Rook
Kentucky Discard
Free
3.5.0for iPhone, iPad and more
9.5
1K+ Ratings
fishdog.net
Developer
23.3 MB
Size
Oct 21, 2023
Update Date
Entertainment
Category
4+
Age Rating
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About Rook
Rook is a popular trick-taking card game using a special card deck numbered from 5 to 14 (and optionally 1) in 4 suit colors, plus a Rook card. In this app, the Rook card is a castle chess piece and the cards are designed to be color-blind friendly.
Dealing: Deal passes around table for each hand, to the left. Dealer deals 9 cards to each player, and 5 cards to the widow in the middle of the table.
Bidding: Players bid for the right to name the trump suit. The player to the left of the dealer starts the bidding at 70 (or passes), and bidding proceeds to the left, usually in 5 point increments. A player that passes is out of the bidding for that hand.
Widow, Naming Trump: The high bidder collects the 5 widow cards (which are shown to all players), names a trump suit for the hand, and discards 5 cards from her hand (not shown to the other players). The 5 discards can include point cards which will, depending on your settings, go to either the high bidder or the winner of the last trick.
Tricks: The dealer (or the high bidder, you can change this) leads the first trick. Play proceeds to the left until all 4 players have played one card. Players follow suit unless they are out of that suit (or play the Rook card to win a trick with lots of points). If a player cannot follow suit, any card may be played. If there were no trump cards played on a trick, high card in the lead suit wins the trick. If trump cards were played on the trick, the highest trump card wins the trick. The trick winner pulls in the cards (adds them to his won tricks pile), and leads the next trick. The Rook card is the highest card of the trump suit. The ranking of cards from high to low is Rook-14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5.
Hand results: Both teams count the points from their won tricks piles: Rook card is worth 20; 14 and 10 cards are worth 10 each; 5 cards are worth 5. The other cards count nothing. If the bidding team did not score enough points to cover its bid, its score decreases by the bid amount.
Winning: First team to 300 points (or to be 300 points ahead) wins the game.
A paid Rook Gold app with no ads is also available on the App Store.
Dealing: Deal passes around table for each hand, to the left. Dealer deals 9 cards to each player, and 5 cards to the widow in the middle of the table.
Bidding: Players bid for the right to name the trump suit. The player to the left of the dealer starts the bidding at 70 (or passes), and bidding proceeds to the left, usually in 5 point increments. A player that passes is out of the bidding for that hand.
Widow, Naming Trump: The high bidder collects the 5 widow cards (which are shown to all players), names a trump suit for the hand, and discards 5 cards from her hand (not shown to the other players). The 5 discards can include point cards which will, depending on your settings, go to either the high bidder or the winner of the last trick.
Tricks: The dealer (or the high bidder, you can change this) leads the first trick. Play proceeds to the left until all 4 players have played one card. Players follow suit unless they are out of that suit (or play the Rook card to win a trick with lots of points). If a player cannot follow suit, any card may be played. If there were no trump cards played on a trick, high card in the lead suit wins the trick. If trump cards were played on the trick, the highest trump card wins the trick. The trick winner pulls in the cards (adds them to his won tricks pile), and leads the next trick. The Rook card is the highest card of the trump suit. The ranking of cards from high to low is Rook-14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5.
Hand results: Both teams count the points from their won tricks piles: Rook card is worth 20; 14 and 10 cards are worth 10 each; 5 cards are worth 5. The other cards count nothing. If the bidding team did not score enough points to cover its bid, its score decreases by the bid amount.
Winning: First team to 300 points (or to be 300 points ahead) wins the game.
A paid Rook Gold app with no ads is also available on the App Store.
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What's New in the Latest Version 3.5.0
Last updated on Oct 21, 2023
Old Versions
Adds support for latest devices and OS; minor bug fixes.
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Version History
3.5.0
Oct 21, 2023
Adds support for latest devices and OS; minor bug fixes.
3.4.3
Jan 17, 2023
Minor bug fixes.
3.4.2
Jan 14, 2023
Minor bug fixes.
3.4.1
Nov 1, 2022
Minor bug fixes.
3.4.0
Sep 22, 2022
Support for new devices. Minor bug fixes.
3.3.0
Sep 29, 2021
Minor bug fixes, support for new devices, Hindi language support.
3.2.0
Aug 13, 2021
Adds Replay Hand button to hand result alert.
3.1.0
Jul 24, 2021
Fixes bug that caused some player hands to be dealt with no points, despite redeal required in settings.
3.0.2
Mar 30, 2021
Support for newest devices; logic improvements; bug fixes.
2.6.0
Oct 23, 2020
Adds support for new devices.
2.5.3
Apr 10, 2020
Robot logic and user interface improvements, bug fixes.
2.5.2
Apr 2, 2020
Minor bug fixes.
2.5.1
Mar 19, 2020
Fixes VoiceOver bug that caused cards to not announce their values; fixes hand result dialog covering the widow cards; minor bug fixes.
2.5.0
Mar 12, 2020
Smarter robots, bug fixes, appearance update.
2.2.0
Jan 11, 2020
Robot logic improvements.
2.1.0
Dec 26, 2019
Logic fixes, localization improvements.
2.0.7
Nov 19, 2019
Fixes bug that would turn off your music.
2.0.5
Nov 15, 2019
Animation and game speed improvements. Minor bug fixes.
2.0.3
Nov 7, 2019
Fixes bug causing sounds to play regardless of mute switch position.
2.0.2
Oct 17, 2019
Robot bid winner chooses better discard cards; sound fixes.
2.0.1
Sep 27, 2019
Minor bug fixes, support for new devices.
2.0.0
Sep 19, 2019
Dark mode support.
1.9.1
Sep 2, 2019
Robot trick logic improvements.
1.9.0
Aug 1, 2019
Logic improvements and more language support.
1.8.0
May 20, 2019
Robot play improvements.
Rook FAQ
Click here to learn how to download Rook in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Rook.
iPhone
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
Rook supports English, French, German, Hindi, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
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