Cards with Friends
The lowest hand wins. The whole game is knowing when yours is it.
Least Count, playable in your browser. Take on the bots, pass one phone around the table, or send a link and play with friends wherever they are — two to four players, no install, no account.
Count: 12 — low enough to call.
A turn, end to end
Drop a card, take a card, or call it.
That is the entire loop. Everything else is arithmetic and nerve.
Drop
Put down a card you would rather not be holding. Two or three at once if they are the same rank — the fastest way to shed weight.
Take
Draw the top of the deck, or pick up one of the cards just dropped. Match the rank already showing and you take nothing at all, which is the only way your hand actually gets smaller.
Or declare
Think you are lowest at the table? Say so at the start of your turn, before you touch a card. Any count, any time.
Called it right
Nobody is under you. You score nothing, and everyone else writes down what they were caught holding.
Called it wrong
Somebody was strictly lower. You take a flat 70 — enough to lose a match on its own, which is why the call is the whole game.
What a card is worth
Seven cards each. Add them up.
Where it is up to
Built in the open, so here is the honest version.
The full game against bots at three difficulties, and pass-and-play on one device with a handover screen so nobody sees a hand that is not theirs. Rounds stack into a match to 100, 200 or 300; bust the target and you are out. Quit mid-round and it picks up exactly where you left it.
Playing with friends on their own phones. Open a table, send the link, and everyone plays from wherever they are — a whole match, with running totals, elimination and a winner. If somebody drops, a bot covers their seat until they are back.
A second game. The engine underneath was written to hold more than one, and the app already asks which one you want before it asks how you want to play it.
Chat, accounts and rankings. Every finished match is already kept with its players, their totals and the winner, so a ranking has history to start from rather than a blank slate.