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Also known as Rung · Rang · Hokm
The desi trick-taking classic, played live.
Court Piece — also known as Rung — is the cornerstone of South Asian card-game tables. Two teams sit opposite each other, the bid-winner picks a hidden trump, and every trick is a tug-of-war until one team sweeps the round. Sawariyan brings the table online with real-time multiplayer, instant invite links, and presets that match how YOU play it at home.
Sawariyan ships Court Piece with multiple house rules. Pick one in the lobby — the host decides which preset the table plays.
No bidding. First selector chooses hidden Rung from 5 cards.
Recommended. No bidding; the first Badrung declares Rung.
Classic bidding mode: bid first, choose hidden Rung, then play.
Court Piece is a four-player trick-taking card game played in two teams of two. Each player gets 13 cards, the bid-winner picks a hidden trump (rung), and teams compete to win the most tricks per hand. First team to the target score wins the match.
Hidden Rung is the classic Court Piece variant where the trump suit is chosen privately by the bid-winner and only revealed when a player can't follow the led suit. It rewards memory, table-reading and partner cues.
5-3-3 is the pile-streak rule: bidding starts after 5 cards, the FIRST pile of a hand is swept by 2 consecutive trick wins, and every pile after needs 3 in a row. It's the most-played Court Piece ruleset on home tables.
Yes. Sawariyan is completely free to play. Open the lobby, share the invite link with your friends, and you're at the table — no signup, no install.
No. Sawariyan runs in your browser. It works on phones, tablets and desktops, and the same invite link gets all of you to the same table.
Court Piece — also known as Rung, Rang, Hokm or simply “the trump game” — is a four-player partnership trick-taking card game from the South Asian and Persianate world. Two players sit opposite each other and play as a team. The goal of each hand is to win more tricks than the opposing team and, when conditions are right, to sweep the running pile.
A standard 52-card deck is used. The four players form two fixed teams of two, sitting in the alternating pattern A · B · A · B around the table. The dealer for the first hand is chosen at random; after that the deal rotates clockwise.
The dealer first deals each player 5 cards. The player to the dealer’s right — known as the bid-winner in most home games — looks at this opening hand and chooses the trump (rung). In the classic Hidden Rung variant, the trump suit is written down or said quietly and is not revealed to the rest of the table — it stays hidden until forced.
After trump is set, the dealer distributes the remaining 8 cards in two rounds (four cards, then four cards) so every player ends with a hand of 13.
The bid-winner leads the first card. Play moves clockwise. Everyone must follow suit if they can. If a player cannot follow suit, two things happen:
The highest card of the led suit (or the highest trump if any trumps were played) wins the trick. The team that wins the trick collects the four cards face-down in front of them and leads the next trick.
As tricks accumulate, they form a pending pile for whichever team is currently winning. Sawariyan’s default Hidden Rung 5-3-3 preset (the most common ruleset on home tables) governs when a pile is officially “swept” by the leading team:
A hand ends when all 13 tricks are played. Each pile that was successfully swept is recorded for the winning team. Most home tables play to a target of 7 hands, “first to 4”, but Sawariyan’s score panel tracks any agreed format. A match consists of as many hands as the players agree on; the team with the most piles at the end wins.
Court Piece descends from the same family as Whist, Spades and Bridge — partnership trick-taking games with a designated trump suit. The “hidden trump” wrinkle is what makes the South Asian and Persianate variants stand out: it converts every hand into a memory and inference puzzle rather than a pure card-counting exercise.
To play in person you need only a standard 52-card deck and four players willing to commit to a partnership. To play online with Sawariyan you need only an internet connection and the invite link your friend sends you. There is no app to install, no account to create, and no real-money component — Sawariyan is a social card-game portal, not a casino.
House rules vary widely. Some families play with “double sir” bonuses for back-to-back trick wins, others add an Ace rule that forces a high-card drop when an Ace is led, others prefer the open Show Rung variant for newcomers. Sawariyan ships these as named presets in the lobby so your table can pick the rules you grew up with.
Court Piece (Rung, Rang, Hokm) is a four-player South Asian trick-taking partnership card game using a standard 52-card deck. Two teams of two compete; trump is chosen by the bid-winner. On Sawariyan it can be played online for free in any browser with no signup, no install and no real-money gambling. Default ruleset: Hidden Rung 5-3-3 with opening 5-card deal, hidden trump revealed on first inability to follow suit, first pile swept by 2 consecutive trick wins from trick 5 onwards, every subsequent pile requires 3 consecutive trick wins. Sawariyan supports invite-link multiplayer, mobile and desktop, and a real-time table for all four seats.