Play Donut Deck online

Everyone in the same room

Pass one device round the table. Add a seat per person, type names if you want them, and play. Between turns the screen covers itself and shows whose turn it is, so nobody sees a tray that is not theirs — the same privacy a hand of cards gives you, on a phone that everyone is touching.

This is the mode that behaves most like the physical game, and it is the one to use if you are teaching somebody. There is nothing to join and nothing to lose connection to.

Everyone somewhere else

Open a room and you get a four-letter code. Say it out loud, text it, paste it — anyone who types it into the same page is at your table. There is no account to make, no friend list, no invite email and nothing to accept.

Everyone sees the same board and only their own tray. Turn order, the deck meter and the Final Lap all work exactly as they do around a table, because it is the same engine: the online room is a way of sitting down, not a separate game.

What you need

• A browser. Any current one, on a phone, tablet, laptop or desktop. The board reflows for a phone held upright and for a laptop held sideways.
• Nothing else. No account, no app store, no plugin, no payment, no trial that ends. Every mode, every variant and every AI level is in the free version, because there is no other version.
• Someone to play with — optionally. Any empty seat can be a bot, so a game never depends on a second person turning up. See playing against the AI and solo play.

How many can play

2 to 10 in the browser. On a table the limit is boxes rather than seats — one box seats two, and every extra box adds two more — so a physical game has no upper bound at all. If you are buying for a group, the physical edition explains the maths.