A free browser version of Sevens — the game also called Satti Lagana, Lal Satti, Fan Tan, Parliament and Card Dominoes.
badamsatti.com exists to do one thing well: let you play a proper game of Sevens in about five minutes, on whatever device is already in your hand, without an account, a download, or a countdown timer nagging you to buy something.
Sevens is one of those games that almost everyone in South Asia has played at a family gathering, on a train, or during a power cut — and almost nobody has written down properly. Ask five people for the rules and you will get five answers: some deal the whole deck, some allow a pass only when you are genuinely stuck, some let you block deliberately, some score the ace high and some score it low.
Most existing online versions bury the game under sign-up walls, ask for permissions a card game has no business wanting, or need an app install for something that is fundamentally fifty-two cards and a table. This site is the opposite of that: the game loads, you play, you close the tab. The rules page then writes down a single, clear, playable version — and is honest about which parts are house variations rather than pretending one version is universal.
You take one seat at a four-player table. The other three — Leo, Maya and Nina — are computer opponents. The full deck is dealt out, whoever holds the seven of hearts opens the table automatically, and play passes around the table from there. You build each suit outward from its seven, and the first player to empty their hand wins the round.
A match runs three, five or seven rounds, your choice before you start. Cards left in your hand at the end of a round count against you at face value, and the lowest total across the whole match wins. There is a full walkthrough on the scoring page.
The three opponents are not random card-throwers, and they are not cheating either. They cannot see your hand. Each one evaluates the legal moves actually available to it and scores them on a handful of competing considerations: how close a card is to unblocking a suit, how many of its own cards a play would free up, whether holding a card would strangle the table, and how badly it wants to avoid being left with high-value cards when someone else goes out.
The practical effect is that they play a recognisably human game — they will sit on a seven to keep you stuck, and they will dump a king when the round is clearly lost. They are beatable, which is the point. An opponent that never errs is not fun to play against.
Hosting and the domain cost money, so the site carries advertising. Ads are kept out of the playing area — you will not find one between you and a card you are trying to play, and there are no interstitials that block a round in progress. If you would rather not see personalised ads, you can decline consent when asked and the game plays identically.
The rules written up here are one common version of a game with genuine regional variation. If your family plays it differently and you think the difference is worth documenting, that is genuinely useful to hear — the variations page exists precisely for that. Bug reports and corrections are welcome through the contact page.
That is the whole pitch. The game is one click away.
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