Jhyap

Jhyap, also known as Dhumbal, is a card game played by Nepalese and many others everywhere around the world.^[1]

Gameplay

The dealer deals 5 cards to each player anti-clockwise. The minimum number of players required is 2 and maximum is 5, but sometimes 6 or 7 players can also play, with certain house rules. The role of dealer is taken in anti-clockwise direction.

The goal is to reduce the total count in the hand to 5 or less. Ace is one, two is two, etc., and all cards over 10 is counted 10. The hand-count can be lessened by lessening the number of cards, by discarding the following sequence cards: pairs, trips, quads and straight flushes of 3 or more cards. If no sequence cards are in the hand, the player can discard any one card.

After the sequence cards are discarded, the player withdraws a card from the deck, or from the last discarded card. The player must withdraw one and only one card. In his turn, the player cannot pass the turn. i.e., he must discard card(s) or declare a Jhyap. This continues until a player has a hand-count of 5 or less, then he declares a jhyap and if no one counter jhyaps, gets x or no score for that hand. All other players gets score of their hand-count. If no cards are left in the deck, then there is no Jhyap and everyone gets a score of their hand-count.

If the player who Jhyapped is counter-jhyapped, 25 points is added to his count and added to the game score. i.e., if he has a count of 3 when he jhaypped, and someone else counter jhyapped him with 3 or less, he gets 28 for that hand.

The cards are dealt again for several hands, until all players get out by scoring 100 points. The player who stands until the last wins the game of jhyap. i.e., the only player who does not reach 100 wins.

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Availability

This game is available as an android game app developed by Alankar Atreya as well as in a web flavour by bhoos.com bhoos.com.

See also

• Yaniv (card game), a similar game from Israel

References