The card game everyone learns on holiday

Shithead: the card game, online with friends

Get rid of your cards before everyone else does. The last one still holding cards is the Shithead. Play the computer, or send your friends a code and play together, on phones or computers. Free, no sign-up.

How to play Shithead

  1. Three, three and three

    Three cards face down, three face up on top, three in your hand. Swap your best cards face up before you start.

  2. Equal or higher

    Play on the pile with a card as high or higher, several of a rank at once. Can't go? Pick up the whole pile.

  3. 2s and 10s

    A 2 goes on anything and starts again from the bottom. A 10, or four of a kind, burns the pile.

  4. Down to the blind cards

    Hand gone, play your face-up cards, then your face-down ones blind. The last one left is the Shithead.

House rules? Jokers, stacking, transparent 8s, reverse and skip cards and more are all options. Also known as Palace, Shed or Karma.