56 Card Game Online

56 is a card game that requires strategy, memory power, teamwork and a bit of luck. Play it for free!

Strategy game

4, 6 or 8 players

Play with BOTs

A live table with BOT players in three of the four seats

Never short of a player: trained BOTs take any empty seat, bid and play the way the group does

Ask the BOT

The BOT's suggestion tip over the bidding keyboard

What does that bid mean? Why did it play that? What should I bid? — the BOT explains

Detailed match logs & replays

The written match log: every bid, trick and hand

The same match replayed on the board, card by card

Every bid, every trick and every hand — read it as a table, or watch it replay on the board

Private groups

Your own group for your own friends — an invite link, or you add them yourself

Any device

The same table on a phone, held sideways

Phone, tablet or computer — the same table in any browser, nothing to install

Watch ongoing games

About 56

56 is a popular card game played in India, especially in the southern state of Kerala, and wherever people from there have settled. Two teams bid for the right to name trumps, then play eight tricks a hand; the game takes its name from the 56 points on the table. It rewards strategy, memory, teamwork — and a little luck.

This site is the new home of 56cardgameonline.com: free to play, with tables for 4, 6 or 8 players, private groups for your own circle, BOTs that take the empty seats and can explain their bids, written match logs and board replays of every finished match, and tables you can watch live.

New here? The site is in a closed trial. Players from the old site sign in with the same email address and password; registration for everyone else opens when the trial ends.