China Hand (ShedHead)

An all time classic card game! Better known as Shhhh-head or Palace.

Shed every card in your hand. Then the cards on your table. Then the ones you can't even see. Last one holding cards is the China Hand; don't be the China Hand!

China Hand is a fast, hand-drawn take on the classic shedding card game (also known as ShedHead or Palace). Every card is drawn right in the app, no photos, no stock art, just a warm, inked-parchment style that's entirely its own.

HOW IT'S PLAYED Play from your hand first. Once it's empty and the draw pile's gone, move to your three face-up table cards. Then the real nerve-test: three cards face-down, flipped one at a time, sight unseen - a bad flip means you take the whole pile.

Three cards break the rules on purpose:

• The 2 resets the pile, anything can follow it
• The 3 is glass, see straight through to the card underneath
• The 10 burns the pile and sends you again

Land four of a kind and the pile burns too. Play a 7 and whoever's next has to go equal or lower. Simple to learn, sharp enough to argue about afterward.

PLAY YOUR WAY

• Solo against AI, with three difficulty levels
• Local multiplayer with friends nearby, no internet required
• Online through Game Center

SIX WAYS TO DEAL Classic parchment-and-purple, Ink & Gold, Midnight Table, Emerald Sorcerer, Ashes & Embers, and Summer Tide; each with its own card backs. Summer Tide reworks the faces entirely. All cosmetic. None of them touch how the game plays.

FAIR BY DESIGN No ads. No third-party tracking. No pay-to-win, the optional Supporter unlock and China Token packs are purely cosmetic, and nothing in the deck ever changes because of what you've bought.

Deal yourself in. Try not to end up the China Hand.