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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.

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Rook Pros

✓ RookFun game and absolutely addictive. Don’t trust your partner to always play the right card. She /he can cause you to go set or keep you from setting your opponent. This is an issue to me bc I’m very competitive. So sick and tired of my partner setting us by betting on a hand he doesn’t have. This game should be more real like. Come on you geeks. Make this game more real. If there was another room game I’d get rid of this one..Grneyes5563Version: 2.6.0

✓ Rook lead offI can’t tell you how many times the other players lead out with a 1 at the beginning only to get it trumped by the opposing team. GET YOUR TRUMPS IN FIRST is always the best practice. Please correct this. No expert Rook player does that!.GrannaSue6Version: 2.5.3

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Rook Cons

✗ The play of the computer partner is terrible!I like playing rook but the way the partner plays in this game is terrible. He gets us set all the time. I have never played with a live partner that plays this bad. Would be nice if I could customize the players actions or they at least emulated how an actual person plays the game. It’s very frustrating to lose when you shouldn’t and would never have in an actual game..ChrispogoVersion: 2.6.0

✗ My partner is an idiot!The cpu partner gets us set at least half the time it wins a bid. It then holds onto point cards at opportunities to set the other team, just to hoard them until the end when they get trumped. It’s ridiculous! Other than the unnecessary test of my distress tolerance, this game is really good, with an awesome interface and great in game features!.WaljonpVersion: 2.2.0

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Is Rook legit?

✅ Yes. Rook is 100% legit to us. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 5,561 Rook user reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, AppSupports Legitimacy Score for Rook is 88.6/100.

Is Rook safe?

✅ Yes. Rook is quiet safe to use. This is based on our NLP analysis of over 5,561 user reviews sourced from the IOS appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.7/5. AppSupports Safety Score for Rook is 92.1/100.