Play Court Piece online with friends

Quick Play is for finding strangers. This is the other half of the game: your group, your table, your house rules — the cousins, the office four, the friends who have been arguing about the same hand since 2011.

No sign-up, no accounts to create for anyone, nothing to coordinate beyond sending one message.

1. Create a private room

Create room gives you a table that matchmaking cannot touch. You are the host: you hold the four seats, choose the rules and decide when the hand starts. Nobody arrives uninvited.

2. Set your house rules

This is the part that settles family arguments permanently. Before anyone sits down, pick:

• Double Sir — tricks pile up in the middle until someone wins two in a row.
• Band Hukam — the trump suit stays secret until the first card of it is played.
• Free-for-all — no follow-suit rule, for a deliberately silly game.
• Match length — how many points it takes to win.

The server then enforces exactly that set. Nobody can misremember the rule mid-hand, because the illegal card simply will not play. The variants page explains what each one does to the strategy.

3. Share the code or the link

Every room gets a five-character code — something like R7KQ2. The alphabet deliberately leaves out the characters people misread, so there is no O-versus-zero phone call.

Two ways to get your group in:

• Send the code. They open RUNG, tap Join by code, type five characters, and they are in.
• Send the invite link. Share it on WhatsApp and whoever taps it lands directly at your table. If they do not have RUNG yet, the link takes them to the install first and then to your room.

You can also invite from your friends list: add people once, see when they are online, and pull them into a table in one tap. Incoming invites arrive as a banner wherever you are in the app, and as a push notification when you are not.

4. Fill the seats you cannot fill

Court Piece needs exactly four. Real life rarely supplies exactly four.

Any seat nobody claims can take a bot, at easy, medium or hard. They follow every rule the humans do and see only what a human in that seat would see — a bot never gets a look at a hidden hand. Three of you and one bot is a perfectly good game; more on how the bots play.

Teams and seats

Partners sit opposite. In a private room the host can move people between seats before the first deal, so you can set the partnerships your group expects — brothers against cousins, or whatever the running feud is.

Partnerships are fixed for the match. You cannot swap partners mid-hand, and you cannot tell your partner what you hold. Everything they learn about your hand, they learn from the cards you choose.

What happens when someone’s signal drops

Patchy connections are normal, so the game is built for them. The match state lives on the server rather than on anyone’s phone, which means:

• Whoever dropped comes back to their own seat, their own cards and the real score.
• A bot plays their turns while they are gone, so the other three are never stuck waiting.
• Closing the app, taking a call or walking into a lift does not end the match.

Do private rooms count for rating?

No, and deliberately. Private matches never move your rating — otherwise four friends could farm rating off each other all afternoon. Play ranked when you want the ladder; play private when you want your people.