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How to play Leekha

1. Four players, 13 cards each from a 52-card deck. Aces are high, and play goes counter-clockwise: the next player is on your right.
2. Pass 3 cards. Everyone picks at the same time and the cards change hands together: to the right in the first deal, to the left in the next, and so on. In 2 vs 2 you always pass to an opponent.
3. The player on the dealer's right leads the first trick with any card. Hearts can be led at any time.
4. Follow the led suit if you can. There is no trump: the highest card of the led suit takes the trick, and its winner leads the next one.
5. The Leekha rule: if you can't follow suit and you hold the Q♠ or the 10♦, you must play one of them. Hearts are never forced.
6. After 13 tricks, everyone counts the penalty cards they took.
7. The match ends when a player reaches 101. The lowest score wins.

Leekha penalty cards and doubles

• Every heart: 1 point.
• Queen of spades (Q♠): 13 points.
• Ten of diamonds (10♦): 10 points. That makes 36 points in every deal.
• Doubles mode: after the pass, whoever holds the Q♠ or the 10♦ may show it to double it. A doubled Q♠ costs 26 and a doubled 10♦ costs 20.
• If both are doubled, every heart counts 2.
• In 2 vs 2, partners' scores are added, and the team with the lower total wins, whoever crossed 101.

Leekha in Rayoosh

• Players: 4, as 2 vs 2 partners sitting opposite each other (the default) or each for yourself.
• Modes: Classic, with the Leekha rule and no doubling, or Doubles, where you can show the Q♠ or the 10♦ to double it.
• Length: to 101, about 20 minutes. A tie for first plays another deal.
• Passing and doubling happen for everyone at once, and nobody sees a choice until all are in.
• Pearls by finishing place, up to 75 for a win.
• Works on phones, tablets, computers and TVs with a remote, in Arabic, English or Hindi.

Tips to win at Leekha

• Pass the danger: a Q♠ with few low spades, a bare 10♦, high hearts, and the A♠ or K♠ that could catch the queen.
• Empty a suit when you can. Once you are void, you can drop the Q♠ or the 10♦ on someone else's trick.
• Duck with the highest card that still loses. If you must win a trick, win it with your highest card that carries no points.
• Lead low spades or low diamonds to smoke out the Q♠ and the 10♦.
• With a partner, never throw points on a trick your partner is winning.
• In Doubles, show your card only with plenty of low cards in its suit, or a void elsewhere, so it rarely comes back to you.

Play Leekha 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 can fill any empty seat.
• 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.