Medium Standard
Mendikot
Capture all four 10s — or stop your opponents from doing it.
Mendikot is the premier card game of Maharashtra and Gujarat, India. The goal is deceptively simple: capture all four 10s. Capturing the four 10s results in a Mendikot — a shutout victory worth double. Strategy revolves entirely around protecting and hunting the Tens.
🎯 Objective
Capture all four 10s to win a Mendikot, or capture the majority of the 10s to win the round.
🃏 Setup
- Use a standard 52-card deck. Four players in two partnerships, partners sitting opposite.
- Deal all 13 cards to each player.
- The player who wins the first trick determines the trump suit from the card they lead.
▶ How to Play
- The player left of the dealer leads the first trick with any non-trump card.
- Trump is fixed after the first trick: the leader's card's suit after the first trick establishes trump (OR the dealer's last card — varies by local rules).
- Players must follow suit; if void, play any card including trump.
- Highest trump wins if any trump played; otherwise highest of led suit wins.
- Play all 13 tricks.
📊 Scoring
After all tricks: count how many 10s each team captured. Team with 3–4 tens wins the round. Mendikot (all four 10s): winning team gets double points, or wins the round outright. First team to win an agreed number of rounds wins.