Payas Omi
Us0
Them0
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North 0
West 0
0 tricks
East 0
You 0
Round Over
Game Over!
Choose Trump Suit
You are the Trump Maker — pick a suit from your 4 cards
Appearance
Dark Mode
Game Rules
Winning Tokens
First team to collect this many tokens wins
Scoring
5–7 tricks = 1 token · All 8 (Kapothi) = 2 tokens · 4–4 Draw = carry-over
Players
Your Name
AI Difficulty
Turn Timer
Seconds per turn (0 = off)
Data
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Sri Lankan card game · v1.0
About the Game

Omi is Sri Lanka's most popular partnership trick-taking card game. 4 players in 2 teams (North–South vs East–West) use a 32-card deck (A K Q J 10 9 8 7) and play 8 tricks per round. The Trump Maker (player to the dealer's right) names the trump suit after seeing their first 4 cards.

Payas Omi is an open-source browser implementation — no server, no install required.

How to Play

1. Deal (Phase 1) — Each player receives 4 cards. The Trump Maker (player to dealer's right) examines their cards.

2. Choose Trump — The Trump Maker names a trump suit. If that's you, a panel appears to let you pick.

3. Deal (Phase 2) — Each player receives 4 more cards (8 total). The Trump Maker leads the first trick.

4. Play — Follow the led suit if possible. Highest trump wins; otherwise highest card of the led suit wins. Play 8 tricks.

5. Score Tokens — Win 5–7 tricks → 1 token. Win all 8 (Kapothi) → 2 tokens. 4–4 draw → no tokens (next winner gets a bonus token). Ambaya: trump team fails to win 5 tricks.

6. Win — First team to reach the token target wins the game.

Developer
Saman Wijesinghe
Developer · Open Source
MIT License

Payas Omi is released under the MIT License. You are free to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the software, provided the original copyright notice is included.

MIT License Copyright (c) 2025 Saman Wijesinghe Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.