Published card games
Tien len
Tien len is a card game. It is played with 2 to 8 players, from age 10 and in about 20 minutes.
- players
- 2–8
- minutes
- 20
- years
- 10+
This game’s rules aren’t on Marquoir yet: keep the ones from the box. Marquoir keeps score, times your games and records them.
The box
- Also known as
- Vietnamese cards · Thirteen · Viet Cong
About the game
Tiến lên (Vietnamese: tiến lên, tiến: advance; lên: to go up, up; lit. 'go forward'; also romanized Tien Len) is a shedding-type card game originating in Vietnam. It may be considered Vietnam's national card game, and is common in communities where Vietnamese migration has occurred. It is also played in the United States, sometimes under the names Viet Cong, VC, Thirteen (which is also the common English name in Australia's Vietnamese migrant community), Killer,
or 2’s.Information from Marquoir’s game database, which cross-checks several open sources. Spotted a mistake? Write to us from the Contact page.