Names
Coat Piece, Rang, Rung, Hokm — one game, many names
Court Piece spread by being played rather than published, so the name changed with every language it passed through. Here is the full list, who uses which, and what genuinely differs between them.
Updated October 2026
If you searched for coat piece, coat pees, rang, rung or hakam and ended up here — you found the right game. They are all the same thing: a four-player, two-team, thirteen-trick card game with one trump suit, called after five cards.
There is no official spelling. The game spread by being played, not by being published, so the name changed with every language it passed through.
The names, and who uses them
| Name | Where you hear it | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Court Piece | Pakistan, India — the standard written English name, and what app stores list | From court, the unit a won hand is scored in |
| Coat Piece / Coat Pees | Extremely common in speech and in searches | How “court” sounds said quickly; also conflated with kot, the 13-trick sweep |
| Rung / Rang | Punjabi and Urdu speakers, everyday use | Rang — colour, meaning the suit. The trump suit names the whole game |
| Hukam / Hakam | Urdu speakers and the Gulf | Arabic and Urdu for order or command — the suit that commands |
| Hokm | Iran and Persian speakers | Same word, Persian form. A close relative with its own scoring conventions |
| Kot Pees / Kaut Piece | Regional and phonetic spellings | From kot, taking all thirteen tricks |
| Troefcall | Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean | Dutch troef (trump) plus “call”; carried by Indian indentured migration |
So which one is correct?
All of them, honestly. If you want a rule of thumb:
- Writing in English, or looking for an app? Use Court Piece.
- Talking to family? Say whatever they say — usually rung or rang.
- Searching? Try both. Coat piece and court piece return mostly the same games.
Our app is called RUNG for the simplest reason: it is the word actual players use at actual tables, and it is the suit the entire hand revolves around.
Is it really the same game?
The core is identical wherever you go:
- 52 cards, four players, two fixed partnerships, partners opposite.
- Five cards dealt, then one player names the trump suit.
- The rest dealt out to thirteen cards each.
- Follow suit if you can; highest trump beats everything; highest card of the led suit otherwise.
- Seven tricks takes the hand; all thirteen is the big score.
What differs between regions is the trimmings: how much a sweep is worth, whether a decided hand plays on, whether the trump is announced or kept secret, and whether won tricks are collected immediately or left to pile up. Those are exactly the variants you can switch on and off per table in RUNG — which is the tidiest answer to “but that’s not how we play it at home”.
Games people confuse it with
- Call Break (also Call Bridge, Lakadi) — spades always trump, every player bids individually, no partnerships. A different game that looks similar at a glance.
- Mendikot — four players in partnerships, but the goal is capturing tens rather than winning tricks.
- Seep — a fishing game, not trick-taking at all.
- Tarneeb — partnership trick-taking with a proper auction. The Levantine relative.
- Spades — the American cousin. Partnerships, fixed trump, contract bidding.
More on where Court Piece sits among them on what is Court Piece.
Play it under any name
RUNG deals the standard ruleset by default and lets you switch the house rules your family uses. The interface is in English and Urdu, it is free, and there is no real-money gambling anywhere in it.
Whatever you call it, it deals in seconds
Free, four real players, and the house rules your family uses.