EnglishHinglishहिन्दीਪੰਜਾਬੀاردوગુજરાતીবাংলাमराठी
Home › Court Piece › Mendikot
Mendicot · Mendi Coat · Dehla Pakad · मेंढीकोट · મેંઢીકોટ · the tens game of Maharashtra and Gujarat
Mendikot is a four-player partnership card game from western India in which the tens, not the tricks, decide the round. Capture three of the four tens and your side wins; capture all four and it is a mendikot, worth two points. The play is trick-taking with a trump, so anyone who knows Court Piece sits down and plays within a minute, and then loses, because the counting is different.
Play Mendikot in the free app
Free · no gambling · no coins to buy
The mendi is the ten. The word comes from the Gujarati mindum, zero, for the 0 in "10" — and kot is the same court that ends a Court Piece round early: a clean sweep. A mendikot, then, is the sweep of the tens. The game is played across Maharashtra and Gujarat and wherever families from there have moved, and it is spelled Mendicot and Mendhikot on the way. Rung Royal spells it Mendikot.
As Rung Royal plays them — the same sentences the app's rules screen uses.
| Result | Points |
|---|---|
| Mendi — 3 tens | +1 |
| Mendikot — all 4 tens | +2 |
| Whitewash — all 13 tricks | +3 |
The tens travel with the tricks. Whoever wins a trick with a ten in it has captured that ten for their side.
The two games are cousins. The trick mechanics are identical; the object is not, and the object changes every decision.
| Mendikot | Court Piece | |
|---|---|---|
| What you count | Tens captured | Tricks (haath) won |
| Wins the round | Three of four tens | Seven of thirteen tricks |
| Who sets the trump | Nobody calls it — the first card that cannot follow suit (Katte), or a face-down card (Band) | One player, on five cards |
| The big score | Mendikot: all four tens | Kot: the first seven tricks straight |
| A trick with no ten | Nearly worthless | One step to seven |
| Home | Maharashtra, Gujarat | North India, Pakistan |
In Court Piece you can lose the round with all four tens in your pile. In Mendikot you can lose nine tricks and still win, because three tens fell your way. Court Piece rules are on the Court Piece rules page; the shorter Mendikot rules card is at Mendikot rules.
Rung Royal plays Mendikot as one of its game modes — Katte by default, Band as a setting — with the tens counted for you and the round called in the words the table uses: mendi, mendikot, whitewash. A full four-seat table against three bots, or online with friends, in eight languages, Marathi and Gujarati among them. Free, with no coins and no gambling. Readers of Marathi and Gujarati have this page in their own language: मेंढीकोट कसा खेळायचा and મેંઢીકોટ કેવી રીતે રમવો; the Court Piece rules are also in Marathi and Gujarati.
Mendikot is a four-player partnership card game from Maharashtra and Gujarat, played with a standard 52-card pack. Tricks are played as in Court Piece, but the round is won by the side that takes three or four of the tens. Three tens is a mendi (1 point), all four a mendikot (2), all thirteen tricks a whitewash (3).
Exactly four, in two partnerships, partners sitting opposite. Every player gets thirteen cards, so the whole pack is in play and all four tens are somewhere on the table.
Nobody calls one. In Katte, Rung Royal's default, the first card played by someone who cannot follow suit becomes trump and counts as a trump in that trick. In Band, the player to the dealer's right lays one of their first five cards face down; the first time anyone cannot follow suit it is turned up before they play, and they must play a trump if they have one.
The tens are tied, so tricks decide: the partnership with seven or more of the thirteen tricks takes the round.
Taking all thirteen tricks. It brings all four tens with it, so it outranks a mendikot and scores 3 points.
Yes, in the free Rung Royal app on Android and iPhone: a full four-seat table against three bots, or online with friends at a private table, in eight languages including Marathi and Gujarati, with no coins and no gambling.
Play Mendikot in the free app
Free · no gambling · no coins to buy