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King
Avoid capturing the King of Hearts — the most dreaded card at many tables.
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Lórum · Lóra · Filky · Kačaba
Lorum — a traditional card game, now online.
Lorum is a classic European trick-taking card game with many regional and family variations. Now you can play it online with friends.
What is Lorum?
Lorum is a compendium card game for four players: a match is a sequence of short contracts, not a single fixed deal.
In most rounds you avoid penalty cards and dangerous tricks. In others the aim flips, and you suddenly want the cards you were dodging.
Families and regions keep their own lists, scoring, and house rules. We built the online game to accommodate that, rather than freeze one “official” version.
Learn the RulesPlay with friends, wherever you are.
Open the game in your browser, create a room, and share a join code or link.
You do not need an account to start. Wait for friends, or fill empty seats with computer opponents.
Choose the rule set that matches the table you know, then deal.
Not everyone plays Lorum the same way.
Players have always taught the game this way — it is not a problem to paper over.
Some players change the rounds, the scoring, or add a single special rule. Others switched from German-suited William Tell cards to French faces.
There is no one “correct” way to play Lorum. The goal here is to make it possible to play Lorum the way you like to play it.
Explore VariationsDifferent rounds
A match moves through contracts with different aims. A few you will recognise:
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Blind King
Chaos face-down: cards stay hidden, and the Hearts King is still the danger.
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5th Trick
Timing matters: the fifth trick is the one you do not want.
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Acorn Jack
One card decides the deal: keep the Acorn Jack — or Jack of Clubs — off your tricks.
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Without Suit
Suits stop mattering: play the next rank, wherever it sits.
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Fast Train
Cards add to a running total. Crossing 25, 50, 75, or 100 is what stings.
More about this roundPlay in your language.
We are building the game and this website for players in many countries. We are working on more translations.
If you see errors or do not see your language, please let us know.
Some languages we are working on:
English · Čeština · Magyar · Deutsch · Srpski · Français
Lorum on your phone.
We plan native iOS and Android apps. Until then, play in the browser on your phone: add it to your home screen after one visit, and local play can work offline.
iOS and Android — coming soon
A game with a history.
Lorum — also written Lórum — is an old Central European compendium game. Hungarian sources recorded it by the early twentieth century, and people still play it today. Related tables use names such as Lóra, Filky, Kačaba, and Lora. Families change the contracts; they keep the idea of a changing list of mini-games.
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