Fireworks with Friends · Community design preview

Current direction

Suit paint. Saturated card faces with larger outlined ranks and traditional pip placement.

Table layout. Five or six larger stacks share one row. Four to six hands stay in one vertical column and scale together.

Still exploring

Card finish and sizing, layouts for seven to ten stacks, outer margins, and accessibility refinements.

Open a study below to compare these choices.

This is an interactive visual preview, not a playable game. The latest study lets you try clue selections and history controls locally; no game moves are sent. Five- and six-player deals, ranks 6–7, and expanded suit sets are spacing and card-art studies rather than promises about game rules.

Beyond the table · lobby and rooms

New lobby directions

Explore distinct identities for the lobby and rooms, with the same existing features and a design language related to the game board. Earlier studies remain available.

Current table

Table combinations · more suits and players

The same board with pink, black, rainbow, and more. Compare suit sets and four to six players.

Table controls · latest study

Player buttons, color clue tiles, nearby history, clearer turns, semantic log text, and stack/back comparisons. Try selecting a clue and stepping through the sample history.

4–6 players · current layout

One column, shared fit-to-height scale. Switch player count, card finish, and minimum size.

4 / 5 / 6 side by side

Compare laptop and desktop proportions, then open a table at full browser size.

Larger stacks · 2-player table

Five stacks in one row with the deck underneath. Includes the earlier stack layout for comparison.

Cards and suits

Card backs · three new directions

Compare engraved midnight, warm paper, and indigo patterns with readable card possibilities at full and compact sizes.

All suits × ranks 1–7

Ten suits, ranks 1–7, full or lighter paint, and three card sizes.

Original vs printed cards

Compare saturated originals with full-color and lighter printed-card treatments.

Rainbow · ranks 4 and 5

Rainbow and the five standard suits in the printed treatment.

Pink, brown, black, and white

Sixes and sevens with smaller pips and tuned outlines.

Stacks and earlier directions

Stack counts · 5 through 10

Five and six stay in one row; compare wrapping choices above six.

Three first directions

A: suit paint. B: pale paper. C: quiet faces.

Printed-card table · earlier layout

Full-color, lighter, and original-card selector. Its scrolling four-player layout has been superseded.

Original A

The first saturated suit-paint table.

Original B

A warm, pale-paper alternative.

Original C

A restrained single-rank, single-pip alternative.