About FreeCardGames

I'm Tim, from TimmyShips.com, and I built FreeCardGames on my own.

I started this site because most card game sites online feel the same: slow pages, pop-up ads stacked three deep, and a "spin the wheel" energy that has nothing to do with the game you came to play. I wanted something that felt more like real software and less like a content farm. Fast, clean, and built by someone who actually plays these games.

Every deal you get is seeded, which just means it's generated from a starting number instead of shuffled with no record kept. That number determines every card's position, so the same seed always produces the same deal. You can replay a tricky layout, or share the seed with someone else and know they're looking at the exact same cards.

The rules for each game live in their own small, self-contained piece of code, separate from anything you see on screen. The board just asks the rules what's legal; it never decides on its own. That code is covered by more than 300 automated tests that check things like "does this move actually follow the rules" and "does the game correctly know when you've won." When you tap the hint button, the site first searches possible future moves for one it can prove keeps a winnable game winnable; if it finds one, that's your hint. When the position is too deep to prove anything in time, you get its best judgment instead: a suggestion, not a guarantee.

There's nothing to install and no account to create. Your progress and settings are saved right in your browser, on your device; they never get sent to me. Come back later and it'll look the way you left it.

Contact

Found a bug, have a request, or just want to say hi? Email me at contact@freecardgames.com, or find the rest of what I build at TimmyShips.com.