Concan rules | Sahrat

These are Sahrat’s default rules. Where tables differ from one majlis to another, the difference is a table option, and every option is free.

Concan in Sahrat is from the Hand family: the same cards and the same turn, with one special move called «كونكان» (Concan).

1Players

Two decks and two jokers: 106 cards.
Each player gets 14 cards; the player on the dealer’s right gets 15 and starts by throwing one card on «كومة النار» (the fire pile, the discard pile).
The rest is «السحبة» (the stock), face down.

Draw one card: from the stock, or the last card thrown on the fire pile.
Lay down melds, lay off on open melds, or swap a joker.
Throw one card on the fire pile to end your turn.

If you take from the fire pile, you must use that card in what you lay down the same turn.
A joker may never be thrown.
When the stock runs out, the fire pile (except its top card) is shuffled into a new stock, at most 3 times a round. If it runs out a fourth time, the round ends with no winner and is scored as if nobody went out.

Three cards or more: a run in one suit, or a set of one rank in different suits.
Values: 2 to 10 at face value; Jack, Queen and King 10; Ace 11.
A joker stands for any card and counts as the card it replaces. At most one joker per meld.
Joker swap: put the card the joker stands for in its place and take the joker. A run needs one card; a set needs the two missing cards.

Your first lay-down must total 51 or more (71 in Concan 71).
The opening is flat: once you have opened, later lay-downs do not need to beat anything.
After opening you may lay off on any open meld.

A round ends when a player has no cards left. You go out by throwing your last card.
«هاند» (a Hand): laying down all your cards at once in one turn, without laying off on anyone’s melds. Every point in the round is doubled.

A Concan: a run of 10 plus a set of 4, or a run of 11 plus a set of 3, all laid down in one turn. Jokers are allowed, one per meld.
In rounds 1 to 4: a Concan counts exactly like a «هاند» (−60, and the others’ scores are doubled).
In the last round: you can commit to a Concan.
- You commit at the start of your turn, before you draw, never after laying down.
- Once committed you may take from the fire pile without laying down, and you may lay down only when the Concan is complete.
- You lay down 14 cards and throw the 15th on the fire pile.
- Completing a committed Concan in the last round wins the match at once, whatever the totals.
- If you commit and do not complete it, you score like a player who never opened: 100 (200 in a round that ended with a Hand).

The player who goes out: −30, or −60 with a Hand (or a Concan in rounds 1 to 4).
Everyone else: the value of the cards left in hand; Ace 11, joker 15.
A player who never opened: a flat 100, or 200 in a round that ended with a Hand.
After a Hand, every loser’s score is doubled.

Five rounds; the lowest total wins.
A tie after five rounds plays one extra round.
At coin tables (table coins are earned by playing, never sold): with two players the winner takes it all; with three or four, first 70% and second 30%. The winner by a committed Concan ranks first.

Bots only at free tables. A bot that takes a seat plays on with the same hand; leaving never re-deals.