Play Fifty Five Online
Winning the bid is only the beginning in the Fifty Five card game. Take the hidden kitty, decide which five cards to keep, and choose a trump suit that can support your promise. Fifty Five brings the traditional game to a moonlit conservatory table with two computer opponents. Play a complete race to fifty-five points or twenty original open-hand contract studies, free online with no ads, account or download.
How to play Fifty Five online
- Choose a full match or an open-hand contract study.
- Bid for the kitty, discard five cards and choose trumps if you win the auction.
- Follow the card-order and reneging rules, confirming each selected card.
- Settle all five tricks, then continue toward fifty-five or complete the study's deal-score target.
Controls
Choose a Bid button, Pass or the dealer's Take option. After winning the kitty, tap or click a card and press Discard card; repeat until five cards remain, then choose trumps. During a trick, select a card and confirm with Play card. Arrow keys move focus, Enter or Space selects, and P confirms. Keys 1–9 and 0 select hand positions. A passes, T takes, H hints, U or Ctrl+Z undoes a study, and C continues after a deal. Open Bids & score for the auction, card order and scoring reminder.
A tip before you start
Count the highest-trump bonus when judging a contract. Two tricks are worth ten points, but holding the highest trump in play adds five. That can turn a bid of fifteen from a five-point shortfall into a successful contract. A powerful trump still has to fit a hand that can take the other tricks you need.
Five cards each and a hidden kitty
You face Fern and Clover as three individual players. The dealer distributes five cards to each player and five to the kitty, in packets of two then three. The remaining thirty-two cards stay unused. Deal and play move clockwise, and the dealer rotates after each deal. Rival hands, the unused stock and the kitty before pickup stay hidden in full matches. Each computer makes decisions using its own hand and public information.
Bidding, passing and the dealer's Take
Bidding begins on the dealer's left. The available promises are ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five and sixty. Bid above the current high bid or pass. A player who passes or is outbid cannot return. The dealer alone may Take by matching the current bid. The previous high bidder can then raise or pass, and the dealer can Take again, raise outright or pass. A genuine higher dealer bid ends the auction; so does a Take of sixty. If everyone passes, this table rotates the dealer and redeals without scoring.
Keep five cards, then choose trump
The final bidder privately adds all five kitty cards to their hand, discards exactly five, and then names the trump suit. You can inspect the whole ten-card choice before starting your discards. There is no turned-up trump card and no robbing. The player on the dealer's left leads the first trick, even when someone else won the auction. Each trick winner leads the next.
The unusual card order
The five of trumps is strongest, followed by the trump Jack and the Ace of hearts. The Ace of hearts always belongs to trump, regardless of its printed suit. When another suit is trump, its own Ace comes next, then King and Queen. The remaining red trump cards run from high to low, while black trump numbers run from low to high. Ordinary red suits start King, Queen, Jack and descend; ordinary black suits place Ace after Jack and then rise from two. Bids & score lists every trump in order for the current deal.
Following suit and protecting the top three
On an ordinary-suit lead, you may follow that suit or play any trump, even if you could follow. Without the led suit, any card is legal. On a trump lead, an ordinary trump in your hand requires you to play a trump. The top three have a special privilege: if they are your only trumps and all are higher than the original lead, you may hold them back. A protected trump below the lead must follow. A higher trump played later in the trick does not change that original-lead test. The highest trump wins, or otherwise the highest card of the led suit.
Making the contract and reaching fifty-five
Each trick earns five points. The player who held the highest trump in play receives another five; discarded and undealt cards do not qualify. This table gives no bonus if none of the fifteen playing cards is trump. An ordinary bidder meeting the contract earns their actual points, while a failed bidder loses the amount bid. Other players keep their own tricks and bonus. A bid of sixty requires all five tricks and scores plus or minus sixty. Winning every trick on a lower bid earns thirty. All five tricks finish before a deal is settled. If several players reach fifty-five, the order of their scoring decides who reached it first, with the trump bonus counted when its card was played.
Twenty original contract studies
Studies reveal all three remaining hands from positions reached through legal play. Secure the stated positive deal score against every legal opposing reply. The target includes points from earlier tricks in that deal, and a wrong card can turn a successful bid into a penalty. Your remaining hand grows from two to four cards as the sequence adds consequential choices and longer planning. Two successful hints are available per study. Undo restores your preceding choice and both opponents' replies, without refunding hints.
A declared table and a saved match
This version uses three individual players, the dealer's Take privilege, discarding before choosing trump, and a target of fifty-five. It does not add partnerships, cash stakes or the longer 110 and 220 targets. Full matches resume after reload when local storage is available. Study unlocks, best scores and sound preferences are saved separately; a study restarts on reload. Restart asks before repeating the original deal sequence, while New match starts a fresh one. Artwork and computer errors offer a retry.
Frequently asked questions
How is the Fifty Five card game different from Twenty Five?
Fifty Five adds an auction, a five-card kitty, a contract penalty and a highest-trump bonus. The bidder chooses trumps after discarding, and the final hand is played out before deciding the winner. Twenty Five uses a turned-up trump and races to twenty-five through trick points without this auction.
Can the dealer keep matching my bid?
Yes. When the dealer uses Take, the previous high bidder may raise and the dealer may match again. You may instead pass. The exchange ends on a pass, an outright higher dealer bid, or a dealer Take of sixty.
Who gets the five-point highest-trump bonus?
The original holder of the highest trump among the cards actually played gets it. Cards discarded from the kitty or left in the unused stock do not count. The award is settled after all five tricks, so a lower trump is not prematurely declared highest.
Does sixty mean sixty ordinary trick points?
No. Sixty is a special promise to win all five tricks. Success earns sixty and any lost trick costs sixty. Ordinary trick points and the bonus total at most thirty on a lower bid.
Can I play with friends online?
This page provides two computer opponents and open-hand studies. It does not include online multiplayer. Full-match hands stay hidden; the open hands belong only to the study mode.
Do I need an app or an account?
No. Play on this page using touch, mouse or keyboard controls. Help and Bids & score open separately when you need a reminder, and progress can be saved in your browser.
About Fifty Five
Winning the bid is only the beginning in the Fifty Five card game. Take the hidden kitty, decide which five cards to keep, and choose a trump suit that can support your promise. Fifty Five brings the traditional game to a moonlit conservatory table with two computer opponents. Play a complete race to fifty-five points or twenty original open-hand contract studies, free online with no ads, account or download.
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