Levels gained depend on your partner
Guandan is four players in two teams, partners sitting across. When a round ends, the winning team’s advancement depends entirely on where the first player’s partner finished.
| Result | Levels |
|---|---|
| 双上（1+2） | +3 |
| 1 + 3 | +2 |
| 1 + 4 | +1 |
The level card runs 2 to A and stalls at A
Levels run 2 through 10, then J, Q, K, A. Advancement caps at A: even a three-level double win stops at A if you were one short.
Once at A you must win again: in the round played at level A, your team needs first place with the partner not finishing last — a double win or first-and-third — to clear A and take the match. First-and-last merely holds A for another try.
Common house variants
House rules differ, so settle three things before you start: whether three failed attempts at A send you back to 2 or down a level; whether the red-heart level card is wild; and how tribute works. None of it changes the table above — all of it changes how loud the table gets.
Tired of tracking this by hand?
The Guandan scorekeeper on Tallyo does all of this automatically: tap who went out first and where the partner landed, and both teams’ levels advance, stall at A and clear A by the book — with optional money settlement. One room code, four phones, live.