A warm, old-fashioned card room in your browser.
Seventeen classic card games, a fifty-one-layout solitaire parlor, and a table full of friendly opponents.
▶ Play now · The games · Solitaire parlor · Run it locally
Pull up a chair, pick a table and play the card games you grew up with: bid a Pinochle hand with your partner, shoot the moon in Hearts, peg your way to 121 in Cribbage, or settle into the solitaire parlor for a quiet hand on your own. No sign-up, no downloads, nothing to install. Open the page and the cards are dealt.
Dealer's Choice has its own look and sound throughout: the Parlor card deck and table felts, a cast of twelve characters to play against, a relaxed lounge-jazz soundtrack and original sound effects, all made for this game.
Bid it, call trump, win the tricks.
| Game | Players | What you're in for |
|---|---|---|
| Pinochle | 2 or 4 | Five ways to play: Partnership Auction, Two-Handed, Double-Pack, Partnership and Cutthroat |
| Bridge | 4 · partners | A full auction and play, with Rubber or Chicago scoring |
| Spades | 4 · partners | Bid your tricks, risk a nil or double nil, and watch out for bags |
| Hearts | 4 | Pass three, dodge the queen of spades, or shoot the moon |
| Euchre | 4 · partners | Bowers, loners and stick the dealer |
| Pitch | 4 · cutthroat | High, low, jack and game |
| Skat | 3 | The German classic: bid, pick up the skat and declare your game |
| Tarot | 4 | The French game of trumps, bouts and the Excuse |
Sets, runs and pegs.
| Game | Players | What you're in for |
|---|---|---|
| Gin Rummy | 2 | Build your melds and knock, or hold out for gin; Oklahoma Gin too |
| Canasta | 4 · partners | Two decks, wild twos and jokers, red threes and canastas |
| Cribbage | 2 | Fifteen-two, fifteen-four… pegging your way around the board to 121 |
| Crazy Eights | 2–4 | Eights are wild, with a very crazy mode |
Chips on the felt.
| Game | Players | What you're in for |
|---|---|---|
| Poker | 2–6 | Five-card draw: ante up, bet, raise, draw and bluff |
Quick games for every age.
| Game | Players | What you're in for |
|---|---|---|
| Go Fish | 4 | Got any fives? |
| Old Maid | 4 | Don't get stuck with the odd card |
| War | 2 | Flip, compare and declare war |
| Memory Match | 1–2 | Turn them over and find every pair |
Fifty-one solitaire layouts, each with its own How to play card, plus Undo, Auto-finish and a fresh deal whenever you want one.
| Layouts | |
|---|---|
| One deck | Aces Up · Baker's Dozen · Baroness · Beleaguered Castle · Betsy Ross · Bowling · Bristol · Calculation · Canfield · Clock · Cribbage Square · Eagle Wing · Eight Off · Eliminator · Euchre · Flower Garden · Fortress · Four Free · Four Seasons · Gaps · Golf · Klondike · Klondike (draw 3) · La Belle Lucie · Nestor · Penguin · Poker Square · Pyramid · Scorpion · Seahaven Towers · Shamrocks · Slide · Spiderette · Strategy · Triplets · Yukon |
| Two decks | Aces and Kings · Alhambra · Batsford · Colorado · Forty Thieves · Mount Olympus · Red and Black · Spider · Sultan · Terrace |
| Arcade | 3 Towers · Best 21 · Fast 21 · Pick 2 · Sum 11 (timed, scored rounds) |
- A cast of characters. Twelve computer partners and opponents, each with a portrait and a personality, who bid, meld and play by each game's real rules: careful Mabel, flashy Dex, the Colonel, chatty Rosa, Hank, Pip, Odette, gentle Gus, by-the-book Nova, the Captain, Lou and Ivy. Some have favourite games, so you may find Odette waiting at the Tarot table and the Captain at the cribbage board.
- The Parlor deck. A mid-century card design in cream, ink, brass and deep green, with double-ended court cards, its own jokers and a fully illustrated Tarot.
- Make the table yours. Six card backs and six table surfaces (green, oxblood and midnight felt, walnut, linen and slate), a classic drawn deck if you prefer, and your own portrait at the table. It's all under Table settings.
- Real table pieces. A dealer button, chip stacks at the poker table, a wooden cribbage board with brass and red pegs, a tray for passing cards and a trump marker on the felt.
- Music that follows you. Six original lounge-jazz tracks play in a shuffled order that carries on seamlessly as you move between the lobby and the tables, and never repeats a song back to back.
- Sounds of the table. Dealing, shuffling, tricks, chips and wins, with separate volume controls for music and game sounds.
- Remembers you. Your name, portrait, card style, card back, table and volumes are kept in your browser, and games in progress pick up where you left off.
- Plays anywhere. Desktop, tablet or phone, in any modern browser.
You need Node.js 20 or newer. There is nothing else to install.
git clone https://github.com/jimerb/Dealers-Choice.gitcd Dealers-Choice/web && npm startThen open http://localhost:4449. To run the test suite:
cd Dealers-Choice/web && npm testA small web app with no dependencies and no build step: plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript modules, served by a tiny Node server locally and by GitHub Pages online.
web/server.mjs local server
web/public/index.html site shell: hosts the music player and shows every screen in a frame
web/public/lobby.html the lobby
web/public/play.html the shared table that runs most of the card games
web/public/pinochle.html the Pinochle table
web/public/solitaire.html the solitaire parlor
web/public/js/games/ one rules engine and computer player per game
web/public/js/solitaire/ the solitaire engine and layouts
web/public/js/core/ cards, table, cast, table pieces, sound and music
web/public/js/skin.js card styles, backs and table surfaces
web/public/assets/ card art, felts, portraits, table pieces, sounds and music
web/test/ rules and engine tests
art/parlor/ source art, print-quality card masters and proof sheets
tools/art/ scripts that build the card deck, the table art and the sound effects
To rebuild the Parlor deck or the sound effects after changing their sources, run these from the repository root:
python3 -I tools/art/build_parlor.pypython3 -I tools/art/build_sounds.pyShuffle up and deal. ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦