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CardGames.io has a rating of 2.46 stars from 45 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. CardGames.io ranks 51st among Card Games sites.

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 28.6%
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Top Positive Review

“LOL at these reviews”

Wesley B.
6/18/21

The people leaving the one star reviews make me laugh. They are bad at cribbage and keep losing and then claim the game is rigged. I win the majority of the time. It is not rigged. My only complaint is that some games become a little too easy because the opponents are very predictable. Otherwise, a great site and app!

Top Critical Review

“In euchre Bill stinks in crib as an opponent he's a genius”

Bill C.
2/17/21

Not a good site I play it a lot but recently decided to keep score in cribbage 32 games Bill 15 for me. I remember reading Bill wins around 35% it's the other way around. Just too may times the amazing Bill pulls off improbable run of high scoring cribs like 12,14 18 and I'm getting 2 4 or the odd 8. No balance

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Thumbnail of user billc809
1 review
10 helpful votes
February 17th, 2021

Not a good site I play it a lot but recently decided to keep score in cribbage 32 games Bill 15 for me. I remember reading Bill wins around 35% it's the other way around. Just too may times the amazing Bill pulls off improbable run of high scoring cribs like 12,14 18 and I'm getting 2 4 or the odd 8. No balance

Thumbnail of user konradk5
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
February 23rd, 2024

Tried to play chess on this site, had the opposing king trapped by a rook and a queen, game ended as "stalemate" like the game was made to give anything other than checkmate just to claim you didnt win

chess.com is full of cheaters
Lichess cant program difficulty settings right
And now cardgames.io cant define a checkmate...
Where exactly do i get an actual game of online chess?

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Thumbnail of user georgej842
1 review
3 helpful votes
February 8th, 2023

If you enjoy go fish with your kids dont bother with this game. The owner always uses "stats" as a way to prove the games arent rigged but when you only win 4 games out of 50 no matter how many times you play and the pther three bots split their stats almost evenly … rigged! We even wrote down the numbers of the other players … horrible. Gone back to real cards with real people

Thumbnail of user enoughwiths
1 review
5 helpful votes
February 21st, 2021

Im a beginner and I play on chess.com, chess3d and a bunch of other sites. I win against the beginner bots and lose against the medium difficulty bots. Exactly what you'd expect. But I always lose against bill jr, who is supposed to be easy, yet I often win against Bill sr, the medium bot. Just a really bad engine by a bunch of unskilled programmers.

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Thumbnail of user doeh2
1 review
7 helpful votes
January 28th, 2020

I don't know that this is deliberately rigged or just bad programming. I think the actual graphics of the cards are some of the best I have ever found because they are not over-run with annoying movements and distracting sounds of cards shuffling. Some games go way overboard and nearly give me motion sickness. However, spades and hearts don't act right at times. If think I have seen my own partner low-ball me during a Nil bid causing me to take a hand, when they could have dealt a higher card to help me out. And hearts ticks me off sometimes. The game will make sure you get the queen of spades come hell or high water. I've notice that the queen is always to my left waaaaay too often so if I take a chance and throw the Ace or King as the 3rd player in the sequence, 9 times out of 10, the queen will get played from the left. Also, I have seen toooo many times where the 2,3, and 4 of diamonds are scattered evenly and the other player doesn't have a diamond, but just so happens to have the queen of spades and plays it then. Too predictable and comes off as rigged.

Thumbnail of user staciadixon
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 6th, 2024

This card game site is so much fun. I'm addicted to spider solitaire but enjoy others too. You can play against the machine or other people. Check it out!

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Thumbnail of user flucky
1 review
10 helpful votes
August 23rd, 2022

The programmers suck $#*! at their job, this is why they have no clue how to program the AI to have winning strategies. To compensate for their stupidity, laziness and incompetence, they blatently cheat the draws to allow their $#*!ty AI to win more often.

Tip for consumers:
Go somewhere else

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Thumbnail of user guyd167
1 review
3 helpful votes
August 18th, 2023

Try playing a Yahtze game. In four hands the dealer deals himself five sixes, a full house, five sixes, and a five hand straight. Seriously?!?!? I write to the programmer and he says the cards are dealt randomly. I tell him no one deals themselves four great hands in a row and he tells me to play on a different website if I'm not happy. Nice customer relations. My advice: Don't play on this website and inform your friends that these games are rigged and a cheat!

Thumbnail of user lydiak19
3 reviews
47 helpful votes
August 4th, 2020

The only question I have is why? What exactly does this crappy site get out of rigging the games? It's absolute junk

Thumbnail of user kb602
1 review
3 helpful votes
November 23rd, 2020

Excellent choices of card games to play and I play the app everyday. Bill can be tough, but it's a FREE site. Lots of choices.

Thumbnail of user susanw2902
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 18th, 2022

I have been using the CardGames.io since the beginning, and I love it. Never a problem, and when I write I'm always answered quickly.

Tip for consumers:
So many various games. Great quality!!!

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Thumbnail of user junel164
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 29th, 2022

Auto answer when complaining. Will not use application since ads are girly ad b. S. Stop this practice of portraying women as large boobed, ditsy, tools for men to achieve fulfillment from viewing.

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Thumbnail of user jeffp1070
1 review
15 helpful votes
February 8th, 2022

Often I can call out the cards "Bill" will play no matter the circumstances or what is on the board, as long as it brings him a 15,31, or 3 of a kind or straight &c. "Bill" ALWAYS has a five as well, especially when the cut card is a 10 or face. Thumbs Down City. I'm not a Cribbage expert but good grief.

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Thumbnail of user jr897
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 5th, 2023

I enjoy playing on this site often - I play Hearts, Crazy 8's, Solitaire, Golf, Freecell, Euchre, and Spades - Recently, on my IPad, I am hearing loud drums playing. Is the creator of the CardGames.io doing this? It is a little irritating - I just turn the sound down, though. Overall, I really like this App. And all the card games on it.

Thumbnail of user bills1822
1 review
13 helpful votes
April 1st, 2022

I was just up 25+ late in two games of cribbage and ended up losing because the computer miraculously gets 23, then 24 points. It happens all the time!
What a joke! The computer always gets the most perfect cards, most perfect hands, at the perfect time. App used to be fun. Once you see it's rigged, it sucks!

Thumbnail of user pheladil
1 review
11 helpful votes
January 23rd, 2022

Cribbage and Yahtzee games are manipulated. You either get a pathetically easy win or Bill has statistically unlikely hand/throws.

I always go for multiplayer games.

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Thumbnail of user heidis297
1 review
2 helpful votes
November 8th, 2020

Looking for a free website to play cards, and other games. Look no further than cardgames.io. And this year, 2020, they have added a multiplayer feature where you can play with friends or strangers. I am so thankful for this website, and I play games almost every day.

Thumbnail of user berth54
1 review
21 helpful votes
February 18th, 2021

Once you have played a number of games you will very quickly realise it is rigged in favour of 'Bill' who gets unbelievable hands whenever you start winning. Lost count of the times he gets 12+ points in hand AND crib.
Not realistic.

Thumbnail of user skiph25
1 review
6 helpful votes
July 21st, 2022

Yes, the cards are not like a random deal at your home card game. Even so, I can generally "out-think" my electronic opponent on the pegging portion of the game. Of course there are times when you get stuck for a proper play (just like in a real game although more frequently in the online version.) Your most useful hand turns out to be something that once your opponent plays a card you can only either play for the pair or give up a 3 card run. It's of course automatic; you have to take the pair to garner at least some points and invariably "Bill" will have the 3rd one and peg 6 for three of a kind.

A couple of other frequent happenings I've noticed are when you get 3 of a kind on the deal. Naturally you keep the 3 in your hand with another complementary card. Very often, and much more frequently than probability the card draw will pair the complementary card you kept with your trio. This is the first thing that made me suspicious. It happens again and again.

When the game is tight and you get a pat hand that you "have to" hold a certain 4 cards, you should look out! For instance, you're dealt J, J, Q, K, 6,8. You keep your sure 8 points and toss the 6 and 8 into your opponents crib. The cut produces an 8. Your opponent drew to a 9, 10, 10, 10 and hit a triple run. He also put a 6,7 in his crib and got a double-double! As a result, you were 20 points ahead before this hand but end up losing the game by 15 points. If this were only once, it's feasible. Once every 15 games is not statistically probable. The tide seems to frequently turn roughly at the most critical point of the game for having a small lead... right around the 90 point area, give or take.

Now, it's not impossible to win. In fact sometimes the game is a blow-out in your favor. The whole idea of "rigging" the game is not to screw you over; after all, who's gonna come back for more if they can never win? The reason to "adjust" the game's probability is to make sure each session has some excitement. During play at your kitchen table with a friend you'll have some really exciting hands but, you won't have something improbable happen during each game. The website's mission is to have something interesting happening during every game (and it can be for you or against you) to keep you coming back for more. And, it is tough for them to do that without making it obvious that they are skewing the results from random play. Hence, this is why you are seeing in these reviews that many players see through the lack of randomness... games like these do not happen with random deals!

The game is still fun. Just don't kid yourself into thinking you're playing great when you clobber your opponent. Don't beat yourself up when you lose either. It's pretty much out of your hands whether you win or lose because it has been predetermined beforehand whether you will win or lose that particular game. It is a good time waster but don't believe anything other than the cards you get, the hits you make on the draw and the situations you find yourself in during the pegging portion have all been manipulated by the website designers in an attempt to entertain you and to ensure you get hooked playing on the site.

I believe there is a review that states all of us "complainers" are cribbage tyros who are just "sore losers" and don't understand the game. I for one have been playing cribbage for over 50 years and, whilst not a world champion, am not unknowledgeable about the game and understand the frequency and probability of certain hand sequences within the game. The idea that this online game reflects everyday real world statistical probabilty is well, just laughable,

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Thumbnail of user dianah559
1 review
2 helpful votes
January 23rd, 2021

CardGames is great. Easy to navigate, no fees, If you want to learn how to play games better or play new games this is a great site. No annoying commercials. This site has cards games, board games and instructions on how to play. Love it!

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Thumbnail of user annad300
1 review
22 helpful votes
March 27th, 2020

I play Rummy. When it's 2 or 4 players, "Bill" always wins. When it's 3 players, I think his name is "Mike" wins. First off, they put down almost an entire hand, conveniently runs of 3 or 4, before you even have your first turn. Second, you can't pick from the pile aside from the top card, so you see the card you need pass you by, and you have to forget any run or set you're trying to play. Third, "Bill" or "Mike" always play sets of 3 in 7s or 8s, so that messes your possibility of playing runs even more so. I gave it a try, but I'm not going to keep getting frustrated because the computer wins by 100 before I even have a turn!

Thumbnail of user demoneyese
1 review
2 helpful votes
October 26th, 2022

I play triangles against Bill. I lose. I try online mode, everyone are bots. So I lose. Just cardgames.io is bad. Don't play anything on it.

Tip for consumers:
Just don’t play this.

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Thumbnail of user bossh18
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 15th, 2022

Playing against the AI can be kind of a bore, sometimes, but that's typical when you play games of chance against the computer. The multiplayer option is fantastic and if there isn't anyone available to play, you can just play against the computer until some people show up. I think this site also provides an excellent opportunity to learn how to play card games. I've learned how to play Hearts, Spades, Whist, and Rummy. My two favorite games to play are Gin Rummy and Cribbage. The AI, called "Bill," is kind of dumb when it comes to Gin Rummy, but there are always people online to play against, which is much more interesting. Bill is a genius at Cribbage, or at least he looks like a genius. In fact, most Cribbage games I've played against a computer (including the old Unix command line one) make the computer look like a Cribbage pro. This is mainly because Cribbage mostly is a game of chance. You definitely need a lot of skill to make decisions, but you're dealt the hand that you're dealt and have to work with that. Unlike other reviewers on here that give this site a one star review because Bill beats them most of the time at Cribbage, I can beat Bill quite a lot. I've uploaded screenshots of my most recent statistics. It looks as though I had to abandon two Cribbage games against Bill for some reason, so if I hadn't had to do something else I might have better stats. Even with those two abandoned games, it shows that I have won 50% of the games I've played against Bill. Poor Bill has only won 43% of games against me. I've even managed to skunk him! Anyway, don't believe the negative reviews from angry Cribbage players. They just need to get better at the game or read up on strategies. Bill does not cheat. Cribbage has always made the computer look like a whiz kid since at least the 1970s or 1980s. It's because it's a game of chance for the most part, with some skill required to manage bad hands. If you flip a coin 10 times you will not get "heads" five times and "tails" another five. Probability doesn't work out that way in real life. The same is true for card games. You can have a huge winning streak or a huge losing streak. The bright side: when you toss a coin ten times, you won't get "heads" ten times or "tails" ten times and losing streaks always come to an end.

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Thumbnail of user leew526
1 review
17 helpful votes
October 11th, 2020

Cards.io cheats. This game is rigged. It cheats and its terrible. Why are they cheating! I hate this.

Thumbnail of user lauriebryant89
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 7th, 2024

I like, but I don't like it. This game want let me finish the game. So i don't like it! Please change it

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