Badugi (the hand)

Mixed-game term

A badugi is four cards with four different ranks and four different suits. The word names the hand as well as the game it comes from.

Repeat a rank or a suit and that card stops playing, leaving a three-card badugi — and any four-card badugi beats any three-card one, however low the three are. The best possible badugi is A-2-3-4, one of each suit.

A badugi, and not a badugi
A
2
3
4
✓ four ranks, four suits — the best there is
A
2
3
7
✗ a second spade — the 7 dies, three-card badugi