no trump, and go after the points. Every trick is worth one, the 5 of hearts is worth five more, and the 3 of spades costs you three. Your computer partner drops the 5 of hearts on your sure tricks, sticks the other side with the 3 of spades, never trumps a trick you've already won, and counts every card.

How it plays
• Four players with a 32-card deck: you and your partner against West and East
• One bid each, 6 to 12, in a suit or no trump. No trump counts double
• The dealer can take the bid by equalling it, and is stuck if everyone passes
• +5 for the 5 of hearts, -3 for the 3 of spades, ten points a hand
• First side to 52 wins. At 45 you have to bid your way out
• A real score pad keeps every hand: the bid, the points and the running totals, with set bids circled
• After every hand, a clear summary shows exactly how the score was worked out

Your table, your house rules
• Ready-made rules: Standard, Saskatchewan, or the 34-card kitty game
• Lowest bid 5, 6 or 7
• The defenders stop scoring at 45 or 47, never, or only a made bid can win
• Dealer stuck, or throw the hand in
• Misdeal on a hand with no ace, no face card and no 5 or 3
• A made no trump moves the game to 62, minus 52 loses, low no trump, and more
• Computer players at Easy, Normal or Smart. Smart counts every card and thinks ahead

Easy on the eyes
Big cards with large corner numbers, the 5 of hearts and 3 of spades marked +5 and -3, large buttons and clear, high-contrast text. Cards you can't play are dimmed, and the game tells you which suit to follow. Turn on four-colour suits if you like clubs green and diamonds blue.

Made to pick up and put down
• Plays offline: at the cabin, at the lake or on a long drive
• Your game saves itself, so you can pick up right where you left off
• No login and no account
• Free to play, with ads. You never need coins to play
• Daily challenge, levels, achievements, and card backs and tables to earn with play coins
• A quick how-to-play guide and the full rules of Kaiser built in

Fair shuffle, fair partners
Every deal is a fair random shuffle, and the computer players only know what a player in their chair could know. They never peek at your cards.

Tell us what to improve
There's a feedback form right in the game. If your table plays Kaiser a different way, send us a note. We read every one.