Questions and answers

Piratbridge is a Danish trick-taking game for 3–6 players, where each player bids exactly how many tricks they will take in the round.

Make your bid and you score points. Take too few or too many tricks and you lose points. The player with the most points after the last round wins.

In Denmark, Piratbridge is also known as Tændstik ("Matchstick").

Piratbridge is a card game for 3, 4, 5 or 6 players.

When you play against the computer, you choose how many of you sit at the table.

Yes. The rules are quick to learn, and everyone plays in every single round, so nobody sits out.

You can play with an ordinary deck of cards at the table or online at piratbridge.dk, even when you're not in the same place.

Yes, playing Piratbridge on piratbridge.dk is free. You just need to sign up.

Yes, Piratbridge runs right in the browser on phones, tablets and computers. There's nothing to install.

Yes, you can play against the computer whenever you like.

In Training you can also practice bidding, trumps, one-card rounds and other situations with short exercises.

Learn to count the tricks your hand can't avoid, and bid the number you're most likely to take.

We've collected the rules of thumb for bidding, trumps, one-card rounds, voids and fight and creeper rounds, and you can practice them in Training.

Create a game under Multiplayer and send the invite link to your friends, or invite the people you're friends with on the site.

Your friends can also type in the lobby's 6-character code. Multiplayer counts in your stats, but not in your rank.

In Ranked you play online for rank points. Your placing in the game moves your rank, and you can climb towards the top of the leaderboards.

Make a bid of 1 or more tricks and you get 10 points plus 1 point per trick.

Bid 0 and take 0 tricks and you get 5 points. Miss your bid and you lose 1 point for every trick you're off, whether too few or too many.

There are twice as many rounds as cards dealt in the first round. With 8 cards there are 16 rounds.

The number of cards drops by one each round down to 1, the 1-card round is played twice, and then it climbs back up to the start.

After each deal, the top card of the remaining deck is turned over, and its suit is trump for the round.

The highest trump wins the trick. If there is no trump in the trick, the highest card in the suit that started wins.

Yes, if you have a card in the suit that started the trick, you must play that suit.

If you have no cards in that suit, you may play any card, including trump.

In the two rounds with only 1 card, you see everyone else's card, but not your own.

You bid 0 or 1 based on what you can see, and then the trick is settled right away.

When everyone has bid, the total of the bids is compared with the number of tricks in the round.

If the total is higher, it's a fight for the tricks. If it's lower, it's a creeper. Either way, at least one player has to miss their bid.

You must be at least 15 years old to sign up for Piratbridge.

Piratbridge was made by Oliver, who learned the game from a partner's family. You can write to hello@piratbridge.dk.