Istaka Okey

A corner table in a tea house, a wooden rack in front of you and three regulars who never lose track of the pile: Selin plays by feel, Cevat counts the tiles, and Nermin watches everything you pick up.

Okey, the Turkish tile rummy, against computer players or friends online. Draw, discard, and finish first with runs, sets or seven pairs.

Each player holds 14 tiles on a rack; the dealer starts with 15 and opens by discarding one. On your turn, draw the top tile from the pile in the middle or take the tile the player on your left just discarded, then discard one tile to your right; a tile taken from the left cannot be discarded again on the same turn. Tap a tile to lift it and tap it again to discard, or drag it to your discard spot. Drag tiles along the rack to arrange them, or sort them with Runs, Sets and Pairs. The tile one above the face-up indicator, in the same colour, is the okey (when the indicator is a 13, the 1 of that colour is the okey): both okey tiles are wild and carry a gold rim. The two clover tiles are not wild: they stand for the okey's number and colour. You finish when your other 14 tiles all fit in runs (three or more of one colour in a row, 12-13-1 counts but 13-1-2 does not) or sets (three or four of one number in different colours), or in seven pairs of two identical tiles; Finish lights up when your hand is complete. A finish scores 2 points, doubled for seven pairs and doubled again when the tile you finish with is an okey. Showing the indicator's twin on your first turn scores 1. If the pile runs out, nobody scores that hand. The first player to 7 points wins the match, and the daily challenge deals everyone the same hands. Keys: Space or D draws from the pile, T takes the discard on your left, the left and right arrows lift a tile and Enter discards it, R, S and C sort into runs, sets and pairs, F finishes. Winning a match opens hard mode, where all three opponents play at full strength. Play with a friend: create a game and send the link; up to four people sit at the table and bots take the empty seats. Partners mode is eşli okey, two against two: the player across the table is your partner, a finish or an indicator point by either of you scores for your team, and the first team to 7 points wins the match.