Play Palace Card Game Online Free
Work through your hand, your face-up cards, and three final surprises. Beat Mina to an empty palace in this free two-player shedding game.
Palace is a shedding card game also known as Karma, Castle, or Shed. Players empty their hand first, then face-up table cards, then face-down table cards.
How to Play Palace
Play a card equal to or higher than the top card of the pile. Twos reset the pile and can be played on anything. Clicking a hand or face-up card plays all available cards of that rank together. Tens clear the pile. If you cannot play, pick up the pile.
Before play, select a hand card and a face-up palace card to swap them, then press Ready. You take the first turn in this two-player version. Aces are high. After playing, draw back to three hand cards while the stock lasts.
A ten or four equal ranks in a row burns the pile and gives the same player another turn. Once the stock and your hand are empty, play your face-up cards. Keep the final cards hidden and choose one blindly: if it cannot beat the pile, take it and the pile into your hand.
Palace Rules, Demonstrated
Watch the move, then try it at the table above. Each example follows this game's rules.
A 2 resets the rank to beat
A 2 can go on an Ace. The next player may then play any rank. Resetting does not remove the pile.
An Ace is high, but a 2 can always reset it.
A 10 clears the pile
A 10 can go on any card. Remove the whole pile, then take another turn. Four equal ranks in a row also burn it.
The 10 can clear this King.
A bad hidden card comes back to your hand
After your hand and face-up cards are gone, choose a hidden card without looking. If it cannot be played, take that card and the pile.
No hand or face-up cards remain. Try the hidden card.
How to Win
Win by shedding every card from your hand, face-up palace, and hidden palace before the computer.
Controls and Saving
Choose a playable card, or Pick Up Pile if you cannot play. Dimmed controls wait for Mina to finish. Hint never reveals a hidden card. Use a mouse, touch, or Tab with Enter or Space. New Game and reloading start a fresh deal; unfinished games are not saved. Completed results use the site's score system. A win scores 100 and a loss scores 0.
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Try President or Crazy Eights for more shedding games. Prefer filling a hidden-card layout instead of emptying your hand? Play Trash or lower your score across nine holes in 9 Card Golf.
More shedding games
Try Kings in the Corner for alternating-color piles, or Sevens for building suits around the sevens.