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KozelThe card game where a six beats every ace on the table.

Twelve of the twenty-four cards are trumps, one player takes on the other two every round, and the first to twelve penalty marks is the goat. Play against two AI opponents, or against your friends online. No ads, no account.

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Free on Windows and Linux. On the App Store, Google Play and the Mac App Store.

One against two, twelve times over

The game as it is actually played, rebuilt for modern phones, tablets and desktops.

  • 01

    Take the widow, or refuse it

    Whoever holds the Jack of clubs owns the three cards in the middle. Take them and three of yours go back; refuse and their points count to you anyway, sight unseen. Either way you play the round alone against the other two.

  • 02

    Four levels of opponent

    Easy, Normal and Hard, plus Master — a neural network that trained against itself for hours and plays a genuinely different order of game.

  • 03

    Online multiplayer

    Create a private room and share the code, or hit Quick Match. Empty seats are filled with AI, so the game always starts.

  • 04

    Provably fair deals

    In multiplayer the server publishes a cryptographic hash of every shuffle before the deal and reveals the seed afterwards, so you can check for yourself that no deck was rigged.

  • 05

    Nought is not nothing

    Thirty points costs four marks and thirty-one costs two — but taking no points at all costs nothing, because you were never in the round. The scoring rewards knowing which of those you are playing for.

  • 06

    Learn as you play

    The first deal explains the trumps, which is the one thing everybody gets wrong to begin with. Turn the explanations off when you stop needing them.

  • 07

    No account, no fuss

    Single-player works fully offline and saves your game automatically. Multiplayer needs just a nickname — never an account.

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    English and Russian

    Fully localised interface and rules. The game follows your device language, or set it manually.

Half the deck is trumps

Every club is a trump. Every Jack is a trump. Every Queen is a trump. That is twelve of the twenty-four cards, and they are one suit for the purpose of following — the Queen of diamonds is not a diamond, it is a trump.

The six of clubs is the highest card in the game. A card worth zero points beats everything on the table — which is the joke the game is named after. Read the full rules →

The trump order · weakest to strongest

K♣
4 points
10♣
10 points
A♣
11 points
J♦ J♥ J♠ J♣
2 each
Q♦ Q♥ Q♠ Q♣
3 each
6♣
worth nothing

Screenshots

The main menu on the olive felt
Three taps to a deal
The rules screen, section by section
The rules, in the app
Settings: difficulty, table agreements, media and data
Tune it your way
Multiplayer screen with display name and room code
Rooms & quick match
The full version screen listing what it adds
One purchase, no subscription
The main menu in Russian
Полностью на русском

Your table, your agreements

  • Private roomscreate a room, share the code, deal the cards.
  • Quick matchone tap to join an open table.
  • AI fills the gapsstart with one friend; the computer takes the third seat.
  • Reconnect safelydropped connection? Your seat waits for you.
  • No peekingopponents' cards never reach your device, so there is simply nothing to cheat with.

Platforms

Kozel is free on Windows and Linux, and out on the App Store, Google Play and the Mac App Store.

The Windows build includes Master, premium felts, custom rules and hosting online rooms — no purchase required. Questions? Contact support.