Court Piece online: your questions

A trick-taking card game for four players in two fixed partnerships, played with a standard 52-card deck. One player names a trump suit after seeing only five cards, thirteen tricks are then played out, and the first partnership to seven tricks wins the hand. The game explained in full.

Yes — these are regional names for the same game. Rang and rung mean the trump suit in Punjabi and Urdu; coat piece and coat pees are how “court piece” is usually pronounced; hokm is the Persian name. All the names, by region.

Four, in two teams of two, with partners sitting opposite. Online, bots can fill any seat nobody takes, so you never have to assemble three other people first.

The player to the dealer’s right, after seeing only their first five cards. They also lead the first trick. If their team wins the hand, the same player calls again next hand; the deal only moves on when the calling team loses.

Seven of thirteen takes the hand. If the losing side is still on zero when the seventh trick is taken, play continues, because a 13–0 sweep — a kot — is still possible and worth double.

Optional house rules. In Double Sir won tricks stay in the middle until one player wins two tricks in a row and sweeps the pile. In Band Hukam only the caller knows the trump suit, until the first card of it is played. Both explained in detail.

Yes, free to download and free to play, supported by advertising. There are no in-app purchases — coins are earned by playing and buy cosmetics such as card backs, table felts, avatars and reactions.

No. You can play immediately as a guest and the game remembers you on that device. Signing in with Google or an email address is optional, and only exists so your rank, coins and friends move with you to a new phone.

Create a private room, set the house rules, and share the five-character room code or the invite link on WhatsApp. Anyone who opens the link lands straight at your table. Step by step.

Yes. Add a bot to any seat your group cannot fill, at easy, medium or hard. The bots follow the same rules and see only what a player in that seat would see.

Yes. Practice mode runs entirely on your device against bots, including the variants, so it works in airplane mode. Practice never affects your rating. More on practice mode.

The match lives on the server, so nothing is lost. A bot covers your turns while you are away, and when you reconnect you get your seat, your cards and the real score back exactly as they were.

They cannot. A bot asks the game engine for the view of the seat it is sitting in — the same view the app gets — and there is no interface that returns more. It cannot see other hands or the undealt deck, and with Band Hukam on it does not know the trump suit unless it called it.

A hand is a few minutes; a match is first to two points, so usually two or three hands — roughly five to ten minutes. A kot wins a match outright.

Every ranked match moves an Elo rating, computed on the server. You start at 1000 — Silver III — and climb through Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond and Master, each with three divisions except Master. Ranks and seasons in full.

No. Only Quick Play ranked matches move your rating, so a group of friends cannot farm rating off each other.

Monthly. Leaderboards are scored inside the current season, while your rating, tier, lifetime stats and achievements carry across.

Cosmetics: card backs, table felts, avatars and reactions. They are earned from matches, daily missions and achievements, and they cannot be bought with money or cashed out for it.

Android 7.0 and newer, as about a 2.8 MB download. A browser version is in testing and will run on any modern browser, including Safari on iPhone. Download details.

Not yet. Android is live and the browser version, which works in Safari, is the route that will reach iPhone first.

Yes. The app interface is available in English and Urdu (اردو).

No. There is no betting, no wagering, no real-money stakes and no way to cash anything out. Coins are in-game currency for cosmetics only.

Your display name, an account id, match results and progression — plus an email address only if you choose to sign in with one. It asks for no contacts, photos, location or microphone access. You can delete your account from inside Settings, and export everything held about you from the same screen. Privacy policy.

Email haideryzai2@gmail.com. Bug reports with a screenshot and the version number from Settings are genuinely useful and do get read.