Choose a game
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Euchre
The Midwest and Ontario standard. Two partnerships, five tricks a hand, first to ten points — and the jack of the same colour as trump quietly becomes a trump too.
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Hearts
Take no points if you can help it. Every heart is one and the queen of spades is thirteen, and the lowest score wins — which is the thing that catches people out.
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Spades
Two partnerships, and a promise made before a card is played: say how many tricks you will take, then take them. Spades are always trump, missing the contract costs the whole bid, and taking too many quietly fills a bag bin that costs a hundred.
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Cribbage
Pegging, fifteens, runs and the crib, scored to 121 on a board you can read as well as see. You count your own hand, the way you would at a table.
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Sheephead
The Wisconsin classic, also called Schafkopf. Queens and jacks are trump, the picker takes the blind, and the jack of diamonds is a secret partner nobody admits to.
Why these exist
Most card games online cannot be played without sight. These are built the other way round: the state of the game is text first, and the pictures sit on top of it.
- Nothing is shown by sight alone. Every card, score and turn is also text.
- Nothing is marked as an application region, so browse, focus and forms modes work as they normally do.
- Turn your text size up and the layout follows, cards included.
- Every game can be played with the keyboard alone.
Every game runs in your browser and sends nothing anywhere until you open a table with other people. From then on it sends your moves and the name you chose, and nothing else. There are no accounts, and a table is a five-letter code that stops existing when everybody leaves.