Board
Carrom online
Flick the striker to pocket your coins and cover the red Queen. Official or family points, 1 v 1, 2 v 2 teams or four players, against bots, on one device or online.
Carrom guide
The classic flick-and-pocket board game: aim the striker, pocket your coins and cover the Queen.
What is Carrom?
Carrom is a tabletop game in which players flick a striker to knock wooden coins into the four corner pockets, with a red Queen worth extra. On DD Games you can play carrom free in your browser: 1 v 1, 2 v 2 teams or free-for-all, against bots, on one device, or online with 2 to 4 friends.
Carrom is a fixture of Indian homes, clubs and summer holidays: a square board, nine white and nine black coins, the red Queen and a heavier striker. DD Games brings the carrom board to your phone or computer with real physics, and the server replays every online shot so all players see exactly the same result.
You choose how to play. Official rules give each side a colour, score each board by the coins the losing side has left and make you cover the Queen. Family points let anyone pocket any coin: white 20, black 10 and the Queen 50. Play 1 v 1, 2 v 2 with partners sitting opposite, or as separate players; three players, or four playing alone, always use Family points. In online rooms the host can set house rules, such as a points match to 15, 21, 25 or 29, a different Queen bonus, or no Queen cover.
How to play Carrom
- Pick a table: 1 v 1, 2 v 2 teams with partners opposite, or separate players. Play against bots (Easy, Medium, Hard or Auto), on one device, or online.
- Choose the rules: Official (each side owns a colour) or Family points (every coin scores). Free-for-all games always use Family points.
- On your turn, slide the striker along your baseline between the two red circles. It cannot sit on top of a coin.
- Pull back from the striker like a slingshot: the direction you pull aims the shot the opposite way and the distance sets the power. A guide line shows where the striker will hit. Release to shoot.
- Shots go forward only, and your side of the board is always at the bottom of your screen.
Rules
- Official: the board has 9 white, 9 black and 1 red Queen. The side that breaks plays white, and teammates share a colour. Pocket one of your own coins and you shoot again.
- The Queen must be covered: after pocketing her, pocket one of your own coins in the same or the very next shot, or she goes back to the centre.
- Fouls end your turn and return one of your pocketed coins to the centre (owed if you have none yet): pocketing the striker, sinking the other side's last coin, or sinking your own last coin before the Queen is covered.
- Pocketing the striker also puts back your coins sunk in that shot, and the Queen if she went down in that shot or was still waiting to be covered.
- A board ends when a side pockets all nine of its coins. It scores 1 point for each coin the other side still has on the board, plus 3 for the Queen if the winner covered her and had fewer than 22 points. Play one board, or first to 25 points (at most 8 boards, then the most points wins).
- Family points: any coin scores for whoever pockets it, white 20, black 10 and the Queen 50 (cover her by pocketing any coin in the same or next shot). Pocketing anything keeps your turn. Pocketing the striker costs 10 points and returns that shot's coins. When the board is clear, the most points wins.
- Online, each shot has 30 seconds; if time runs out your turn passes. In a 2 v 2 game, a team that loses a player forfeits.
Tips and strategy
- Aim at the far side of a coin to cut it toward a pocket: the guide line shows the direction the coin will travel.
- Soft shots keep the striker out of the pockets. Save full power for the break and for scattering clusters.
- In Official rules, leave the Queen until you have a cover shot lined up: a missed cover sends her back to the centre.
- Move the striker along the baseline first; a straight shot is easier than a sharp cut.
- Near the end of an Official board, do not sink the other side's last coin: it is a foul and costs you a coin.
Questions
How do I play carrom online with friends?
Choose With friends to create a private room and share the room code. Two to four players can join, and the host picks 1 v 1, 2 v 2 teams or free-for-all, the rules and the match length before starting.
Can I play carrom against the computer?
Yes. Choose vs Bot for 1 v 1, a 2 v 2 with a bot partner, or a four-player game against three bots, at Easy, Medium, Hard or Auto.
What is the difference between Official and Family carrom rules?
Official rules give each side a colour, score boards by the coins the losing side has left and require the Queen to be covered. Family points let everyone pocket any coin for points: white 20, black 10, Queen 50.
What happens if you pocket the striker in carrom?
It is a foul and your turn ends. In Official rules one of your pocketed coins goes back to the centre, and in Family points you lose 10 points and that shot's coins come back.
How do 2 v 2 carrom teams work?
Partners sit opposite each other and share a colour (Official) or a score (Family). Turns go round the table, so the teams alternate.
Do I earn rewards for carrom?
Online matches earn XP and Gems like other online games, for both partners in a winning team. Signed-in players also earn a little XP for beating bots.
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