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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

New #game today! #escoba (or #scopa if you are Italian). Play now at cardgames.io/escoba/ and tell us what you think!

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Escoba

Play the classic Spanish card game Escoba online for free.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I have such a way with words sometimes.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

If you are or know a German, could you tell me if you/they prefer to play #Skat with or without #Ramsch, and if so what penalties and rules you use? No specific reason I am asking, but I really do want to know.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Our #rummy game is 10 years old today! They grow up so fast...

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I have a new hobby: it involves watching the Google Play robot automatically testing our app by aimlessly clicking around, failing to move checker pieces around, opening ads, and sometimes managing to play a single card before swapping to a new game.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Just before the weekend: a very interesting video from @polygon.com on the history of playing cards and why they are fun! Much like @doomquasar.bsky.social, we're addicted to solitaires too! Makes working at a card game website somewhat tricky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY6D...

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Nobody understands playing cards — not even the experts

YouTube video by Polygon

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Typicially in Iceland the 2nd of January sees many stores closed or with reduced hours due to inventory counting. Here at Cardgames 2nd of January is spent catching up on unread emails that piled up over the holidays. Happy new years!

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#Protip: Waking up early for work is a lot easier if you just don't go to sleep.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Trying to learn American Standard bidding over the last few weeks I have a newfound respect for #Bridge players. My brain - and Bill's - has started to smoke more than a little: a thousand rules to know who bids what and why, all that need to be boiled down into something the robots can understand!

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Bill and the gang have been playing hundreds of online games of #Canasta today, and with each game completed and each bug found I get more and more confident that the system works. Hopefully multiplayer Canasta will release later this week!

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

#Canasta! We have a #new #game now! Cardgames.io/canasta Go give it a try and then tell me what you think so I can make it better!

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Canasta

Play the classic card game Canasta online for free.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

I have some homework to get through

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

The worst bit when making #games is the bit where you have to make sure the thing looks decent on tiny phone resolutions: several hours of fiddling with #css, making incremental changes you're not sure actually made anything better. #gamedev

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Bill's hard at work moving some servers around, and while he's promised to be very careful there's always something that goes wrong. You can expect that cardgames.io might temporarily go down intermittently today while we finish our migrations.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Updating our IOS app: 1. Update pods 2. That fails, update Xcode 3. that fails, update MacOs 4. that fails, clear out the bin 5. Wait 30 minutes 6. go have lunch 7. Restore all your wallpapers 8. Update Xcode 9. Wait for all the Xcode supports 11. Hit a compile error 12. Give up and go home

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

This week on Facebook, multiple spam bots sent me a message saying that our page is being deleted for various silly reasons Previously at least the bots had the decency to name themselves "Meta Support" or "Account Security Agent", at this point they've just fully given up.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

I'm back from holiday and I have work to do: there are a 155 emails in my inbox that need answering.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

Merry Christmas from Cardgames.io!

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Over the last 30 days, over seven centuries of human attention got spent playing our games, split over millions of ~15 minute sessions. I need not tell y'all, but that is a lot of Solitaire.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

It only took 11 years, but face-down cards now automatically flip themselves face-up when playing solitaire. This daring code change took me all of ten minutes, a truly Herculean effort.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

This is a very late night post entirely unrelated to card games. Don't tell my boss: This is just our little secret.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

I pretend to be all smart and authoritative when talking about cardgames, but in reality I routinely double and triple check the rules of a game before answering the simplest of questions about them. We have 40+ games, I'll be damned if I remember the minutia of every rule.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Today I received an email where a person claimed to have played our game for 20 years. It was slightly undercut by the fact that the game in question was only released 10 years ago, but what's a decade between friends?

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

It's back! It's spoOoOoOky season once more. By popular demand, the halloween theme on Cardgames.io has been extended to last the full week before All Hallows Eve, from the 24th and to the 31st. Enjoy your mummies, hiding bats, and flying witches! Who's up for a game of Spades?

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Some of our users noted that when using our app offline not all graphics loaded. This was a mystery, as our build script is supposed to replace all CDN links with the app storage Today I discovered a typo that caused said script to ignore CSS files, and the numerous links contained therein.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Spent an unjustifiably long time fiddling with our build pipeline because I wanted to add a single package that wasn't playing nice with the rest of the system. All the package does is create a handful of fireworks one day a year. Priorities.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

While I try my best at being a professional when writing a serious email to business partners, the temptation to slip in a dad joke is ever-present.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Ever wondered what Bill sounds like? No? Well, you're going to find out anyway as he teaches the world how to play Rummy! We are commissioning a series of "How to play" videos, starting with Rummy. Let us know what you think! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGh_...

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Day 3 at Gamescom, and with each guest we encounter in amazing cosplay we're ever more realizing the missed oppertunity in not having made a giant Bill-head to wear. He'd have fit right in!

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Working on some #instagram posts featuring Bill, our mascot. I regret nothing.

A man in a suit sitting in an armchair in a well decorated lounge. In front of him is a table with some whiskey, a cigar, and some papers. His head has been swapped for the cartoon face of Bill, Cardgames.io's mascot.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

Hello! A new platform warrants an introduction. We're cardgames.io, a tiny game developer in Iceland who make and maintain a website with classic card games, solitaires, and dice games. We're great at killing a bit of time, and sometimes I post some wicked card-themed dad jokes on our socials.

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CardGames.io

Play classic card games for free. No sign-up or download necessary!

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