The things people actually ask

Yes. Every part of the game — online matches, tournaments, practice, chat, voice and video — is free to play. Coins can be bought or earned by watching an ad, and they are never required for anything except a tournament entry fee, which the tournament's own organiser sets.

No — not now and not later. Coins buy tournament entry and gifts to other players, and nothing else. There is no cash prize and no way to withdraw.

This is not a choice we are keeping open. A game like this cannot legally pay cash prizes in Pakistan or India at all, and building a way out would put the app and every account on it at risk.

Prizes are sent by hand, not automatically. Your place and the coins it won stay on your entry card after the tournament ends, and the admin sends them from the tournament's own standings. If a day passes and nothing has arrived, message on WhatsApp — the amount is recorded on our side, so nothing is lost.

For online matches and tournaments, yes. Practice against the computer and two people sharing one phone both work with no connection at all.

You have two minutes to come back. Open the app again and tap Online Match — it takes you straight back into the game you were already in. After two minutes the match goes to your opponent. If both players drop, the match is cancelled and neither of you loses anything.

Every move gets one free minute. After that the turn is still yours — nobody's move is ever taken away — but each further minute costs you one point.

Sit on a move for three whole minutes and you lose the match. You are warned at one minute and again at two, so it never arrives without notice.

The board decides, never the clock. Whoever has more surviving points; if that ties, more surviving beads; if that ties, whoever captured last. There is no draw, and both phones and our servers always reach the same answer because none of them has to agree on a time first.

Yes. Open Players and search by their name or by their player number — the short id shown under everybody's name — then challenge them. If they are in a match already, the challenge waits rather than interrupting them.

Video is a ranking perk. The camera unlocks in the top 100 — and inside a tournament it also needs the quarter-final or later, so a top-100 player in an early round is still voice-only. The microphone unlocks in the top 500 or in any tournament round, and chat is open to everybody from the first day.

No. Until you press it, your phone is not set up to send sound at all — it is not a case of muting something that was already going out. Leaving the app or locking your phone releases the camera and microphone immediately, and neither ever runs in the background.

No. Chat is deleted when the match ends, and calls are never recorded or stored. A call goes straight between the two phones when they can reach each other; when they cannot — about one call in five — it is forwarded by a relay that cannot read it.

Yes, from inside the app: Settings → Delete my account. Your account and profile go immediately, and match records naming you are removed within 30 days. It is permanent — there is no recovery, and a new account starts from zero.

Your score is not read from anybody's phone. When a match ends, our servers play the whole game through again against the same rules the app plays by, work out the score themselves, and write it. A move that was not legal is refused and the account it came from is flagged. A changed app can send us anything it likes and gain nothing by it.

Every opponent's card has a report button, right there in the match. Reports are kept with the match they came from, so a pattern is visible rather than a single complaint.

It is finished and being tested; the Google Play listing is the last step. Message on WhatsApp and you will be told the day it goes up.

Not yet. The game is Android only today.