Play El Cuadrado online

Memorize, use the powers, and discard matching cards before anyone else to end with the lowest score.

Playing El Cuadrado online

El Cuadrado is a memory game wearing a card game’s clothes, and it works from 2 to 6. With few players it is a fairly pure memory duel; with 5 or 6 you get the chaos of anyone being able to throw a matching card at any moment.

You only see two of your four cards at the start of the round, and only for a few seconds. Everything after that depends on remembering what sits in each slot while Queens and Kings keep swapping cards on you.

A game runs over several rounds and ends when somebody reaches 100 points, so there is plenty of time to recover from a bad round. Lowest total wins, not highest.

What gets settled before the deal

Nothing to configure: four cards each, one look at the start, and the game ends when somebody reaches 100 points. From 2 to 6 players.

Your first game

You only see two of your four cards at the start of the round, and you pick which two. They are not the bottom ones and the table does not choose for you: it is your first decision of the game and it lasts a few seconds.

The clock is twenty-eight seconds, the second longest in the house, because here the turn goes on remembering rather than on deciding.

A game runs over several rounds up to 100 points, so one bad round is nowhere near fatal. Lowest total wins, not highest.

How to start a game

1. Create a room from this page and share the code on screen with whoever is playing.
2. Everyone opens House Of Decks, enters that code and takes a seat at the table.
3. Once there are between 2 and 6 of you, the host deals and the game begins.
4. If you would rather not organise anything, drop into Quick Play and play with whoever is waiting.

Deck: Standard 52-card deck · Players: 2 to 6 players

Full rules for El Cuadrado