Card Ladder
Higher or lower. Call it right and climb; call it wrong and it's over.
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Also known as
The same game carries a different name in almost every market, and the app uses your country's:
- Kadi — Kenya
- Karata — Tanzania
What Card Ladder is
One card is face up. You say whether the next one will be higher or lower. Get it right and you climb a rung; get it wrong and the hand ends.
It is the simplest game here to explain and the hardest to walk away from, for the same reason.
How to play
- Set your stake and start a hand.
- Look at the face-up card and call higher or lower.
- Correct, and the new card becomes the one to beat, with your multiplier raised.
- Wrong, and the hand ends with nothing.
- Bank at any point to keep what you have climbed to.
At a glance
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Call
- Higher or lower
- Return to player
- 80%
- Cost
- Sweep Stars
The card on the table tells you what to do
This is the one game here with a genuinely correct move, and it is not subtle: call higher on a low card and lower on a high card. On a two, almost everything beats it. On a king, almost nothing does.
The middle is where it gets uncomfortable. On a seven or eight the call is close to a coin flip whichever way you go, and that is precisely when the multiplier is tempting enough to make people call badly.
The payout adjusts to the odds of the call you are making, so playing correctly does not increase your long-run return — but playing incorrectly on an obvious card genuinely does waste a rung you were being paid for. Read the card before you tap.
Worth knowing before you play
The deck is sealed before your call and revealed afterwards. A run of ten is possible and most hands end well before it.
Every random result is sealed before you choose and published afterwards, so it can be checked rather than trusted — see provably fair.
Play Card Ladder
The button below opens Lottra in Telegram and goes straight to this game.
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