Fireworks with Friends · community design preview

Ideas for the table, side by side — pick a study, then flip its switches.

Nothing here is shipped, and none of it is a playable game. Each page below is a still of one idea drawn with the real card art, and every page with options carries the same control console: the combination you are looking at is always on screen, every option is drawn as the thing it does rather than named in a dropdown, and Copy link gives you a URL that reopens exactly this view.

Open the table ↗More suits and playersBuild a cardEvery treatment, one page
How to read the labels Current live, worth your opinion Open comparison a question nobody has answered Reference sheet a lookup, not a proposal Superseded kept for history, not for review

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CurrentThe table

The main board, and the page every switch lives on: card faces and ink, where the information sits, how the stacks wrap, the counters row.

Open this first. Everything else is a detail of it.CurrentThe table, with more suits and players

The same board at four to six seats and five to ten suits, so a crowded table can be judged before it exists.

Does the layout survive ten suits and six hands?

Cards and suits

CurrentCard builder — construct one, compare two

Pick the face, the pip ink and the rank ink separately, the edge, the pip layout and size, the numeral and the box, and put two constructions side by side at the same size. Presets for every treatment on record; each slot has its own link.

Start here for cards: what would you like a card to look like?Reference sheetEvery card treatment, side by side

The printed record: thirteen face treatments at one size — original, full color, lighter, both beiges, and the slate / off-white / black inks — plus the light-face stress strips and the with/without mark-edge block. One long page, on purpose.

A lookup of what has been drawn; the builder is where you choose.CurrentSixes and sevens

Pink, brown, black and white at ranks 6 and 7, the big-central-pip sheet drawn from a tester’s sketch, and the 6-reads-as-9 comparison.

How do ranks above five get drawn?Reference sheetAll ten suits × ranks 1–7

The catalogue: any rank, any suit, three card widths. Use it to check one specific card rather than a direction.

A lookup sheet, not a proposal.Reference sheetRainbow, ranks 4 and 5

The original rainbow sheet with the five standard suits beside it.

Superseded by the card explorer for most questions.

Stacks and arrangement

CurrentHow the play stacks arrange

Five to ten suits under each wrap policy, with and without the half-stack offset on a short row, at three stack widths.

How soon should a row wrap, and should a short row interlock?

Earlier directions, kept for history

SupersededCard backs

Four back designs at 90px and 45px with real possibility pips, including a dark-centre specimen. Settled: the normal back with the suit possibilities arranged in a circle and the ranks below, so these are comparisons kept for history.

Settled: the normal back, circular possibility pips.Superseded4–6 players in one column

The study that settled the one-column direction. Superseded as a board by the table above, which is built from it.

Locked: one column, hands scaled together.Superseded4 / 5 / 6 side by side

Three fitted boards in one frame at laptop and desktop size.

Frames the superseded board.SupersededLarger stacks, first pass

Where the larger one-row stacks came from.

Kept as the step that introduced them.SupersededThe first three directions

A: suit paint. B: pale paper. C: quiet faces. The comparison that chose A.

Settled: A.SupersededPrinted-card table, earlier layout

The printed faces on the pre-action-area layout. Its narrow composition is the one the phone board was rebuilt from.

SupersededOriginal A

The first saturated-face table.

SupersededOriginal B

The pale-paper alternative.

SupersededOriginal C

The single-rank, single-pip alternative.