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How to play Kasra

1. Four players get 13 cards each from a 52-card deck. Aces are high, and play goes counter-clockwise, to the right.
2. The player dealt the 7♥ owns the first kingdom. Each later kingdom goes to the next player, so everyone owns one.
3. In each deal the owner looks at the new hand and picks one of the kingdom's contracts not played yet. Each of the four is played once per kingdom.
4. In trick contracts, follow the led suit if you can; if not, play any card. The highest card of the led suit wins, unless a trump falls in Tarneeb.
5. The owner leads the first trick of every trick contract, and the trick winner leads the next.
6. In Trix there are no tricks: lay cards in rows that grow from the jacks, and race to empty your hand.
7. After 4 kingdoms, 16 deals in all, the highest total wins.

Kasra contracts at a glance

• Complex: every trick −15, the K♥ −75, each queen −25, each diamond −10 (the Q♦ −35). The deal totals −500 before doubles.
• Tarneeb: the owner names trump, then leads. Every trick won scores +10, so the deal hands out +130.
• Tarneeb play: follow suit if you can. A player who can't may trump or throw any card; trumping is never forced. The highest trump wins.
• Last two tricks (Ltoosh): tricks 1 to 11 cost nothing. The 12th trick costs −60 and the 13th −70.
• Trix: each suit's row starts with its jack and grows up Q, K, A and down 10 to 2. You must lay a card if you can. Out first +200, second +150, third +100, last +50.
• Doubling exists only in Complex: show the K♥ or a queen before the first lead. Its taker loses −150 or −50, and the doubler gains +75 or +25 if another player took it.
• Without doubles, a whole kingdom adds up to 0: −500, +130, −130 and +500.

Kasra in Rayoosh

• Players: 4, each for themselves, or 2 vs 2 Partner with your partner sitting opposite.
• In Partner, both partners' points add up to one team total.
• One match: 4 kingdoms of 4 contracts, 16 deals, about 27 minutes.
• Pearls by finishing place: 100, 40, 12 and 4.
• When only one contract is left in a kingdom, it is picked for you automatically.
• Works on phones, tablets, computers and TVs with a remote, in Arabic, English and Hindi.

Tips to win at Kasra

• Pick the contract for the hand: a long suit with top cards is made for Tarneeb, jacks and middle cards favour Trix, and low cards in every suit are the time for Complex.
• In the last-two contract, tricks 1 to 11 are free: shed your high cards early and keep low ones for the end.
• In Tarneeb, name the suit where you hold length and top cards, and draw trumps when you hold the master trump.
• In Trix, hold on to a card that blocks a long run of other players' cards, and move the runs that are mostly yours.
• In Complex, duck with the highest card that still loses, and throw the K♥ or queens on someone else's trick.
• In Partner, never throw a penalty card on a trick your partner is winning.

Play Kasra with friends

Create a private table and share the link on WhatsApp, show the QR code or read out the room code. Your friends join in seconds, with nothing to download.

• Computer players fill any empty seat, so even three friends can start a match.
• 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.