Taasho: Indian Card Games

About Taasho: Indian Card Games

Taasho is a home for the Indian card games India actually plays. Five classic trick-taking card games in one app, every one playable offline against bots, and now with your friends too.

29, 28, Mendikot, Judgement and Court Piece. Full rules, not simplified versions of them.

FIVE INDIAN CARD GAMES

29 (Twenty Nine)
The four card auction, then the hidden trump. Bid on the first four cards you are dealt, name a trump you keep face down, and turn it up when you are ready to. Pair adjustments and signed match scores included.

28 (Twenty Eight)
The Kerala style auction, with the stake riding on the number you called. Raise, pass, or take the bid, then go and play the hand you argued for.

Mendikot (Mendicot)
A full 52 card deal in partnerships. Capture all four tens for a Mendikot, take every trick for a Kot, and settle two to two ties on trick majority.

Judgement (Kachuful)
Hand sizes change every round. Trump rotates, then disappears entirely. Predict exactly how many tricks you will win, not one more and not one fewer, and hit it. The dealer is never allowed to make the calls add up neatly.

Court Piece (Coat Piece, Rang)
Call trump from your first five cards, then play out all thirteen. First side to seven tricks takes the hand. Take all thirteen and you take the court.

PLAY WITH FRIENDS

Create a private room, share the six character code, and your friends are at your table. The room opens when every seat is filled, so nobody plays short-handed. Same full rules, same games, real people in the seats.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Every game has feats worth naming: your first Mendikot, a court in Court Piece, a bid landed exactly in Judgement. Taasho notices, and the badge is yours for good.

LEADERBOARD

Every match you finish earns XP. Climb the board, hold your rank, and see how your table sense stacks up against everyone else playing the games you grew up with.

DAILY STREAKS

Play a hand a day and your streak grows. Miss a day and Taasho gives you a fair chance to save it, because life happens between deals.

BOTS THAT PLAY THE GAME, NOT THE SAVE FILE

Every bot sees exactly what a player in that seat would see: its own hand, and the cards already on the table. It is not a difficulty setting. The code itself makes it impossible to hand a bot the full game state, so a bot cannot know your cards even by accident.

When a bot works out what you might be holding, it plays out simulated deals that respect what it has watched. If you failed to follow a suit ten tricks ago, it remembers, and every hand it imagines for you honours that.

A SHUFFLE YOU CAN CHECK

Every deal comes from a seed. The rules engine is deterministic and audits itself at every step, counting the cards in play so a deal cannot quietly gain or lose one. Same seed, same deal, every time.

NO SIGN UP

Taasho never asks for an email or a password. There is nothing to create and nothing to remember. Open it and you are at a table.

Matches save themselves on your device as you play, so you can put your phone down mid trick and pick the hand back up later.

PLAYS WITH NO SIGNAL

All five games run entirely on your phone. Aeroplane mode, a dead spot on the train, a village with one bar of signal: none of it changes anything, because none of the solo play needs a network. Friend rooms, leaderboards and streaks sync when you are back in range.

BUILT FOR THE PHONE YOU HAVE

Taasho runs on Android 8 and above and is built to stay light on older and low memory devices. It is a card game. It should not need a flagship.

Free to play. No login, no password, no nonsense. Just the desi card games your family taught you.