Play Hand Saudi online with friends, free

How to play Hand Saudi

1. Two 52-card decks plus 2 jokers: 106 cards. Everyone gets 14 cards; the player after the dealer gets 15 and plays first, skipping the draw.
2. Play goes counter-clockwise: the next player is on your right. On your turn, draw from the deck or take the open card on the discard pile, then discard one card to end your turn.
3. Melds are sets (3 or 4 cards of one rank, all different suits) or runs (3 or more in a row of one suit). The ace goes low (A-2-3) or high (Q-K-A), never round the corner.
4. Your first lay-down of the round is your opening, and it must reach your bar. The first player to open needs 51; every later opener needs the best opening so far plus 1.
5. Take the open card only if you lay it at once: in your opening, in a new meld, or added to a meld on the table.
6. Once you are down, lay new melds of any value, add cards to any meld on the table and swap out jokers.
7. The round ends the moment someone has no cards left. Lay your whole hand down in one turn without having been down before, and it is a Hand: every score of the round doubles.
8. After the last round, the lowest total wins.

Hand Saudi rules and scoring at a glance

• Opening value: 2 to 10 count their number, J, Q and K count 10, an ace 11 (or 1 in A-2-3), and a joker counts the card it stands for.
• The bar climbs: if one player opens with 58, the next needs 59. It resets every round, and only the opening counts towards it, never later melds or added cards.
• Jokers are the only wild cards; 2s are ordinary. Every meld needs at least two real cards.
• Joker swap: once you are down, put the card a joker stands for in its place and take the joker. A 3-card set needs both missing suits at once.
• Going out: −30. Going out with a Hand: −60.
• Cards left in hand count against you: 2 to 10 their number, court cards 10, ace 11, joker 15. Doubled after a Hand.
• Never went down this round: 100 (200 after a Hand).
• If the deck runs out, the discard pile is shuffled in once; if it runs out again, the round ends with no winner.

Hand Saudi in Rayoosh

• Players: 2, 3, 4 or 5, each for themselves, or Partner 2 vs 2 with your partner sitting opposite.
• Partner: only the other team's openings raise your bar. When one partner goes out, the team scores −30 (−60 for a Hand) and the partner's cards don't count; the other team adds up both hands.
• Quick: 1 round, about 8 minutes. Full: 5 rounds, about 35 minutes. Equal team totals play one extra round.
• Pearls by finishing place, up to 35 for a Quick win and 65 for a Full win. Never bought, never cashed out.
• The score box shows your live bar, such as “Open with 64”, and the open card lights up only when you can use it.
• Jokers you can free glow on the table. Works on phones, tablets, computers and TVs with a remote, in Arabic, English and Hindi.

Tips to win at Hand Saudi

• Open as soon as you reach the bar: every opening before yours makes yours harder.
• At a table of 4 or 5, a big opening raises the bar for everyone still waiting.
• Before you are down, keep high cards that can join melds: they help you reach a high bar, and an unopened hand costs 100 anyway.
• Take the open card only when it moves you forward, since you must lay it straight away.
• Once down, throw your highest cards first, but never one the next player could add to a meld on the table.
• In Partner, add your cards to your partner's melds, and when your partner is close to going out, shed your high cards.

Play Hand Saudi with friends

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• Computer players fill any empty seat, from a 2-player duel to a table of 5.
• Text chat with quick phrases, voice chat, emotes and gifts at the table.
• A short lesson and practice games against the computer, any time.
• Once Rayoosh is installed, you can play the computer even without internet.