Playcard gamesPlaying here
One player opens a table and reads out the six-character code; everyone else types it in on their own phone or laptop. The site deals, holds each player to the rules and keeps the score, and nobody sees anybody else's hand. Short of players, most tables let the host add a bot, which plays like anyone else and sees only its own cards. You are at one table at a time, and your seat waits for you if the tab closes or your phone locks.
Where the rules come from
Every game is written by hand and read through before it is published. The rules are fetched rather than built into the page, so a correction is in front of every reader as soon as it goes out — there is nothing to update and nothing to reinstall.
Six languages
The interface, the game names and the rules are all translated. Pick a language under Settings and the site remembers it.
The score keeper
A pad for the table you are sitting at, not a feature that needs an account. It stays in the browser you use it in and survives a reload, because losing the score to a stray refresh is losing the game.
Favourites and accounts
Browsing, searching, filtering, reading the rules and keeping score need no account at all. Nor does joining a game somebody invited you to: the code is enough, and you sit down as a guest. An account does two things: the games you star follow you from one device to the next, and a table you open is yours to run — which is why opening one, and sending a game in, are the parts that ask you to sign in first.
A game we are missing
Send it in from the submit page. Every submission is read before it becomes a catalogue entry, so it takes a while — which is the same reason the rules already here are worth trusting.
Get in touch
A rule we have got wrong, a game that deserves a better description, or anything else: playcardgames-support@googlegroups.com.