Guandan Rule Learn Guandan the way it is actually played.
Guandan (掼蛋) is a two-deck, four-player partnership card game from China now spreading worldwide. This is the whole rule set — combos, bombs, the wild rank card and the regional variants — broken into pages you can read one at a time.
The rule book, in four parts
How to Play
Deal, turn order, beating a hand, passing, and how a round ends — the full loop.
02Hands & Ranking
Every combo from a single card up to the four-joker royal bomb, with the cards shown.
03The Rank Card
The number your team plays for, and the two hearts that turn wild.
04Regional Variants
National, Huai’an and Nanjing — how the same game changes town to town.
New here? Take the tutorial
Five short lessons that build on each other — from your first dealt hand to playing for your partner.
Your first hand of Guandan
Four players, two decks, one partner sitting across from you. Here is what happens the moment the cards are dealt.
Reading the seven combos
Before you can beat a hand you have to name it. Here are the seven legal shapes and the one rule that ties them together.
Bombs, and the one that beats everything
Bombs ignore the shape on the table. Learn the ladder from four-of-a-kind up to the four jokers that nothing can top.