Seep is a fishing-style card game: use the cards in your hand to catch cards off the table and collect the points. Play 1 vs 1, or 2 vs 2 with a partner you share a score with. All 100 points live in the spades, the four aces, and the 10 of Diamonds — and clearing the whole table in one catch (a "sweep", or seep) banks a 50-point bonus. Most points wins.
Seep is all about fishing cards off the table. The table holds face-up cards, and you use the cards in your hand to "catch" them — the player or side that catches the most points wins. All 100 points in the deck live in just a handful of cards (the spades, the four aces, and the 10 of Diamonds); every other card is simply a tool for grabbing them. Clear the entire table in a single catch — a "sweep", or seep — and you bank a 50-point bonus on top.
It’s an ordinary 52-card deck, and two things matter about every card. First, its number, used to catch other cards: an Ace counts as 1, the number cards count their pips, and the Jack, Queen and King count 11, 12 and 13. Second, whether it’s worth points — and most cards are worth nothing at all.
Every spade is worth its number — the Ace of Spades is 1 point, on up to the King of Spades at 13.
The other three aces (♦ ♣ ♥) are worth 1 point each.
The 10 of Diamonds is worth 6 points.
Everything else scores zero — a plain 8 or a plain Queen is worth nothing. That makes exactly 100 points spread across the deck.
Remember the one thing that matters: spades and the 10 of Diamonds are the cards worth fighting for. Everything else is just a tool to grab them.
At the start of every round, one player is chosen to go first — the caller. The caller sets the round in motion, then play moves around the table one card at a time.
Play 1 vs 1 against a single opponent, or 2 vs 2 with a partner sitting opposite — partners share one score, so you’re always working together.
The caller picks a number from 9 to 13. This is the "call" (or bid) for the round.
The caller then plays their first card, which must either catch, build a house of, or throw down a card of that exact number.
Everyone is dealt their hand and play passes around the table, one card per turn, until every hand is empty.
On every turn you take exactly one card from your hand and do one of three things with it — catch, build, or throw.
Catch (the main move): play a card to grab table cards that add up to the same number. If a 3, a 4 and a 7 are on the table and you play a 7, you can take the loose 7 — or take the 3 + 4, since they add up to 7.
One card can catch several groups at once. With a 6, 7, 5 and 8 on the table, playing a King (13) scoops all four: 6 + 7 = 13 and 5 + 8 = 13.
You must catch if a catch is available — you’re never allowed to throw a card away when something on the table can be caught.
Throw (also called trailing): if nothing can be caught, place your card face-up on the table as a loose card for someone to catch on a later turn.
Build a house: instead of catching now, stack cards into a pile you reserve to catch on a later turn (see the next section).
A house is a pile of cards on the table that you reserve to catch on a later turn — the move that makes Seep a game of strategy. Lay a 4 on a loose 5 and you’ve built a house worth 9 (4 + 5); later, when you play any 9 from your hand, you catch the whole house. Build a house to lock in points and block your opponent: a house worth 9 can only be taken by a 9, so if you’re holding the 9s it’s as good as yours.
A house must be worth 9, 10, 11, 12 or 13 — nothing lower.
You must keep a matching card in your hand to collect a house you build — build a house of 9 and you need a 9 in hand to grab it later.
Only two houses can sit on the table at once.
A house that has been stacked twice, or any house worth 13, becomes locked — no one can change it any more; it can only be caught.
If a single catch clears the table completely empty, that’s a sweep — also called a seep — and it’s worth a 50-point bonus, the most exciting move in the game. A few conditions keep it in check:
You can earn the sweep bonus twice in a round — but a third sweep cancels all of your sweep bonuses, so don’t overdo it.
You can’t score a sweep on the very last card of the round.
If you earn a sweep bonus, you also need to have caught at least 20 points that round for it to count in your favour. With no sweep, there’s no minimum — any points are fine.
When everyone’s hand is empty, the round ends and you tally your points.
Add up the point cards in your pile — your spades, your aces and the 10 of Diamonds. Plain cards count for nothing.
Add 50 for each sweep you scored (subject to the sweep rules above).
Any cards still loose on the table go to whoever made the last catch of the round.
How long a match runs depends on the mode you pick, but your scores always add up across the rounds.
Quick is a single round — the higher score when it ends takes it.
Classic runs up to five rounds, with scores carried across them.
Baazi has no fixed length and keeps going round after round.
In Classic and Baazi, the moment you pull 100 points ahead of your opponent you win instantly.
You also take it if you clear a round so cleanly that your opponent doesn’t qualify.
Otherwise, whoever has the most points when the match ends wins.
Go for the spades and the 10 of Diamonds — they’re the points. Don’t waste turns on cards worth nothing when a point card is there to grab.
Don’t overpay: using a King just to catch one lonely King is a waste — try to scoop several cards at once instead.
Build houses when you’re holding the matching card — it locks in points and frustrates your opponent.
Chase the 50-point sweep, but stop before a third one, since it cancels them all.
In 2 vs 2, play as a team — your partner’s catches help you too, so set each other up instead of competing.
Now that you know the rules, jump into a live table and put them to work.