Many Card GamesPlay Spit online
Spit in the browser, for nothing: open a table, send the code to whoever is playing, and let a bot take any chair nobody fills.
- 2 players
- Bots for empty seats
- Free
- Nothing to download
A free account opens the table. Friends you invite join without one.
How Spit is played here
The rules this table deals by. Everybody at the table sees the same lines before the first hand.
- Half a pack each: five piles of one to five cards, only the top of each face up, and the eleven left over are your spit pile.
- You both turn one card from your spit pile into the middle. Those two are the piles you play onto.
- No turns. Play any face-up card onto either pile if it is one rank above or below. Aces wrap round to kings, so the ranks have no ends.
- An emptied pile is a gap, and a face-up card may be moved into it — which uncovers whatever was under that one.
- Empty your layout and you take whichever pile you like; the other goes to your opponent. Empty it with nothing left to spit and the game is yours.
How it works
- Open a table. It gets a short code of its own.
- Read the code out, or send the link. Anyone you send it to sits down as a guest, without an account.
- Deal once everyone is seated — or give each empty chair a bot and start now.
How multiplayer Spit works
Playing Spit online with other people, step by step: the code, the seats, the table rules, and what happens when somebody drops out.
Inviting the other player
The host opens the table, which needs a free account, and shares its six-character code or the link from "Copy link". On a phone "Challenge a friend" stands beside it, and hands that invitation straight to Messenger, Instagram, Snapchat or whatever else you chat in. The other player picks a name and sits down as a guest; they do not need an account.
Spit here is for exactly two players. If your friend cannot come, the host can press "Add an opponent" to seat a bot instead.
The board
Both layouts are face up on screen, so you can see every card the other player could play. In the middle are the two piles, and beside each layout the number of cards left to spit.
Tap a card in your layout and then the pile it goes on. If the pile moved before your tap arrived, the card stays where it was — that is the race, not a fault.
When you are both stuck
When neither of you can play, the table says so and shows "Spit!". Either of you can press it, and both spit piles turn one card into the middle at once.
If both spit piles are empty and still nobody can play, the middle piles are gathered up and split back between you, so the game never stalls.
Rounds and the end
The player who empties their layout first chooses a middle pile; the other one goes to the other player. Both hands are shuffled and laid out again, with fewer piles for whoever holds fewer than fifteen cards.
The game ends when someone empties their layout with nothing left to spit, which means they hold no cards at all.
If somebody drops out
A player whose connection drops is shown as away and waited for twenty-five seconds. After that a bot plays their layout until they return, and opening the table again gives them their seat back.
Spit needs two players, so if one of you presses Leave the game is over. A table with no activity for six hours is cleared away.
Questions about playing Spit online
- How many can play Spit online here?
- 2 at one table. A bot can take any seat nobody fills, so a game never has to wait for somebody to turn up.
- Can I play Spit against the computer?
- Yes. Give any empty seat a bot and it plays like anyone else at the table, seeing only its own cards.
- Does it cost anything?
- No. Every table here is free, there are no ads, and nothing about you is sold or handed on.
- Do I need an account?
- Only to open a table. Joining one never needs an account — anyone you send the code to sits down as a guest.
- Does Spit work on a phone?
- Yes. It runs in the browser on a phone, a tablet or a computer, and there is nothing to install.