A progressive rummy card game

Eight hands.
One goal each.
Zero shortcuts.

8 Hand is a fast, social rummy variant for 3–6 players. Every hand hands you a new meld to build toward — sets, runs, and the wild 1s that fill either — and the lowest score after all eight wins.

Get 8 Hand on the App Store iPhone, iPad & Mac Solo · Local network · Online

See it in action

Straight from the app, no staging.

8 Hand main menu, showing the fanned-card logo above Solo Play, Local Network Game, Play Online, and How to Play, with Stats, Achievements, Leaderboards, and Settings buttons.
Main menu — start a solo, local, or online game.
An in-progress 8 Hand game table, showing the hand's goal, three opponents' melds and the player's own, the draw and discard piles, and the player's hand.
The table — draw, meld, and discard, with every opponent's progress in view.
The 8 Hand rules screen, listing the object, deck, turn structure, and all eight hand goals.
How to Play — the full rules, generated from the same goals the app enforces.

How a turn works

The rhythm is simple enough to teach in a minute — the eight goals are what keep it interesting for eight hands straight.

01 · DRAW

Take a card

Drag a card off the draw or discard pile, or just tap to draw it — anyone can steal the discard out of turn, but the player up next always gets first claim.

02 · LAY DOWN

Meet the hand's goal

Once your cards match the current hand's exact combination of sets and runs, lay it all down at once — or let Auto-Arrange find the split for you.

03 · DISCARD

End your turn

Drag extra cards onto any meld on the table, then discard. First to empty their hand ends the round — and if the draw pile ever runs dry first, the hand ends right there too.

The eight hands

Every round raises the bar. Sizes below are minimums — sets need 3+ matching numbers, runs need 4+ in sequence and the same color.

1
2 Sets of 3
2
1 Set of 3 & 1 Run of 4
3
2 Sets of 4
4
1 Set of 3 & 1 Run of 5
5
3 Sets of 3
6
1 Set of 3 & 1 Run of 6
7
2 Sets of 5
8
1 Set of 3 & 1 Run of 7

Play your way

One rules engine, three ways to sit down at the table.

1P

Solo

Practice against named AI opponents that draw, discard, and steal with real strategy — no connection needed.

LAN

Local network

Gather everyone's devices on the same Wi-Fi and host a game in seconds.

⌘

Online

Play with friends anywhere over the internet, matched and hosted through Game Center.

Built for the table, not just the rules

The parts that make a physical card game feel good, carried over — plus a few that only a screen can do.

Drag, or tap — your call

Drag cards straight off the piles or onto a meld, or stick with tap-to-select. Both work everywhere, every turn.

Auto-Arrange

Stuck seeing the split? Auto-Arrange finds a valid way to meet the hand's goal from the cards in your hand.

Ready check

Tap the draw pile when you're set. Everyone starts each hand together — no one caught mid-shuffle.

Pick up where you left off

Back out mid-game and the main menu offers to resume it — solo, local, or online.

Make it yours

Two card designs, six table colors, and house rules for wild count and going-down timing — set once in Settings.

Track your record

Wins, losses, and win rate across every mode, synced across your devices with iCloud — plus 27 Game Center achievements (six of them secret) and leaderboards for all-time wins, weekly wins, and achievement points.

112
cards in the deck
3–6
players per game
11
cards dealt to start
1s
are always wild