31
Thirty-one is a simple card game where players have a three card hand and the aim is to collect cards in a single suit worth 31 points or as near as possible to that total.
BGA implementation includes two similar games called as Thirty-one. In Schwimmen (or Schnautz), players exchange a card or three cards with the central face-up cards. In Blitz (or Scat), players draw a card from the deck or the discard pile and then discard a card.
Number of players: 2 - 8
Game duration: 8 mn
Complexity: 1 / 5
Play 31 and 846 other games online.
No download necessary - play directly from your web browser.
With your friends and thousands of players from the whole world.
Free.
Play 31 and 846 other games online.
No download necessary - play directly from your web browser.
With your friends and thousands of players from the whole world.
Free.
Rules summary
Objective
Score the most points to avoid losing lives.
Game play
Select 1 action each turn:
- Swap 1 card in hand for 1 face-up card.
- Swap all cards in hand for all the face-up cards.
- Pass for the remainder of the round and keep the cards you have.
Scoring
Same Suit
- 2 or 3 cards.
- Add the values:
Rank A K Q J 10 9…2 Value 11 10 9…2
Same Value
- Must be 3 cards.
- Always scores 30.5.
Turn end
A player loses a life with:
- < 21 points, or
- ≥ 21 points & lowest or tied lowest score.
Options
- A commerce game using a piquet pack.
- A draw and discard game using a standard deck.
- Table creator can customize variant options.
- May exchange 1 or 3 cards with face-up cards.
- If all players consecutively pass, all face-up cards are replaced.
- Draw from the deck or discard pile, then discard.
- Cannot discard the same card taken from the discard pile.
- Three of a kind: 30.5 points.
- 3×A: 32 points.
- Three of a kind: 30.5 points.
- Dealer may exchange their hand with 3 cards from the deck before play begins.
- Draw and discard variant: exchanged cards are shuffled into the deck.
- Commerce variant: exchanged cards are used as the initial face-up cards.
- Suit (for regular hands) or the rank (for threes of a kind) breaks hand value ties.
- Round end by closing or 31: player with the lowest hand value loses a life.
- Round end by Fire: all players except the winner lose a life.
- Tie with the round closer: closer wins the tiebreak.
- Closer's score is the sole lowest: loses 1 more life.
- Round end: players with ≤ 20 points or lowest score > 20 lose 1 life (except the winner).
- Non-dealers cannot close the round during their 1st turn.
