Court Piece · Rang · Rung · Hokm — one game, many spellings
Coat Piece is what half of North India calls Court Piece: the four-player trick-taking card game where one player looks at just five cards and names the trump — the rang — for everyone. Two partnerships, thirteen cards each, first side to seven haath wins the round, and taking the first seven straight is the kot the game is named for.
The game came into English through two doors. "Court" is the older spelling and points at the court cards and the court (kot) that ends a round early. "Coat" is how the same word is heard and written across Punjab, Delhi and Pakistan, and it is the spelling most people type into a search box. Neither is wrong; they are the same rules to the card.
The full rules — every game, scoring in points and courts, who deals next — are on the Court Piece rules page. Hindi speakers: कोर्ट पीस के नियम.
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Rang / Rung / Hukum | the trump suit |
| Haath | one trick (four cards) |
| Kot / Court | the first seven haath straight, or all thirteen collected (Double Sir, the pile game) |
| Sir | a claimed haath, in the Single Sir / Double Sir variants |
| Baazi | one round |
| Baithak | the sitting — the whole evening of cards |
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Yes. "Coat Piece" and "Court Piece" are two spellings of one game; the name comes from the Court (a kot — winning the first seven haath of a round straight). In Hindi and Urdu it is simply Rang or Rung, after the trump suit.
Exactly four, in two partnerships. Partners sit opposite each other. There is no three-player or five-player version of the real game — apps that offer one are playing something else.
Yes, a few rounds a day. Without internet, Rung Royal gives you three free rounds a day at a full four-seat table against three bots with distinct playing styles; with Remove Ads you can play offline any time. With internet the bots are always ready, so you do not need three friends online at the same time.
In Single Sir, Hidden Rung and Be-Ranga, a kot (court) is winning the first seven haath (tricks) of a round straight; in Double Sir, the pile game, it is collecting all thirteen. By the team that called the trump it is a court, by the other team a goon court. It scores more than any plain win, and it is the reason people remember individual hands for years.
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