Azi

Popular card game in Central Asia

Rules of the game

1. The game uses a deck of cards with three suits from 6 to Ace, and can be played with 2 to 6 players. A small fee is charged from the participants to enter the game, which, along with subsequent player bets, will go to the winner of the game.

2. Each participant is dealt 3 cards, a trump card is determined. If 4 cards are dealt, each player must discard the extra card before bidding begins. The situation when an Ace falls out as a trump card is called "Six on stage". In this case, the six of the trump suit becomes the highest card.

3. Bidding for the right to move first begins with the player next to the left hand of the winner of the previous game. If there is no winner yet, the bidding starts with a random player. This player makes a bet, and the other players during the bidding phase can fold their cards and exit the current game, level the bet and give up the right to move first, or make a higher bid than the previous highest bid, hoping for the right to move first.

4. Players' bids go clockwise, but no more than 3 times for each player.

5. If a player does not have enough funds to bet, he loses the opportunity to go first. If he wins the game as a result, he will only receive a portion of the total pot proportional to his wager. The rest of the money will be returned to the other players in accordance with their share in the bank.

6. The player who wins the bidding moves first with any card, the other players take turns beating his card. This can only be done with a card of the same suit, even if it has a lower value, regardless of whether there are trump cards. If there is no card of the same suit, a trump is used; if there is no trump, any card is discarded.

7. When all players have taken their turn, the player with the highest card wins that round. The winner of the round gets the first move in the next round.

8. To become the winner of the game and receive the entire bank, it is necessary to win 2 rounds. If there is no winner after 3 rounds, the game starts again from the beginning. This situation is called "Azi". In Azi, the collected bank of bets is carried over from the previous game.

Features of the game implementation

The human mind looks for patterns in everything, even if there are none, so it may seem that you are being dealt bad cards on purpose. But in fact, all players are dealt completely random cards. In the process of shuffling cards, industrial cryptographic algorithms are used and the program does not analyze which cards will fall to each player. Don't believe those who say otherwise in the comments!