Mindi (MendiCot) - Free Indian Card Game.

The game is also popular as Mindi, Mindu, Mendicot, MendiKot, MindiKot , Dehla Pakad, etc.

Mindi is the Most Popular, Traditional, Time Passing game. People of India loves to play mendicot for countless hours with their Family & Friends.

Mendicot game is considered to be a game for smart people and needs some strategy to win it.

What is in Game & How to Play

There are four players in two teams, partners sitting opposite. Deal and play are anticlockwise.

A standard international 52-card pack is used. The cards of each suit rank from high to low A-K-Q-J-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2.

The Deal and Making Trumps

The first dealer is chosen by drawing cards from a shuffled pack - it can be agreed that the player who draws the highest or the lowest card deals. The cards drawn can also be used to determine the partnerships, the players who draw the highest cards forming a team against the players who draw the lowest cards. Subsequently, the dealer is always a member of the losing team of the previous deal - see winning.

The dealer shuffles and deals 13 cards to each player: first a batch of five to each and the remainder in batches of four.

There are several different methods for choosing the trump suit (hukum) - the players should decide before the start of a session which will be used. Here are three possibilities:

1. Random hukum

- After the dealer shuffles the cards the player to right randomly draws a card and displays it to all the players. That suit (hearts, spades, diamonds, or clubs) is trump for the deal. The randomly selected card is returned to the pack and then the dealer deals the cards.

2. Band hukum (closed tump)

- The player to the dealer's right selects a card from his or her hand and places it on the table face down. The suit of this card will be the trump suit.

3. Cut hukum.

- Play begins without choosing a trump suit. The first time that a player is unable to follow suit, the suit of the card that he or she chooses to play becomes trump for the deal. (Playing a trump on a plain suit lead is known as cutting.)

The Play

The player to the dealer's right begins by leading any card to the first trick. Players must follow suit if possible; a player who is unable to follow suit may play any card. A trick that contains no trumps is won by the highest card of the suit led. If any trumps are played, the highest trump wins. The winner of the trick gathers the cards, adds them to the pile of tricks won by his or her team, and leads to the next trick.

Scoring

The side that has three or four tens in its tricks wins the deal. If each side has two tens, then the winners are the team that won seven or more tricks.

Winning by capturing all four tens is known as mendikot. Taking all thirteen tricks is a 52-card mendikot or whitewash.

Dealer

If the dealer's team loses, the same player continues to deal unless they lose a whitewash (all 13 tricks), in which case the deal passes to the dealer's partner.

If the dealer's team wins, the turn to deal passes to the right.

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