Many Card GamesPlay Court piece online
Court piece in the browser, for nothing: open a table, send the code to whoever is playing, and let a bot take any chair nobody fills.
- 4 players
- Bots for empty seats
- Free
- Nothing to download
A free account opens the table. Friends you invite join without one.
How Court piece is played here
The rules this table deals by. Everybody at the table sees the same lines before the first hand.
- Four players, partners sitting opposite. Thirteen cards each, dealt five and then four and four.
- The player to the dealer's right sees the first five cards and calls the trump suit from them alone — and keeps the call for as long as their side keeps winning.
- Tricks are not gathered one at a time. They lie in a bundle in the middle and are carried off only when the other side finally takes one.
- Seven tricks take the hand. A side that has taken the first seven plays on for all thirteen, which is the kot and pays three.
How it works
- Open a table. It gets a short code of its own.
- Read the code out, or send the link. Anyone you send it to sits down as a guest, without an account.
- Deal once everyone is seated — or give each empty chair a bot and start now.
How multiplayer Court piece works
Playing Court piece online with other people, step by step: the code, the seats, the table rules, and what happens when somebody drops out.
Inviting the table
The host opens the table, which needs a free account, and shares its six-character code or the link from "Copy link". On a phone "Challenge a friend" stands beside it, and hands that invitation straight to Messenger, Instagram, Snapchat or whatever else you chat in. Everyone who follows it picks a name and sits down as a guest; nobody else needs an account.
Court Piece here is for exactly four players. Everybody should be in the lobby before the first hand, because a game in progress cannot be joined. If the table is short, the host can press "Add an opponent" to seat a bot.
Partners and the table rules
The order you sit down in decides the partnerships: first and third against second and fourth, partners opposite each other.
The host chooses whether the game goes to 5 or 7 points, and whether a 7–0 hand is chased to thirteen for a three-point kot or every hand stops at seven. Everyone sees the choice.
Calling trumps
The caller sees five cards and gets "Call the trump suit"; the other three wait. Then everyone gets four cards, and four more.
On the first hand the caller is the player to the dealer's right. After that the caller keeps it while their side wins, and loses it to the player on their right when their side loses.
The bundles and the score
The table only lets you play legal cards: follow suit if you can, anything if you cannot. Tricks lie in a bundle in the middle while one side keeps winning, and the table shows how many and whose they are until the other side takes one.
After each hand the table shows the tricks, the point or the kot, and whether the caller keeps the call. The next hand starts once everyone has pressed "Ready for the next hand".
If somebody drops out
A player whose connection drops is shown as away and waited for twenty-five seconds. After that a bot plays their cards until they return, and opening the table again gives them their seat back. A player who presses Leave mid-game is replaced by a bot for the rest of it.
If the host leaves, hosting passes to whoever has been sitting longest. A table with no activity for six hours is cleared away.
Questions about playing Court piece online
- How many can play Court piece online here?
- 4 at one table. A bot can take any seat nobody fills, so a game never has to wait for somebody to turn up.
- Can I play Court piece against the computer?
- Yes. Give any empty seat a bot and it plays like anyone else at the table, seeing only its own cards.
- Does it cost anything?
- No. Every table here is free, there are no ads, and nothing about you is sold or handed on.
- Do I need an account?
- Only to open a table. Joining one never needs an account — anyone you send the code to sits down as a guest.
- Does Court piece work on a phone?
- Yes. It runs in the browser on a phone, a tablet or a computer, and there is nothing to install.