Leekha is a card game involves four players partnership.The standard international 52 card pack is used, and jokers are excluded. The game ends when one of the players reaches 101 points or more, and the other team is considered the winner.

Cards and Dealing

In the beginning, each player is dealt 13 cards, and the turn shifts counter clockwise. The players should arrange their cards which are from the same suit together.

Cards are arranged from the lowest to the highest as follows:

2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-J-Q-K-A

Game Play

In each round, each player picks 3 cards and passes them once to the player on his/her right, and the other to the player on his/her left.

The player to the right of the dealer leads the trick, and other players must follow suit if they can, if they can’t, they are allowed to play any other suit, the player who plays the highest card of the suit led collects the trick and leads next round.The game ends when one of the players reaches 101 points or more, and the other team is considered the winner.

Players must avoid collecting tricks which include the following cards:

(Q) of spades

10 of diamonds

Any card of hearts

The round ends when all cards are played.

Talyeekh

In Leekha card game there is a concept called Talyeekh, this concept is always obligatory on the Jawaker game App. Talyeekh is when one of the players has a 10 of diamonds or a Q of spades, and doesn’t have a card of the suit led.

In this case, the player is obliged to play any of the two cards mentioned.

Talyeekh is only considered when having the 10 of diamonds, and Q of spades cards in hand!

In case the player had both of these cards in the same time and Talyeekh applies to them, they can pick any card and play it.

Scoring

In leekha, each player counts their score individually, and when a player reaches 101 points or more, their team loses, and the other team is considered the winner.

The player who collects a trick that includes one of these cards gets points as follows:

13 points for the Q of spades card

10 points for the 10 of diamonds card

One point for each card of hearts.

If the total points of one of the players reaches 101 or more in the middle of the round, players continue to play until all cards are played, the winner team is picked when the round ends.

In case two player’s total points reaches 101 or more, the team with the lowest points in total wins.