Top
QQ
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Right
QQ
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You
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Left
Place card
Build trade
Select your cards and one opponent's cards.
You give
You get
Incoming trade
They offer
They want
Results
Suspected Suit
Comms
Pick a message for the table.
Reconnect?
You disconnected from your previous match. Reconnect?
New Game
Players
Difficulty
Bot personalities visible.
Create Room
Choose the table size. Empty seats will eventually be filled by bots when the room starts.
or
Join Room
Enter the room code from the host.
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4-player room
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Challenges
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Rules
Start
Each player is secretly dealt an Ace. Players win by obtaining cards that match the suit of their assigned Ace.
Your Turn
On your turn, either Draw or Trade.
- Draw: Take the top card of the draw pile in secret. Put it in your Bank face down or on your Trading Floor face up.
- Trade: Offer any number of cards from your Trading Floor for any number of cards from one other player's Trading Floor.
- If your trade is rejected, you're unable to send another offer to that player till your next turn. You can still send offers to other players, or draw instead.
Bank
Cards placed into your Bank are not revealed or moved until the end of the game.
Trading Floor
Cards placed on your Trading Floor can be traded later on. Once a card is there, it stays there until it is traded away. Cards you receive in a trade can go either in your Bank or back on your Trading Floor.
Forced Draw
If every active player trades consecutively, the next player must draw.
Winning
When the draw pile is empty, players count how many cards in their Bank and Trading Floor match the Secret Suit of their Ace. The player with the highest count wins. If two players have the same amount, the winner is determined by tiebreakers:
- Most Sister Suit cards(Cards that share the color of your Secret Suit)
- Most total cards
- Most face cards
- Highest total value (Face cards count as 10)
Bot Personalities
Bots are randomly assigned personalities before each game. On Easy Mode, you can see which personality each bot has. On Normal Mode, their personalities are hidden. On Hard Mode, one of the bots will be the "Hustler" personality, which plays more like a skilled human would.
BrokerTrades most of the time.
ProspectorDraws most of the time.
BankerUsually puts cards in their Bank.
ShopkeeperUsually puts cards on their Trading Floor.
BenefactorAccepts trades more often.
HagglerCounters trades more often.
MiserRejects trades more often.
GratefulThe more you trade with them, the more they will accept bad trades from you.
SpitefulRemembers who rejects their offers and is less willing to accept even good trades from them.
TricksterObscures their Secret Suit by playing erratically.
AuditorTracks which Suit each opponent wants, and denies them.
HustlerOne bot on Hard Mode will have this personality. Plays more like a clever human than the other bots.
Secret SuitThe Ace you are dealt at the start of the game assigns your Secret Suit. When there's no cards left to draw, the player with the highest count of their own Secret Suit wins the game.
QQ
QQ
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A♥
Sister SuitThe other suit of the same color as your Secret Suit: Hearts/Diamonds and Clubs/Spades. If two players tie for the highest amount of Secret Suit cards, the player with more of their Sister Suit wins.
A♥
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A♣
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Counter OfferCounteroffers are powerful: you can ask for what you want while still retaining the ability to trade on your own turn.
Countered
One Man's TrashEarly in the game, cards outside your Secret Suit and Sister Suit are basically trash, because you don't know who wants them. Once opponents reveal what they value through their trading habits, that same trash becomes useful fodder: cards you don't want, but somebody else does. Sometimes you should accept a trade you don't want to set up a trade you do.
A♥
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A♥
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4♠
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5♣
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Q♣
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GoodwillOne-sided deals will only get you so far. A fair deal now can make a player more willing to deal with you later. Goodwill mostly applies to the Spiteful and Grateful personalities, but also applies to playing against humans online.
You give
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for
You get
K♣
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Banking vs. TradingBanking protects a card and hides it, but removes it from future deals. Trading Floor cards stay flexible and visible, but opponents can learn about you from them.
BankTrading Floor
TiebreakersIf Secret Suit totals tie, compare Sister Suit cards first, then total cards, then face cards, then total card value.
WINNER
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10♥
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Sending vs. Accepting a TradeSending an offer uses your turn if the trade is accepted. Accepting someone else's offer happens on their turn, so you still get to act on your own turn. That makes acceptance especially valuable.
Accepted
Card Back
QQ
Card Back Unlocked!
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Classic
Default card back.
Equip in Profile.
Profile
Clear solo stats?
This will permanently erase your solo statistics. Your unlocked card backs will remain unlocked.
Settings
Sound Effects
Music
Text Size
Card Size
Button Layout
MatchmakingOpen: Get prompted to invite online players. Closed: Get invited by online players. Hidden: Invites disabled.
Full ChatUnrestricted chat with players who also enable Full Chat.
Bot Stats
Tutorial
Credits
Credits
Created by
Wavedash Kid
Special Thanks
- piss_shrub_official
- Laurie
- Rach
- Clark
- Laila
Music and Sound by Pixabay.com
Music & Game Sounds
Easy ThemeAlex Morgan
Normal ThemeHD Studio
Hard ThemeInPlus Music
Trade AcceptedDRAGON-STUDIO
Trade CounteredPixaBay
Trade Rejectedasmarttv2022
Card Dealt / ClassicOxidVideos
Ace Revealfreesound_community
Card BankedUniversfield
Card FlooredDioNeves
Bank RevealedOxidVideos
Game Over soundsfloraphonic
Notificationfloraphonic
Card Back Sounds
BronzeShut_Up_Ghost
Silverflutie8211
Goldfreesound_gamestudio
Crystalfreesound_gamestudio
Ivorydishantbabariya
CardboardOxidVideos
RainbowSwanTwirls
Velvetfreesound_community
FeltCredit not supplied
JadeMilbela
AmethystTanwerAman
Leatherfreesound_community
Platinumfreesound_community
Starsu_jfkxueyart
Sandfreesound_community
Obsidianfreesound_community
Dark Matterfreesound_community
FrostbiteDRAGON-STUDIO
Abundancevoiceofruthie
Pearlfreesound_community
RubyDJARTMUSIC
SapphireUniversfield
BismuthFronbondi_Skegs
Version Log
Version 3.6.4
- Corrected the new Card Back sounds so they play with their Card Backs during normal use; Card Back unlocks continue to use the standard achievement sound.
Version 3.6.3
- Added unique unlock sounds for The World, Hiya!, 1A, Brain, Gladiator, and Static Card Backs.
Version 3.6.2
- Improved online reconnect after refreshing or briefly losing connection, including using the original room code to recover your active seat.
- Fixed a multiplayer opening-turn timing issue that could leave the first player unable to place their automatically drawn card.
- Kept the Incoming Trade panel above iPhone Safari's bottom controls so the full offer remains reachable.
Version 3.6.1
- Removed the endgame Secret Suit symbol column so the full Results table has more room on narrow screens.
- Replaced the OQR/SQR question-mark controls with the cleaner Unicode ⓘ information icon.
Version 3.6.0
- Added three new secret Card Backs.
- Added tap/click explanations for SQR and OQR.
- Trial Results now reveal the bot personalities you faced.
- Polished the endgame Results table, Credits, and Tutorial flow.
Version 3.5.3
- Fixed the iPhone endgame Results layout rules so the Results panel can position and scroll correctly after a match.
Version 3.5.2
- Counteroffers can now use any card-count combination as long as at least one specific card changes from the original trade.
- New desktop players now start with Large Cards by default; saved Card Size preferences are preserved.
- Updated the browser tab title to “Quarta - Trade, Bluff, Win!”
Version 3.5.1
- Fixed the endgame Results panel being clipped off-screen on iPhone after a match ends.
Version 3.5.0
- Expanded Trials to ten variants, all available in any order once Trials are unlocked. Complete any five for Stars and all ten for Static.
- Added Face Card, Fire Sale, Three Angry Men, Panopticon, and Fog Trials, and reordered the full Trial list by approximate difficulty.
- Added Gladiator and Brain as permanent Online Card Back rewards.
- Added new hidden long-term Daily Challenge rewards beyond Sand.
- Online rooms now let the room creator pause bot filling with a single Wait for more players toggle, including before the room is created.
- Online tables now inherit a three-color theme from the room creator's equipped card back.
- Invite senders are now told when an invitation is declined, and unused invite-only rooms close automatically.
- Results now show each player's finishing place directly beside their name.
- Corrected black Suspected Suit symbols so Clubs and Spades display in black.
Version 3.4.6
- Fixed the restored Profile card-back inspection view so the full selected card-back artwork renders at large size.
Version 3.4.5
- Centered the newly scaled leaderboard card-back thumbnails correctly inside their player rows.
Version 3.4.4
- Trade-related bot comm replies now follow the player you most recently sent an offer or counteroffer to.
- Leaderboard card backs now scale their full design proportionally instead of rebuilding patterns at miniature size.
- Restored the large Profile card-back preview: click or tap the card artwork itself to inspect it without equipping it.
- Reorganized Credits with creator and Special Thanks first, expanded Sound & Music credits, and Version at the bottom.
Version 3.4.3
- Added unique deal and Profile-preview sounds for the secret Comedian and Sum card backs.
- Expanded the Sum card back's green number matrix so it fills the full card instead of clustering on one portion.
Version 3.4.2
- Online card-deal animations now play in sequence when network updates arrive together, preventing two seats from being dealt visually at the same time.
- Fixed the Abundance unlock announcement so its overflowing suit artwork appears correctly.
Version 3.4.1
- Unnamed players now receive a stable numbered Player alias on both Online and Solo leaderboards instead of appearing as identical plain “Player” entries.
- Legacy plain “Player” leaderboard rows are resolved through the same alias system when loaded.
- Custom player names are unchanged.
Version 3.4
- Added a desktop-only docked panel layout for roomy mouse/trackpad displays.
- History can stay open on the right while the table remains fully interactive.
- Challenges, Rules, Profile, and Settings open on the left, with one left panel visible at a time.
- Rules and History can be viewed simultaneously beside the live game.
- Phones, tablets, touch-first devices, cramped windows, and smaller displays keep the existing modal layout unchanged.
Version 3.3
- Added private Suspected Suit tags by clicking an opponent’s Bank.
- Added the secret Comedian card back for witnessing a Face Cards tiebreaker.
- Added the secret Sum card back for witnessing a Total Value tiebreaker.
- Added a close button to the New Game menu so the current table can be viewed again without starting a new match.
Version 3.2.1
- Fixed the Abundance card back overriding deal-animation positioning, so its card visibly flies from the deck like every other card back.
- Corrected the Credits version link and Version Log card grouping.
Version 3.2
- Online History now records detailed draws, placements, offers, counters, rejections, and completed trades like Solo History.
- Invite prompts now visibly open the online waiting room for both players before a match starts.
- Online bots use their table positions as names and no longer answer “Thanks” after your latest interaction was with a human.
- Fixed online Trading Floor and trade statistics that could remain at zero.
- Results now use Secret Suit and Sister Suit terminology.
- Added mutual opt-in Full Chat under Matchmaking settings.
- Prevented a completed game’s delayed end reveal from resurfacing after a new game starts.
Version 3.1
- Aligned the two full Qs in the desktop startup wordmark so their circular bowls overlap cleanly, while keeping both tails visible.
Version 3.0.9
- Moved the iPhone Build Trade / Counter Offer controls to a fixed bottom HUD above the safe area, keeping the table and selectable cards unobstructed as much as possible.
- Removed iPhone priority-panel table resizing so opening gameplay panels no longer changes the board size; Android and desktop remain unchanged.
Version 3.0.8
- Fixed the iPhone Build Trade / Counter Offer window covering Trading Floor cards by dynamically moving the compact trade HUD into the clearest open area of the table.
- Kept the full-size iPhone table, Safari-safe floating panels, restored menu layering, and unchanged Android/Desktop layouts.
Version 3.0.7
- Restored menu layering so Challenges, Rules, Profile, History, Settings, and New Game always appear above the table and gameplay controls.
- Preserved the iPhone center-panel fixes from 3.0.6 and left Android/Desktop gameplay layout unchanged.
Version 3.0.6
- Fixed iPhone gameplay panels so Place Card and Build Trade now float over the table instead of shrinking it.
- Kept the normal iPhone table size and removed gameplay scrolling during those choices, while leaving Android unchanged.
Version 3.0.4
- Fixed iPhone multi-card trade selection by keeping the table full-size while building or countering a trade.
- Trade selection can scroll when needed instead of crushing the table and overlapping Trading Floors.
Version 3.0.3
- Reverted the decorative table wordmark to a normal single Q.
- Kept the 3.0.2 card-back unlock announcement fix: unlocks stay above the endgame results until clicked or tapped.
Version 3.0.2
- Corrected the decorative table two-tailed Q alignment so both Q layers read as one symbol.
- Card-back unlock announcements now appear above the endgame results and stay visible until clicked or tapped.
Version 3.0.1
- Improved multi-card trade selection on small touch screens so selected cards no longer expand over neighboring tap targets.
- Updated the decorative table wordmarks to use Quarta's two-tailed Q.
- Changed the endgame stat label from “Suit cards” to “Secret Suit cards.”
- Corrected the black-card order in the Advanced Tips Sister Suit example.
- Music now starts before a game: first-time players begin with the Easy theme, while returning players resume their most recently played theme. Music Off always takes priority.
Version 3.0
- Standardized “Secret Suit” capitalization across player-facing text.
- Standardized the first tiebreaker terminology as “Sister Suit” in Rules and Advanced Tips.
- Promoted the verified 2.9.9 launch candidate to 3.0 after additional real-device iPhone confirmation.
- No gameplay, leaderboard, Cloud Save, reconnect, matchmaking, challenge, Trial, achievement, bot, audio, or card-back behavior changed from 2.9.9.
Version 2.9.9
- Added the Quarta startup splash using the same overlaid, 180°-rotated Q treatment as the card backs, plus the four card suits.
- The splash runs on a fresh page load/visit and does not retrigger just because an existing tab becomes active again.
- The opening Ace deal now plays the local player's equipped card-back deal sound before the Ace Reveal sound.
- Real-device iPhone testing confirmed the live game no longer requires scrolling.
Version 2.9.7.2
- Restored the Quarta browser favicon using the gold double-tailed Q mark.
- No gameplay, text, leaderboard, Cloud Save, reconnect, audio, challenge, Trial, achievement, or device-layout behavior changed from 2.9.7.1.
Version 2.9.7.1
- Removed two redundant implementation details from the Rules page: final-card auto-Bank behavior and the counteroffer ratio restriction.
- Kept Trading Floor permanence and post-trade placement guidance because those rules affect player decisions directly.
- No gameplay behavior changed from 2.9.7.
Version 2.9.7
- Humanized player-facing text across the table, Rules, tutorial, Profile, card backs, results, and supporting UI.
- Leaderboards no longer require Google Save; anonymous Firebase players publish automatically after eligible Solo or Online games.
- Google Save is now strictly for cloud persistence and carrying progress across devices.
- Kept final-card auto-Bank, counteroffer restrictions, Trading Floor permanence, reconnect, card-back audio, challenges, Trials, and all prior 2.9.6 behavior intact.
Version 2.9.6
- Restricted the iPhone live-game viewport resizing rules to iOS devices so Android keeps its normal, stable table size.
- Bank / Trading Floor choices and other temporary action panels no longer shrink the table on Android.
Version 2.9.5
- Added a unique sound effect for every unlockable card back; Classic continues to use the original Card Dealt sound.
- Selecting a card back in Profile now previews that back's sound immediately.
- Card draws now play the sound belonging to the receiving player's equipped card back, including other human players online.
- Opening your Bank to view its cards now plays your selected card-back sound.
- Collapsed the long music and sound attribution list so Special Thanks and Version remain easy to reach.
- Changed Dark Matter's requirement text to “Unlock every other solo card back.”
Version 2.9.4
- The final card is now automatically Banked instead of being placed on the Trading Floor, without counting as a voluntary Bank placement.
- Counteroffers must change at least one card and cannot worsen the countering player's card-count ratio compared with the original offer.
- Improved short iPhone viewport handling so the live game board and main controls fit without scrolling.
- Added Clark, Laurie, and Rach to Special Thanks.
- Removed the remaining explanatory subtitle above Online Card Backs.
- Kept the existing reconnect, matchmaking, Cloud Save, challenges, Trials, achievements, and online features intact.
Version 2.9.3
- Added reconnect-after-disconnect for active online matches, with Reconnect and Leave Match choices before the New Game screen.
- Leaving a disconnected match makes that abandoned seat automatically place its draws on the Trading Floor so the table can keep moving.
- Added a hidden five-tap Cloud Save logout for switching Google accounts on shared devices and for testing.
- Finalized the secret Abundance card back as an overflowing hoard of stacked suit symbols; it remains excluded from Dark Matter.
Version 2.9.2
- Cleaned up Settings by removing explanatory subtitles from every setting except Matchmaking.
- Shortened the Matchmaking descriptions for Open, Closed, and Hidden.
- Updated the Credits heading to “Music and Sound by Pixabay.com”.
- Removed the explanatory subtitle above the main Card Backs collection.
Version 2.9.1
- Fixed stale browser caching that could show the 2.9 version shell while still running older gameplay code.
- Added versioned script and stylesheet URLs so future patches reliably load fresh code.
- Hardened Firebase cache behavior for HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
Version 2.9
- Leaderboard now ranks by total wins by default, with SQR and OQR retained as secondary ratings.
- Fixed the Empty Trading Floor Daily Challenge so the unavoidable final auto-placed card does not disqualify the challenge.
- Counter is no longer offered when it would simply repeat the exact same trade.
- Added the secret Abundance card back for witnessing a game decided by the Total Cards tiebreaker.
- Corrected the tiebreaker example to use the Eight of Diamonds.
Version 2.8.8.6
- First-time players no longer publish as available for matchmaking before the tutorial starts.
- Tutorial gating now applies from startup through completion, preventing online-arrival prompts and invites during the first-run tutorial.
Version 2.8.8.5
- Moved Quarta to Firebase Hosting and restored Google Cloud Save sign-in and persistence.
- Fixed stale online presence so disconnected players expire instead of lingering as inviteable "Player" entries.
- Button Layout now swaps every top action, including Challenges and New Game, while Right remains the default.
- Simplified the Challenges popup and promoted total progress plus refresh time into the old Daily Challenges heading position.
Version 2.8.8.4
- Players in the tutorial are no longer available for online game invites.
- Declining an invite prevents that player from inviting you again for five minutes.
- Invite sending now re-checks live availability so stale lobby presence cannot bypass the tutorial lockout.
Version 2.8.8.3
- Improved Google Cloud Save sign-in on Safari, including a redirect fallback when popups are blocked.
- Stopped Easy mode from repeating bot personality labels on the endgame results screen.
- Corrected the fifth card in the tiebreaker example to the Eight of Hearts.
Version 2.8.8.2
- Added Bank and Trading Floor sound effects to the tutorial's final post-trade placement choice.
- Added the in-game version number at the bottom of Credits.
- Added a clickable Version Log for tracking changes in future releases.