The aim
Play one card at a time onto a shared pile and take the pile when you can. Points come from taking the most cards, from the scoring cards, and from every Xing. You share your captures with your partner, who sits opposite you.
Players and seats
- Every game has exactly four players in two teams of two. Partners sit opposite each other.
- Play goes clockwise.
- In games with people, bots take any empty seats. Bots are always named as bots.
- A standard 52-card deck is used.
The deal
Four cards go face up to the table to start the pile; the last of them is the top card. Everyone gets four cards, and four more each time all hands are empty, until the deck runs out.
- The last card of the deck is shown face up for the first five seconds of the hand, then turned face down. Remember it: it always goes to the dealer in the final deal.
- No Jack starts on the table. A Jack dealt to the table goes back under the deck as its very last card, so the dealer gets it in the final deal, and it is replaced from the deck.
- If two Jacks are dealt to the table, one goes last as above and the other goes back near the middle of the deck. Each is replaced.
- If three Jacks are dealt to the table, the hand is dealt again.
Your turn
Play one card from your hand onto the pile.
- If it has the same rank as the top card, you take the whole pile.
- A Jack takes the pile whatever is on top.
- Otherwise your card stays on the pile and becomes the new top card.
- Whoever captures first also takes the four starting cards with the pile.
Taking a pile of exactly one card with a card of the same rank is a Xing, worth 10 points.
- A Jack taking a lone Jack is a Xing too.
- A Jack taking a lone card of another rank is a capture, but not a Xing.
- There is no Xing on the very last card of a hand.
Scoring
Cards are counted once the deck and all hands are empty. Any cards left on the table go to the last player who captured. Each hand has 16 points in the cards, plus 10 for every Xing.
| What | Points |
|---|---|
| Most cards (nobody scores on a tie) | 3 |
| 10♦︎ | 3 |
| 2♣︎ | 2 |
| Each Ace | 1 |
| Each Jack | 1 |
| Each Xing | 10 |
Winning
Scores carry over from hand to hand. The first team to reach 51 points at the end of a hand wins.
- If both teams reach 51 in the same hand, play goes on to 71. The target is raised only once.
- If both teams reach 71 in the same hand, the higher score wins. If the scores are level, one more hand is played.
Leaving a game
- Games aren’t saved to continue later. Leaving a game with bots ends it.
- In a game with people, a bot takes over the seat of anyone who leaves or stops playing, so the others can carry on. The game ends once only bots are left.
Controls
Tap a card to play it, or drag it up onto the table. Keep track of what has been played yourself: the table never points out a capture, and there is no card counter. The pause button opens the rules, a restart and the main menu.