Marriage Card Game Calculator

About the Marriage card game calculator

Marriage (म्यारेज) is the card game of Dashain and Tihar gatherings — three full decks, 21 cards each, and at the end of every round a maal count that nobody wants to argue out on paper. This calculator keeps the score for the whole table: enter each player's maal points, mark who is Seen and who is Unseen, note dublees and fouls, and the round is settled instantly. Running totals, per-round history and a final settle-up follow automatically, and the game is saved on your device so you can put the phone down between deals.

How a round is scored

When the round ends, every player counts the maal points in their hand from the chart below. Each player then settles the maal difference against every other player — if you hold 15 more maal points than another player, they pay you those 15 points at your table's rate. On top of that, the player who ended the round earns a flat bonus from every opponent: 3 points from players who looked at their cards, and 10 points from opponents who played Unseen.

Seen vs Unseen

Before looking at the deal, each player chooses to play Seen or Unseen. Playing blind is harder, so most houses reward it: by default an Unseen player pays only half on maal differences, while a Seen player pays in full (and once you look, you are Seen for the rest of the round). The trade-off is the winner bonus — Unseen opponents pay the round winner more. Every one of these values is editable at game setup, because house rules differ from family to family. In the calculator each new round starts with all players marked Seen, so only the blind players need switching over.

Dublees and fouls

A dublee is a pair of identical cards. If the round ends with a player laying down eight dublees instead of the usual sets, each opponent pays that player a flat dublee-win bonus (5 points by default). A foul — a wrongly declared or invalid show — is penalised the other way: the fouling player pays a flat penalty (15 points by default) to whoever ended the round.

The standard maal point chart

Each maal card counts towards only one item: a marriage swallows its tiplu, poplu and jhiplu, and a tunnela swallows its three identical cards. The calculator shows this chart at the table, and all the point values can be edited to match your house chart.

Rounds, history and settlement

Each saved round is kept in the history with the winner, every player's maal, seen status and net result, so a disputed count can always be checked back. Standings show wins, fouls, maal totals and net points (or rupees) across the game, and the settle-up list converts those net balances into the fewest payments that clear the table. The whole game lives in your browser's local storage on this device — nothing is uploaded, and finished games can be resumed or deleted from the saved-games list. For 2 to 7 players, on any phone or laptop.