Quick Play: play cards online right now

Quick Play is how you play without organising anything: pick a game, you are seated at a table with space, and the game starts as soon as there are enough players.

No code, no invitations, no agreeing a time with anyone. If no table is open for that game, one is created and everyone arriving after you sits down with you.

No account needed either. If you have one, coins earned in these games go to your profile just as they would in a private room.

Once a public table has enough people, a short countdown starts before the deal to leave room for one more to arrive. And if that game has configurable house rules, no host decides them here: everyone votes for the one they want and the tally shows on each option.

What happens if you walk out of a public game

Abandoning a public game in progress has consequences, because there are people on the other side waiting for you to play. The first time is only a warning; if it happens again, the Quick Play lockout climbs from 5 to 15, 30, 60 and up to 180 minutes.

Warnings expire: after a day of playing without walking out of anything, the count goes back to zero. And this only ever applies to Quick Play, never to private rooms with a code: what happens in a room you invited your own people to is between you and them.

Games available in Quick Play

• El Presi - Get rid of your cards before anyone else and become the President.
• El Mentiroso - Lie about your cards... or get caught bluffing.
• Dedo Cagado - Don't be the one left holding the Ace of Clubs when everyone else runs out of cards.
• Cinco Vidas - Bet how many hands you'll win and nail it, or it'll cost you lives.
• El Cuadrado - Memorize, use the powers, and discard matching cards before anyone else to end with the lowest score.
• Continental - Seven hands of ever-harder sets and runs: go out before anyone else.
• Blackjack - Get as close to 21 as you can without going over and beat the house with chips to bet.
• Poker - Texas Hold'em with blinds and chips: make the best hand and take the pot.
• Ronda Robada - Build runs with the cards on the table... before someone steals them.
• Conquista - Deal the map out, roll the dice and take every territory on the board.
• Envite Canario - Call an envite on the rival team and win the stones you need to reach a chico.