Set the table, send a link, play. Choose the rules — podkidnoy or perevodnoy — and Cards Cafe gives you an invite link: your friend opens it, picks a name and joins your game. Free, in the browser, with no sign-up and nothing to install. Up to four friends play at one table, and anyone who only wants to watch can follow the game with every hand face down.
Choose the rules on this page and create a table. You get a link — send it in any messenger. Your friend opens it, enters a name and sits down, and the cards are dealt.
No. You both play in the browser on a phone or computer, with no registration and no download. The link is all it takes.
Yes — tap "Find an opponent" in the lobby and you are paired with another player. If nobody is free, a bot takes the seat, so you never wait long.
Up to four. Send the same link to everyone: once two have sat down, the cards are dealt in 60 seconds, and each friend who sits down after that restarts the count — or at once when anyone taps “Deal now”. The fourth seat deals right away.
They take a seat on the bench and watch the game — every hand face down — and are dealt into the next one; a game lasts 2–4 minutes. A fifth friend can watch the game, or open a table of their own in one tap.
Yes. Open the invite link and tap “Just watch”: you see the table, every card played and how many cards each player holds, but nobody's hand, and you take no chair. The players see who is watching. If a chair is free, “Take a seat” deals you into the next game.
25 seconds to attack or defend; with 3–4 players, 8 seconds to throw in — no answer counts as a pass. With two players the game waits 30 seconds for a friend who lost connection, then a bot plays for them until they are back. With 3–4 the clock keeps running, and after two missed turns a bot plays that hand until the player is back. Whoever leaves on purpose has their hand played out by a bot, and their seat frees up when the game ends.
The next game is dealt as soon as everyone asks for it, or 20 seconds after two have — and everyone still at the table plays it. A friend who lost connection is waited for; whoever is still away when it is dealt, or got up, sits it out on the bench. Two who are ready can also deal at once with “Deal now”. With 3–4 players only one person loses, the durak, and the table keeps count of who has been the durak how many times.
Yes. Between games anyone at the table can start a tournament of 3, 5 or 10 games. In each game whoever goes out first gets a point for every player still holding cards, and the durak gets none. After every game everyone sees the same standings, and the last game crowns the champion; fewer times as the durak breaks a tie. It works for two players too.