About KARDX

Table games on the TV. Your phone is your seat.

What it is

KARDX turns a TV or laptop and the phones already in everyone's pockets into a card table. It's made for playing together in the same room: the big screen shows the table for everyone, and each phone holds one player's cards and buttons. Texas Hold'em is the first game, with more to come.

How a game night works

  1. Open KARDX on the TV or laptop, pick a game and create a table. It shows a QR code and the table's code.
  2. Everyone scans the QR code with their phone (or types the code on the KARDX home page) and picks a name. That's their seat.
  3. Play: the TV shows the cards on the table, the pot and whose turn it is; your phone shows your own cards and what you can do. Chips are play money, for fun only.
  4. Friends who aren't playing can watch from their phones and send reactions.

Step by step, with pictures: how to play.

There's no account to make and no app to install — it all runs in the browser. On an iPhone, adding KARDX to the Home Screen gives it the full screen.

Privacy

  • No accounts. The only thing you give is a name for your seat, and it can be anything.
  • Play money. Chips are for fun: there's nothing to buy and nothing to win.
  • Tables don't last. A table and everything in it — names, chips, cards — goes away from the server once it's been idle for a while. Your browser keeps a sealed copy of its last few tables for up to a year, so a game can pick up where it left off; only KARDX can read it.
  • A cookie for your seats. Your browser remembers which seats are yours, so you can get back to them.

Start a game