Card Commons is a collection of 66 card games that run entirely in your browser. It showcases the variety of games you can play with just a deck of cards, from trick takers and shedding races to poker variants, deck builders, duelers, deduction games, and dungeon crawlers.
There’s no account to make and no game server to connect to: the rules, the opponents and your saved game all live on the device you’re reading this on.
Some of these are my own designs. Some are traditional games that belong to everybody: Hearts, Cribbage, Durak, Schnapsen. The rest are games by other designers, built here with credit and, where their rules are published, a link to them; every game page names its designer at the bottom.
Each game page carries the full rules, and most offer a hint that suggests the move a strong opponent would make.
A game in progress, your record for each game and your favorites are kept in your own browser’s local storage. Nothing is uploaded unless you send a message. Nothing is tracked, and clearing your browser data clears all of it. The Recommended tab is worked out on your device, from the games you play here.
On a phone, open the site and use “Add to Home Screen”. It installs as an app, and solo and pass-and-play then work without internet.
Get in touch if you find a bug, disagree with a ruling, or have a game you’d like to see here.
This website is an independent, non-commercial project for playing card games online using a standard deck of playing cards.
Some of the games available on this website were created or published by other people or organizations. Unless otherwise stated, this website isn’t affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the original creators, publishers, or rights holders of those games.
Game names, trademarks, and other intellectual property belonging to third parties remain the property of their respective owners. Where the creator or source of a game is known, we endeavor to provide appropriate attribution.
The rules presented on this website have been independently written and may differ in wording or interpretation from rules published elsewhere. We don’t reproduce third-party rulebooks, artwork, or other copyrighted materials unless we have permission or a license to do so.
The software, interface, original artwork, and other original materials created specifically for this website are the property of the website’s creators unless otherwise indicated.
The website uses representations of ordinary playing cards and card-game mechanics. No ownership of the underlying game concepts or standard playing-card designs is claimed.
If you believe that material on this website infringes your copyright, trademark, or other rights, please contact us with details of the material in question. We’ll review the matter and, where appropriate, make corrections or remove the material.
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Games in progress, game records, stats, favorites, and settings are all kept in this browser.
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