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Short Stack
Free family card game
The card game every family knows, your way.
In your browser. No download, no account, no ads.
Match the pancake on top by flavor, number or action, and clean your plate first. Down to your last one? Tap Last Bite! before someone catches you. Play your family's house rules on one phone, online or with bots.
- Joueurs: 2–10 joueurs
- Durée: 5–45 min
- Âge: Dès 6 ans
Pourquoi c’est génial
House rules, your way
Stack Butter on Butter until the tower topples, swap plates on a 7, slap down a twin out of turn. Switch each rule on or off, and everyone sees which are on.
Last Bite! Caught you!
Two big buttons, one race: call your last pancake before anyone catches you. Every phone shows the same winner.
Save Our Rules
Name your family's set, like Grandma's Rules, and share it as a link. It opens a game set up your way on any phone.
One phone or ten
Pass one phone around, or play online with a code. 2 to 10 players, and diner regulars fill any empty seat.
It teaches itself
The table says what fits, each house rule shows a tip the first time it happens, and the round sheet adds up every point.
How it plays
Match. Shout. Clean your plate.
Everyone gets seven pancakes. The stack in the middle says what's next.
Match the top pancake
Play one that matches by flavor, number or action, or a wild. Can't? Draw one.
Shout Last Bite!
Down to one pancake? Tap Last Bite! before someone taps Caught you!, or take 2 more.
Clean your plate
First with an empty plate wins the round and scores what everyone else is still holding.
On the menu
Four flavors, three actions, two wilds
108 pancake cards. Every flavor has its own shape too, so color is never the only clue.
The four flavors
Actions and wilds
The loudest moment at the table
Last Bite! Caught you!
Play your second-to-last pancake and tap Last Bite! Forget it, and anyone can tap Caught you! to hand you 2 more. The game settles every race, so every phone shows the same winner.
House rules
Your table, your rules
Seven switches, each in plain words. Everyone at the table sees which are on.
The traditional rules.Towers, plate swaps, jump-ins, and drawing until you can play.
Stacking
Pile a Butter on a Butter, a Mega Stack on a Mega Stack. The tower grows until someone can't add to it, then it topples onto them.
OffSame on same
Seven-swap & zero-pass
Play a 7 and swap plates with anyone you like. Play a 0 and everyone passes their plate along.
OffOn
Jump-in
Got the very same pancake as the top one? Slap it down, even out of turn. Fastest hand wins.
OffOn
Draw until you can play
Can't play? Keep drawing until you get one that fits.
OffOn
Must play if you can
If a pancake fits, you have to play it. No hiding good cards.
OffOff
Mega Stack challenge
Played a Mega Stack while holding the flavor on top? The next player can call the bluff.
OnOn
Two players: Flip hops
In a two-player game, a Flip lets you go again, like a Hop.
OnOn
Watch the tower
With stacking on, Butters pile up on the table until someone can't add one. Then the whole tower topples onto them.
Real play: a tower of eight topples onto Crispin, then Toastie forgets Last Bite! and gets caught.
Real screens
Pull up a chair
Six at the table, mid-round, with the stack in the middle. 
A tower of two Butters is coming your way. 
The Last Bite! tip, the first time it matters. 
Jump-in: you hold the twin, so slap it down. 
Played a wild? Choose the flavor. 
The round sheet adds up every point. 
A clean plate, a winner, and Play again. 
House rules, in plain words. 
Grandma's Rules, opened from a link. 
Who's playing? People and regulars, 2 to 10 seats.
Ways to play
One phone, ten phones, or the TV
Pass one phone
Play here: 2 to 10 seats on one device. A curtain hides each hand between turns.
Each on your own phone
Start a game online and share the code, link or QR code. The host picks the rules and the turn timer.
Diner regulars
Fill any seat with a computer player at Easy, Normal or Clever. The Easy ones sometimes forget to call Last Bite!
The table on the TV
Open the table screen on a TV or tablet: the stack, the tower and whose turn it is, never anyone's hand.
Meet the regulars
There's always a full table
Eight breakfast regulars take any empty seat, and they play like people.
For families
Good manners at every table
No ads, nothing for sale
No coins, no shop, no ads. The game says so on its first screen.
No chat
Players react with eight picture stickers. The only thing anyone types is their own name.
No strangers
Online games are private rooms, joined only with your code, link or QR code. The host can remove anyone.
No account, no ad tracking
Online play asks for a name and a character. No email, no password, no cookies.
Made for this game
All-new art, songs and sounds, made for Short Stack.
Bon à savoir
L’essentiel en un coup d’œil.
- Joueurs
- 2–10 joueurs
- Genre
- Jeu de cartes
- Durée
- 5–45 min
- Âge
- Dès 6 ans
- Façons de jouer
- Un seul téléphone, qu’on se passe · En ligne entre amis · Des bots aux places libres · La télé comme table
- Fonctionne sur
- N’importe quel téléphone, tablette ou ordinateur
- Prix
- Gratuit · Sans pub · Sans achats intégrés
Questions
What families ask
How many people can play Short Stack?
2 to 10. Play with people only, or let the diner regulars (computer players at Easy, Normal or Clever) fill any empty seat, so even one person can play.
Is Short Stack free?
Yes. Short Stack is free to play in a web browser, with no ads, no coins and nothing for sale.
Is Short Stack safe for kids?
Short Stack has no ads, no purchases and no chat: players react with eight picture stickers, and the only thing anyone types is their own name. Online games are private rooms that only people with your code, link or QR code can join, and the host can remove anyone. No account is needed, and there's no ad tracking.
Does Short Stack need a download or an account?
No. Open play.qubesoftware.com/short-stack in the browser of any recent phone, tablet or computer and play, in portrait or landscape. Online play only asks for a name and a character.
Can we play Short Stack on one phone?
Yes. Choose Play here, set 2 to 10 seats, and pass the phone around. A curtain hides each hand between turns, so nobody peeks.
Can we play Short Stack on different phones?
Yes. Choose Play online, start a game and share its code, link or QR code. Everyone joins from their own phone, tablet or computer, and a TV can show the table.
How long does a game of Short Stack take?
A quick game is one round, about 5 to 10 minutes. A race to 500 plays round after round and usually takes 20 to 45 minutes. You choose before you deal.
How do you play Short Stack?
Everyone gets 7 pancake cards. On your turn, play one that matches the top of the stack by flavor, number or action, or draw. Flip turns play around, Hop hops over the next player, Butter +2 makes them take two, and Syrup and Mega Stack +4 change the flavor. With one card left, tap Last Bite! before someone taps Caught you! The first to clean their plate wins the round.
What ages is Short Stack for?
Ages 6 and up. You only match numbers and flavors, and every flavor has its own shape as well as its color. Grown-ups get plenty to play with in the house rules.
What languages is Short Stack in?
The game is in English. Its cards use numbers, flavor shapes and pictures, so matching them needs no reading.
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Deal seven pancakes and see who cleans their plate first.
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