Deck of Cards is free to play, and the people you invite never need an account. A pass unlocks the bigger table options. Free tables are deleted after 72 hours without activity; premium tables are deleted after 90 days of inactivity. Everything below applies to the person who creates the table. Everyone else just shows up and plays.
Passes
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One-time payments. No subscription. Nothing auto-renews, and there is nothing to cancel. Every pass unlocks exactly the same features; they differ only in how long they last.
Passes are bought from your account page. If you're not signed in yet, you'll be asked to first. Accounts are free.
What a pass adds
| Free | With a pass | |
|---|---|---|
| Players at a table | Up to 4 | Up to 10 |
| Standard decks in play | 1 | Up to 5 |
| Your own custom decks | No | Yes, one custom deck per table |
| Chips | No | Yes |
| Cribbage board | No | Yes |
| Score keeping | No | Yes |
| Table name | Named after its share code | Name it yourself |
| PIN lock | No | Six-digit PIN |
| Table deleted after | 72 hours without activity | 90 days without activity |
| New tables per day | 25 | 50 |
| Deck Builder | No | 10 decks, up to 200 cards each |
How it works
- New tables get everything. Every table you create while your pass is active gets the premium options and is deleted after 90 days without activity, even if you don't switch any options on.
- Older tables catch up. As long as it hasn’t been deleted, buying a pass changes its deletion limit to 90 days the next time you resume it. Only tables you made are upgraded. Resuming someone else’s table never upgrades it.
- Your players ride free. The people you invite never need an account or a pass to play. While your pass is active they just open the link and sit down, and once a table is up and running anyone can join it.
- When your pass ends. Your premium tables are not deleted immediately. After everyone leaves, only you can resume them, and you must extend your pass first. Another player's pass cannot unlock a table you created. A table is deleted after 90 days of inactivity.
- Games are never cut off. A table with people still at it is never interrupted, even if a pass runs out mid-game.
Deck Builder
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When a pass ends, your decks stay viewable and can still be deleted. Creating or editing decks requires an active pass.
Good to know
- Renewing early costs you nothing. A 30-Day Pass runs 30 days and a 365-Day Pass runs 365 days. Buying another pass before your current one ends adds its length to the end of the one you have.
- Coming back after a break. A premium table is deleted after 90 days of inactivity, not 90 days after your pass ends. Extend your pass before the table is deleted and you can resume it with its cards, scores and premium options intact. Its 90-day inactivity period then starts again.
- Lifetime is tied to your account. It lasts for the life of the service and is not transferable.
- Changed your mind? 14-day refunds. Email hello@deckofcards.net within 14 days and we'll refund it, so long as the pass hasn't been used to create or resume a table that needed it, or to save a custom deck. Outside that, write to us anyway and we'll look at it.