Play Souq Deal online with friends, free

How to play Souq Deal

1. Everyone gets 5 cards. The deck has 106 cards: properties in 10 colours, wild properties, money, rent cards and action cards.
2. At the start of your turn you draw 2 cards, or 5 if your hand is empty.
3. Then make up to 3 plays: bank a money, action or rent card as money, place a property in your estate, play an action, or charge rent.
4. Properties can’t be banked. A two-colour wild property shows one of its colours, and on your turn you may move your wild cards between your sets for free.
5. Rent: a rent card charges for one of its colours, using your best set of that colour. A two-colour rent card charges every other player; an any-colour rent card charges one player you choose.
6. When you are charged, you pay from your bank and your estate, never from your hand. Nobody gives change, and if you can’t cover it, everything you have goes.
7. When an action or rent is aimed at you, play La! to cancel it. The other player may answer with their own La!, and so on.
8. At the end of your turn, discard down to 7 cards. The first player with 3 complete sets of different colours wins the game at once.

Souq Deal cards at a glance

• Takeover: take one complete set from another player, buildings included.
• Snatch: take one property from another player’s incomplete set.
• Trade: swap one property from your incomplete set with one from theirs.
• Pay Up: one player you choose pays you 5 M. Eidiya: every other player pays you 2 M.
• Souq Day: draw 2 more cards. Peak Season: play it with a rent card to double the rent; each one uses a play.
• Shop (+3 M rent) and Tower (+4 M rent) go on a complete set, never on Transit or Services. A Tower needs a Shop first.
• La!: cancels an action aimed at you, or a La! aimed back at you. Answering with La! never uses a play.

Souq Deal in Rayoosh

• Players: 2, 3, 4 or 5, every player for themselves.
• Three themes with the same rules: Gulf (souqs, marinas and desert camps, with Shop and Tower), Egypt (bazaars, the Nile and the Red Sea, with Shop and Café) and World (harbours, lodges and grand palaces, where Eidiya becomes Party Gift).
• Quick: 1 game, about 12 minutes. Full: 3 games, about 35 minutes. A win is worth 3 match points, and every other player gets 1 point for each complete set (up to 2).
• Pearls by finishing place: up to 35 for a Quick win and 60 for a Full win. Never bought, never cashed out.
• Our own cards and art, with a symbol for every colour so each set reads clearly even without colour vision. Tap a card to see what it can do. Works on phones, tablets, computers and TVs with a remote, in Arabic, English and Hindi.

Tips to win at Souq Deal

• Bank some money early. With an empty bank, rent is paid with your properties.
• Keep a La! for the big moments: a Takeover of your complete set, or a heavy rent.
• Don’t leave a set one card short for long: an incomplete set is open to Snatch and Trade.
• Save Takeover for the player closest to winning.
• Pair a big rent with Peak Season: with a Shop and a Tower on your set, the rent grows fast.
• Wild cards move for free on your turn: check them before you end, you might complete a set.

Play Souq Deal 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, from a 2-player game 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.