Teen Patti Variations Explained: Muflis, AK47, Joker, 999 and More

Rules for each variation differ between apps and home games, especially for 999 and how wild cards break ties. Read the table's rules screen before betting.

Muflis turns the ranking upside down: High Card beats Pair, Pair beats Color, and so on up to Trail, which becomes the worst hand. Within High Card, the lowest cards win, so a mixed-suit 5-3-2 is about as good as it gets. The betting is unchanged. The main trap is habit: players used to classic rules instinctively like a pair or a sequence, and in Muflis those are losing hands. See our full Muflis rules and strategy guide for the complete ranking table.

In AK47, every Ace, King, 4 and 7 is a wild card that can stand in for any card. Sixteen of the 52 cards are wild, so most hands contain at least one, and Trails, Pure Sequences and Sequences appear many times more often than in classic play. A hand with two wild cards is automatically at least a Trail. Adjust your expectations: a natural pair with no wild card, fine in classic Teen Patti, is a weak hand here. See our full AK47 rules and computed odds for the exact percentages.

In the standard Joker variation, a card is turned face up after the deal and every card of that rank becomes wild for the hand. There are only three other cards of that rank, so knowing whether you hold one is the whole game: with a joker, your hand is at least a pair; without one, it's classic Teen Patti against opponents who might have one.

Lowest Joker and Highest Joker give every player a wild card: the lowest-ranked (or highest-ranked) card in each player's own hand. Since everyone has one, very strong hands are normal, and ties between Trails are common. Expect to need a high Trail or a Pure Sequence to be confident. See our full Joker rules guide, which also covers a genuine rank-vs-suit rule conflict between apps.

In 999, the usual hand rankings don't apply. Each card has a digit value, commonly Ace as 1, number cards at face value, and 10s and face cards as 0. Players arrange their three cards as a three-digit number, and the number closest to 999 wins, so 9-9-9 is the best possible hand. Nines are the cards you want, and 10s and face cards are the worst. Apps differ on the exact values, so check before you play. See our full 999 rules guide for a trap worth knowing: a Trail isn't automatically a good hand here.

Each player is dealt four cards and keeps the best three-card combination. With four cards, you have four possible three-card hands to choose from, so everyone's hand is stronger than in classic play. A hand that would be above average in classic Teen Patti, such as a low pair, is only middling here. See our full Best of Four rules guide for more.

Start with classic rules until the hand rankings and blind/seen betting feel automatic, then try Muflis, which only reverses the rankings. Wild-card games are faster and more chaotic, and the odds shift a lot, so they're easier to lose chips in without noticing why. Our free practice table uses classic rules.