Sport & games
Okey
The tile game of numbered colours played around every café table.
The Turkish name
Okey
Recording on its way.
The story
Okey is played with 106 numbered tiles in four colours, held on wooden racks. Four players draw and discard, racing to arrange their tiles into runs and sets, with one tile serving as the wild okey.
It is the most played game in Turkish cafés and a fixture of family evenings, and it lives on in countless phone apps.
At a glance
- Tiles
- 106
- Players
- Four
- Relative
- Rummy