Play cards & dice

Cards & Dice covers the table games. The real game always happens with real cards and dice; the app keeps the clock, keeps score where there's a score to keep, and puts the winner on the leaderboard.

The games

Some games just want a clock and a winner. The rest keep score:

• Poker, Blackjack, Zilch — clock and winner. Play it out, hit End Game, tap whoever took it.
• Euchre — two pairs, first to 10 (or 11). Tap +1, +2 or +4 as each hand is settled and it calls the game.
• 41 (Alba Mayer) — every player carries their own score. Tap the small numbers, or Enter score for a bigger one — plus for a bid made, minus for one missed. First past 41 (or 44) is home.
• Liar's Dice — five or six dice each. Tap Lost a die on whoever loses the challenge; the app handles the eliminations and calls the last player standing.
• Yahtzee — a full scorecard for every player. Tap any box to score it, and the upper bonus, extra-Yahtzee bonuses and grand totals do themselves.

Set up a game

1. Open the Cards & Dice tab and start a game.
2. Pick a game. Tap View rules on any card for a plain-English refresher.
3. Who's playing? — select 2 or more players. Deal order follows selection order, and you can shuffle it. Euchre asks for exactly four and then splits them into pairs, randomised for you and tappable if you'd rather choose.
4. Choose the rules where the game has a choice — first to 10 or 11 at Euchre, 41 or 44, five dice or six.
5. Start game — the clock starts running while you play at the table.

Finish and log

1. When the table's decided it, hit END GAME. In the scored games the button turns green the moment somebody's home, and the winner is already picked for you.
2. Confirm the winner — the scored games show each player's final number next to their name.
3. Confirm & log game. The result lands in the history, the leaderboard updates, and you can go straight into a rematch from the winner screen.

Backing out of the winner pick resumes the clock, so a false alarm doesn't cost you playtime stats.

Rules at the table

Every game ships with a quick plain-English rules summary — hand rankings for Poker, dealer rules for Blackjack, the Zilch scoring table, the bowers at Euchre, the bidding and scoring at 41, and the full Yahtzee card. Open them from the game cards during setup, or from How the games work on the Cards & Dice home screen.

Stats

Cards & Dice games count wins, losses, win rate and average playtime on each player's profile, plus a breakdown of which games they've played. The cave's best record holds the Card Shark badge on the leaderboard.