Everything you need to sit down and play Swipe: getting to a table, how a turn works, scoring, and your account. Swipe uses the same sign-in as Euchre Live.
Getting to a table
Sign in, or just type your name. Guests can play right away. Sign in (or create a free account) if you want your Funtistics kept and to play with friends. If you already have a Euchre Live account, use it here.
Pick a table code. A random one is filled in for you. To play with people, everyone uses the same code.
Camera and microphone start off. Tick Camera on and Microphone on if you want to be seen and heard, or turn them on later with the Cam and Mic buttons. Whatever you choose is remembered.
Press Join table, then Copy link and send it to the people you're playing with, or invite friends.
Table size and rules. The first person at the table is the host. The host picks how many players (4 or 6), the target score (100 to 500 points), whether 10s are swipes (on unless turned off), and the cards: two regular decks, or the boxed Swipe game's three decks with special SWIPE cards (12 in hand). Then the host presses Start game. Seats nobody takes are played by robots.
Dropped out by accident? Reopen the same link (or reload the page) and you get your seat back. A robot plays for you if you've been gone more than 8 seconds, and hands the seat back when you return.
How Swipe works
Swipe (also called Swoop) is a race to get rid of all your cards. It's played with two regular decks shuffled together, 104 cards.
Everyone gets 11 cards in hand (9 with six players), and 8 on the table in front of you: 4 face down, with 4 face up on top of them. Everyone can see your face-up table cards.
Cards rank from Ace (low) up through 2, 3 … 10, Jack, Queen, King (high). Suits don't matter.
On your turn you play 1 to 4 cards of the same rank, from your hand, your face-up table cards, or both.
Equal or lower than the top card of the pile: your cards go on the pile.
Higher: you pick up the whole pile into your hand, and your cards start a new pile. You can play higher on purpose, even when you could go lower.
If the pile is empty, anything goes.
10 A 10 is a swipe: it can be played on any pile, any time. It clears the pile away and you go again, and you can keep going as long as you have cards to play. 10s have a small Swipe tab so they're easy to spot.
Four of the same on top of the pile (from one play or built up over several) is a swipe too: it clears the pile, and you go again. There can never be more than four of one rank on top of the pile.
Face-down table cards can only be played once the face-up card on top of them is gone. You turn one over without knowing what it is, and it must be played. If you have matching cards you can add them.
The moment someone has played every card (hand and table), the round ends.
Your turn, step by step
When it's your turn, your name and video glow gold.
Pick your cards. Click cards in your hand or your face-up table cards. They lift up with a mint outline 99. Picking a card of a different rank starts over with that card. Click a picked card again to put it back.
Press the yellow button. It says exactly what will happen, for example Play two Nines, Play two Nines (Swipe!) or Play a King and pick up 7.
Or turn over a face-down card. Once a face-up table card is gone, the face-down card under it glows with Turn over under it. Click it to flip it. If you have more of that rank you can add them, then press Play.
Cleared the pile? You go again right away.
Tick Hints at the top and the robot's choice is shown in pale blue.
Reading the table
The pile
In the middle. The cards on top that count (the run of the same rank) are bright; older cards are dimmed. Under it: how many cards are in the pile, and what's on top.
Cleared
How many cards have been cleared away by swipes this round.
23
On each name tag: that player's penalty points so far. Lower is better.
▮ 12
How many cards that player has in their hand.
Table cards
Next to each player: their face-up cards, and red backs for face-down ones still waiting . A dashed box is an empty spot.
SWIPE!
Flashes across the middle whenever the pile is cleared, by a 10 or by four of the same.
Scoring and winning
When someone goes out, everyone else scores penalty points for every card they still have, in hand and on the table:
Card
Points
Ace
1
2 to 9
Face value
10
50 (10 if the host turns off “10s are swipes”)
Jack, Queen, King
10
SWIPE card (boxed decks only)
20
The player who went out scores 0. Rounds keep going, with the lead moving one seat to the left each time, until someone reaches the target (500 points unless the host changed it). Then the lowest total wins. Between rounds everyone presses Ready for next round (or it starts by itself after 25 seconds).
Going out sets off a burst of fireworks, and the winner of the game gets fireworks and balloons.
Tips
Get rid of picture cards while you can. They cost 10 points each if someone goes out.
Saving a 10 is great for clearing a big pile, but it costs 50 points if someone goes out while you're holding it.
Starting a pile low makes life hard for the next player, who has to go equal or lower.
Watch how many of a rank are on top. If there are three Nines and you have a Nine, you clear the pile and go again.
Buttons along the top
Hints
Shows what a robot would play, in pale blue.
Settings
Card size and Video size sliders, sound effects on or off, and your avatar.
Chat
Typed messages to the table. A dot on the button means there's something new.
Friends
See where your friends are playing, join them, or invite them.
Funtistics
Your Swipe stats and the leaderboard.
Rules
A short version of the rules, and this table's size and target.
Feedback
Send a suggestion or report a bug.
Help
This page.
End game
Host only. Ends the game right away, say when the evening is running long. Whoever has the lowest score so far wins; the round being played isn't counted. Then anyone can press Play again.
Leave
Leave the table. If a game is going, a robot takes your seat so everyone else can keep playing.
Your settings are remembered on each computer or phone you use.
Camera, microphone and chat
Mic and Cam buttons (bottom left on a computer, under your cards on a phone) turn yours on and off. Red means off. They start off, and the game remembers how you left them.
Each other player's video has a Mute button. It only silences them for you.
When someone's camera is off, you see their avatar instead. Until you make one, yours is drawn from your name. To design your own, press My avatar on the join screen or Settings → Make my avatar: choose male or female, skin, hairstyle and colour, eyes, mouth, facial hair, hats, glasses, clothes and background, or press Surprise me. Signed in, it's saved with your account, so it follows you to the other game and to any device.
Hearing an echo? Someone has their speakers up near their microphone. Headphones fix it.
Your account
Create account on the join screen: a player name (3 to 20 letters or numbers, no spaces), your email, and a password of at least 6 characters.
Your email is only used to reset your password. It isn't shown to anyone.
Forgot your password? On the Sign in screen, press Forgot your password? and type your player name or email. You'll get an email with a link to choose a new one. The link works once, for an hour. Check your junk folder if it doesn't arrive in a few minutes.
Account (on the join screen once you're signed in) changes your email or password. You'll need your current password.
You stay signed in on that browser for 90 days. Changing your password signs you out everywhere else.
Friends
Open Friends and type your friend's player name, then Add.
Your friend does the same with your name (or presses Add back, since you'll show up under "Added you"). You're friends once you've both added each other.
Now you can see if they're online and which table they're at. Press Join to sit down with them.
When you're at a table, Invite sends them a pop-up with a Join button. If they're on the join screen, the invite shows up there instead.
Funtistics
Kept for signed-in players, separately from your Euchre stats. Every round and every finished game counts, including games against robots.
Games, Wins, Win rate
Finished games, how many you won (lowest total), and the percentage.
Streak now, Best streak
Wins (or losses) in a row lately, and your longest winning run.
Best winning score
Your lowest total in a game you won.
Rounds, Went out first
Rounds played, and how many you won by going out first.
10 swipes
Times you cleared the pile with a 10 (or a SWIPE card).
Four-card swipes
Times you cleared the pile with four of the same.
Pick-ups, Cards picked up
How often you picked up the pile, and how many cards that came to.
Points per round
Your average penalty points per round.
Full tables
Games with no robots.
The Leaderboard ranks players by wins, then win rate. Click a name to see their Funtistics.
The robots
Seats nobody takes are played by robots named after famous sci-fi robots: Robby, Gort, R2, Threepio, Marvin, Bender, HAL, WALL·E, K-9, Dalek, TARS and Data. They play sensibly but not brilliantly. If you join a game that's already going, you take over a robot's seat.
When something goes wrong
No camera or microphone
Your browser blocked it. Click the lock or camera icon at the left of the address bar, allow camera and microphone, then reload the page. Also check no other app (Zoom, Teams) is using the camera.
I can't see someone's video
Wait a few seconds, then have them reload. Some work and mobile-data networks block video between players; the game still works there, just without video.
"Connection lost"
The game reconnects by itself. If it doesn't within a minute, reload. Your seat is kept.
Things are too big or run off the screen
Use the sliders in Settings, or zoom your browser (Ctrl and + or −).
Best in a recent Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari, on a computer, tablet or phone.
Suggestions and bugs
Have an idea, or found something that isn't working? Press Feedback at the top of the game (or the link on the join screen), choose Here's a suggestion or I found a bug, and type away.
For a bug, say what you were doing, what happened, and what you expected. Leave Include my browser, screen size and table code ticked; it helps a lot.
Add your email if you'd like a reply. It's optional.