Strategy
Carte Blanche
Nominated for Best Sim/Strategy Game in the 2025 Playdate Community Awards!
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Description
Nominated for Best Sim/Strategy Game in the 2025 Playdate Community Awards! Welcome to Carte Blanche! In this cozy card game parlor, owner and operator Blanche is excited to share her love of card games. Pull up a chair and let Blanche teach you a new favorite. (And if you play enough, she might just share some of her most treasured possessions with you.) Carte Blanche features five classic card games: Cribbage Gin Rummy Spades Cassino Spite & Malice Each game offers a guided tutorial with Blanche herself, along with a detailed rulebook . But you can also just dive in and learn as you go . Whatever your play style, Blanche is ready to play. As you play, Blanche awards you pennies to use in her fancy, not-at-all-found-outside Penny Ante machine . You just might win a prize ! (Or at least… you'll win a… thing. Listen, Blanche is really excited about these prizes, okay?)
- Crank: Optional
- Tilt: Not used
- Microphone: Not used
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Credits
How Seven! is: Christopher Yudichak ( Bluesky | Mastodon ) Direction Development Game UX Design Music Diana Perkins ( Mastodon ) Illustration Animation Lead UX
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This game uses the D-pad and the A and B buttons, as well as—optionally—the crank. All interactions using the crank can be performed with the A button. There are no precision or timing-based inputs required.
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Gameplay and impressions 7 videos
Trailers 1 video
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Gameplay and impressions / How Seven!
Carte Blanche — Gameplay: Cassino
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Carte Blanche — Gameplay: Cribbage
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Carte Blanche — Gameplay: Gin Rummy
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Carte Blanche — Gameplay: Spite & Malice
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Carte Blanche — Launch Video
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Carte Blanche — Overview
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Welcome to Carte Blanche
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Trailers / How Seven!
Carte Blanche — Announcement Trailer
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Engadget
Playdate games to check out before the Catalog's 3-year anniversary sale ends
Cheyenne MacDonald
2026-03-05
Playdate: The Unofficial Website
Carte Blanche
Nick Simberg
2025-02-23
Let a bird teach you card games
Age note: We think this game is appropriate for everyone.
AI: This game's developer created it without the use of generative AI.