Deckhand: Tabletop Games

Card games on the phones already in the room. War, Bull, Ride the Bus, Crazy Eights, Go Fish, Tri Peaks, and Aces Up.

Deckhand is a card game app that turns the phones in the room into a deck of cards. Your phone is your hand. The games are the ones you play at a kitchen table.

Start a game, share the code, play.

THE GAMES

War - 2 players. High card wins. Ties mean war.

Bull - 2 to 10 players. Lie about your cards. Get caught, eat the pile.

Ride the Bus - 2 to 8 players. Guess wrong, take points. Last one holding rides the bus.

Crazy Eights - 2 to 8 players. Match suit or rank. Eights are wild.

Go Fish - 2 to 6 players. Ask for a rank, collect books of four.

Tri Peaks - 1 player. Solitaire with a twist: clear three peaks of cards, one rank up or down at a time.

Aces Up - 1 player. Quiet solitaire: clear the table down to four aces.

Popular house rules are built in, so the table plays the version your family already argues about.

HOW A TABLE WORKS

One phone starts the table. Everyone else joins with a code from their own phone. Each player's hand stays on their own screen, so nobody is reading over a shoulder and nobody is stuck holding the deck.

Deckhand deals and keeps score. You handle the accusations.

New to a game? The rules are a tap away, so nobody has to remember how Ride the Bus goes before the first hand.

WHEREVER YOU END UP

A hotel lobby. The back seat on a long drive. A lounge on a cruise ship. The kitchen table after dinner. A bar with a group waiting on a table. The moment somebody says they wish they had a deck of cards, you already do.

Deckhand is built for playing together in person, on the phones everyone already has.

House rules: https://caratozzolo.dev/deckhand/rules Privacy: https://caratozzolo.dev/deckhand/privacy