About the game

A rummy game that keeps moving the goalposts.

8 Hand takes the familiar shape of rummy — draw, meld, discard — and puts a new goal in front of you every round, so the game you're playing on hand eight isn't the game you started on hand one.

The app

8 Hand is a native SwiftUI app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, built by Jeff Dickerson. It's a single, transport-agnostic rules engine underneath three ways to play: alone against computer opponents, with people on the same Wi-Fi network, or online with friends through Game Center.

There's no account to create and nothing to configure before your first hand — Game Center sign-in is only needed if you want to play online, and it's entirely optional otherwise.

What we're building toward

No ads, no tracking

8 Hand doesn't run analytics, ad networks, or crash-reporting SDKs. See the Privacy Policy for exactly what the app does and doesn't touch.

House rules, your call

Whoever hosts a game can tune the handful of rules the base game leaves open, so your table can play it exactly the way you're used to.

Built to last across devices

One codebase, one set of rules, rendered natively for iPhone, iPad, and Mac — so a game plays the same no matter who's holding what.