Rooftop Pocket Club

Your goal

Play carrom on six original Mumbai rooftops. Cover the queen, earn eighteen Tour stamps and collect six postcards. Play a Quick Board or a full Classic Match, in singles or local doubles.

Start your first session

Ivory belongs to the breaking team. Indigo belongs to the other team. Singles opponents sit opposite; doubles partners sit opposite and share coins. Doubles turns pass to the player on the right. A break that touches no coin allows up to three attempts. Pocketing the striker on an untouched break passes the turn without a due. You may claim the queen after pocketing an own coin, with no unpaid due. Cover it in the same shot or your immediately following shot. A missed cover returns the queen. If all nine own coins are still on the board, queen plus your first coin needs another cover. Queen plus two or more own coins covers immediately. A returned due can also restore all nine.

A useful decision to practice

A board winner receives one point per opponent coin remaining, plus three for a queen covered by the winner. In Classic, a team already on 22 points receives no normal queen bonus. Special unclaimed-queen penalties reduce to one. Quick Board is one rack. Tour and Practice are best of three boards. Classic is best of three games, each to 25 points or the leader after eight boards; a tied eighth needs an extra board. Seats change between games. In game three they change again after board four or either team reaches 13 points, whichever happens first. Keyboard: Left/Right move the striker; A/D adjust aim; Up/Down change power; Space or Enter flicks; Escape cancels a pull or pauses. Every shot is also available through labeled controls.