Card games from home

Pull up a seat at the dap-ay

Pusoy Dos, Tongits, Pusoy, Lucky 9, Cuajo and Pares Pares: the card games of Filipino family tables, dressed in Cordillera weaving. Play the village in your browser, or sit down online with family and friends wherever they are.

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  • Six games, one table

    Climbing games, rummies, a banker's game and Pares Pares. Easy, Normal or Hard computer players, and Teach me while you learn.

  • Family, wherever they are

    Host a table, send the invite link, and play together online with chat and quick reactions. The deal of the day gives everyone the same cards to compare.

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    Your phone or computer makes a passkey and unlocks it with your fingerprint, face or screen lock. The site keeps your name and hometown, and nothing more.

  1. Create your account: the name to show at the table, and your hometown if you like.
  2. Make your passkey: your device asks for your fingerprint, face or screen lock. That's all.
  3. Pick a game and deal. On another phone or computer, sign in with the same passkey.

Games

Come sit at the dap-ay

At dawn and at dusk, the village gathers around the hearth in the stone circle to talk and pass the time. Pull up a stone and deal a hand: play in your browser against the village or with friends. Nothing to download; all you need is a free account.

  • A backstrap loom with its warp threads laid and the first band of cloth begun.

    Coming soon

    More games on the loom

    New bands are being woven into this cloth. Each one will appear here, ready to play, when it's finished.

  • Red and yellow rubber slippers hanging from a broken branch on a weathered log post, against warm board walls with a painted horse.
  • A worn felt cowboy hat hung on a post in an old barn.
  • Two pairs of worn cowboy boots on the floor of a log cabin.
  • Straw and felt hats and a horseshoe hanging from a wooden peg rail.

The name

A seat by the fire

In the old villages of the Cordillera, the dap-ay (the ato, to the Bontoc) is a stone-paved circle among the houses: flat stone seats around a hearth. The elders sit there to talk things through and settle them. People gather there in the early morning and at dusk, and the young learn how things are done by listening. When there's something to celebrate, the gangsa come out.

These games are named for it: somewhere to sit together, keep the fire going, and play a round with the people around you.