Play Jackaroo online with friends, free

How to play Jackaroo

1. Four players in two teams, with your partner sitting opposite you. Each player has marbles waiting at home: 4 each in a Full game, 2 each in a Quick game.
2. Cards come from one 52-card deck, dealt four to each player. On your turn you play exactly one card and move by its power.
3. An Ace or a King brings a marble out onto your start square. A marble can't come out while one of your own marbles is already sitting there.
4. Number cards move a marble forward by their value; the Queen moves 12. The Ace can also move 1 or 11.
5. The 4 moves a marble 4 squares back. A marble just out can go back 4, then slip into its safe lane with the next card.
6. The 7 moves 7, all on one marble or split between two of your marbles, like 3 and 4.
7. The Jack swaps one of your marbles on the track with an opponent's marble. Nobody is sent home by a swap.
8. Land on any marble and it goes back home. Your team wins when all its marbles are safe in the lanes.

Jackaroo rules at a glance

• No passing: if you have a card that can move, you must play it. If none of your cards can move, you burn one: it is discarded with no effect.
• A marble sitting on its own start square blocks the way: nobody can pass it or land on it.
• Two marbles of the same colour side by side make a block that other marbles can't pass.
• Into the safe lane by exact count only: a card that would carry a marble past the end of its lane can't be used on it. Marbles in the lane are safe from everyone.
• Once all your marbles are safe, your cards move your partner's marbles instead, so you keep helping your team.
• Jackaroo Complex adds three powers: the King can also move 13 and break through blocks, the 5 can move any marble on the track, even a rival's, and the 10 can also make the next player burn a card.

Jackaroo in Rayoosh

• Players: 2 vs 2 with your partner opposite, or 4 players each for themselves.
• Modes: Jackaroo (Classic) and Jackaroo Complex, both on the same board.
• Quick: 2 marbles each, about 12 minutes. Full: 4 marbles each, about 30 minutes.
• Pearls by finishing place: 45 for a Quick win and 80 for a Full win. Never bought, never cashed out.
• Tap a card and the marbles it can move light up; tap a marble to move it. The 7 split and the Jack swap take just a few taps.
• Works on phones, tablets, computers and TVs with a remote, in Arabic, English and Hindi.

Tips to win at Jackaroo

• Keep an Ace or a King while marbles are still at home: without one, they can't come out.
• Save a 4 for a marble on its start square: going back 4 puts it right in front of its safe lane.
• Hold a 7 when two marbles are near the lane: the split can bring both home in one turn.
• Keep the Jack for a rival marble close to its lane, and swap it far back with one of yours.
• Don't park a marble 5, 7, 8 or 9 squares in front of a rival: those are the cards they are most likely to hold.
• Never land on your partner's marble: it goes home just like a rival's.

Play Jackaroo with friends

Create a private table, share the link on WhatsApp, show the QR code or read out the room code, and your friends join in seconds with no download.

• Computer players fill any empty seat, so two friends can play as a team.
• 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.