About Turn Games

Turn Games is a small site for playing classic card games in a browser. Nine of them so far: Hearts, Spades, Euchre, Cribbage, Go Fish, Crazy Eights, Klondike, FreeCell and Spider. No account, no download, no install prompt. You pick a game and you are playing inside a second.

Why it exists

Most free card game sites have grown into something else — a launcher, a daily reward, a shop, three pop-ups before the deal. The games underneath still work, but you have to get past a lot to reach them. Turn Games is an attempt to keep only the part people actually came for.

That shapes most of the decisions here:

• It loads fast, on purpose. The whole app is a few tens of kilobytes, and the size is checked on every build. A game that takes ten seconds to open is not a game you play on a bus.
• Nothing is behind an account. There is no sign-up, because there is nothing to sign up for. Your deck and board preferences live in your own browser.
• Multiplayer is a link. Start a table, send the link, and whoever opens it sits down. Empty seats are filled by bots so a game never stalls waiting for a fourth.
• The rules are the real rules. Each game follows the standard rules people actually play by, and every game has a rules page written to be read in about two minutes.

Who makes it

Turn Games is built and run by one person as an independent project. It is funded by advertising, which is what keeps it free and account-free. Ads are kept to the edges of the page and never on top of a game in progress.

Getting in touch

Corrections to the rules, bugs, and feature requests are all welcome — see the contact page. Rules disputes in particular are worth writing in about: regional variations are real, and where a game has more than one common scoring convention the rules pages try to say so.