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How Seven! @howseven.com · 4d

In case you weren't aware: we hide a bunny in each of our games. Have you found any of them yet? #indieDev

A lot of bunny-shaped icons on a green background

How Seven! @howseven.com · Aug 20

We’ve got a collection of card games, if that’s of any interest: www.carteblanche.cards

(We also made some physical pixel-y cards to match! 😄)

“Carte Blanche” main menu. It looks like an open book with a spread titled “Games” and lists Cribbage, Spite & Malice, Spades, Gin Rummy, and Cassino.

A cribbage game in Carte Blanche. A 4, 4, and 7 have been played. One player has said “2 for Pair”, and the other said “2 for 15”. There’s a cribbage board on the right, showing the current score.

A slot machine with card imagery. A payline in the center is highlighted, showing a 2-3-4 straight.

Physical Carte Blanche cards. The 10 of diamonds and 2 of spades sit beside the box, which shows the title and the raven Blanche holding a card in her beak.

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Aug 7

Today's the last day of the 2025 Augustravaganza sale! Pick up some great games at low, low prices. (…including this one game that has a bunch of card games and a bird and a slot machine and prizes and a bird, did I mention the bird?)

Also, you can buy some cards: shop.howseven.com/en-usd/produ...

scraecrow @rae.wtf · Aug 1

the second installment of the playdate community sale, augustravaganza 2025, is here!! over 60 titles, on sale all week!

head to play.date/games/tags/o... to see what's on sale — something from your wishlist? something you've never even heard of? — and pick up some new games to ring out the summer!

Flat, bubbly promotional poster with a yellow background and green accents. "2025 Playdate Community Augustravaganza! Over 60 games on sale, across all genres and styles! Runs from August 1st to August 7th, pacific time." There's a link to the catalog sale page, and a variety of Playdate game thumbnails lining the bottom of the frame.

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Aug 6

The sale's still going through tomorrow, so let's do it again. We'll be live in 15 minutes:

YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/3zvkQSS...
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/howseven

How Seven! @howseven.com · Jul 31

We'll be streaming some gameplay of our @play.date game "Carte Blanche" on our YouTube and Twitch channels this Saturday, August 2 at 3pm (ET).

Join @theoddlinguist.bsky.social for a cozy afternoon of card games and friendly birds.

Visit www.carteblanche.cards#live for more details!

A video thumbnail titled "How Seven! Plays: Carte Blanche". The title is set on an angled background, colored with the How Seven! magenta color. The right side of the thumbnail shows the Carte Blanche title on a yellow Playdate console in front of a window with green trees behind it. The screen is showing a cribbage game in progress.

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Aug 2

We’re live! Grab a drink, find a cozy chair, and join us for some card games.

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLUK...
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/howseven

How Seven! @howseven.com · Jul 31

We'll be streaming some gameplay of our @play.date game "Carte Blanche" on our YouTube and Twitch channels this Saturday, August 2 at 3pm (ET).

Join @theoddlinguist.bsky.social for a cozy afternoon of card games and friendly birds.

Visit www.carteblanche.cards#live for more details!

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Aug 1

Oh, and we're going to be streaming the game to celebrate.

Tomorrow (Saturday August 2) at 3pm (ET) on our YouTube and Twitch channels. Follow us to get notified when we go live.

More information at www.carteblanche.cards#live.

And check out the other games in the sale while you're waiting. 😄

Carte Blanche - A Playdate Game

Carte Blanche is a collection of classic two-player card games presented by a friendly raven named Blanche. Play Cribbage, Gin Rummy, Spite & Malice, Cassino, and Spades!

www.carteblanche.cards

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Aug 1

Happy August! Carte Blanche is 20% off through August 7th. Check out www.carteblanche.cards for links and more information.

Also, all our merch is on sale! Get 15% off, or 25% off orders of $50 or more. Get some cards or shirts at shop.howseven.com.

Thanks to @rae.wtf for organizing! #indieDev

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Jul 31

We'll be streaming some gameplay of our @play.date game "Carte Blanche" on our YouTube and Twitch channels this Saturday, August 2 at 3pm (ET).

Join @theoddlinguist.bsky.social for a cozy afternoon of card games and friendly birds.

Visit www.carteblanche.cards#live for more details!

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How Seven! @howseven.com · May 16

…and if that interests you, you can also take a look at where we got our start: a certain fish that loves fishing games. A particular Japanese fishing game, as a matter of fact. 🎴

apps.apple.com/us/app/kikis...

‎Kiki's Koi-Koi

‎Kiki's Koi-Koi offers a classic Japanese card game with bright graphics, an intuitive interface, and just the right balance of strategy and luck to pass the time away. Oh, and it stars a fish. WHAT ...

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How Seven! @howseven.com · May 16

No, it's not a typo (well, depending on whom you ask): Cassino is a strategic card game that'll have you planning right to the finish.

Match cards from your hand to those on the table. No matches? Then build the cards you need. See how it works: youtu.be/PXkbgAx6ZPk

#cardGames #playdate #indieGame

Carte Blanche — Gameplay: Cassino

YouTube video by How Seven!

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How Seven! @howseven.com · May 12

Big thanks to @cheymac.bsky.social (of @engadget.bsky.social) for including Carte Blanche in this wonderful roundup of great Playdate games. Blanche is honored to be in such great company.

www.engadget.com/gaming/best-...

The best Playdate games for 2025

Here are some of the best games available on the Playdate Catalog. That includes puzzles, platformers, shoot ‘em ups, dungeon crawlers and high score chasers too strange to categorize.

www.engadget.com

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Apr 27

It's International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day!

Today, we celebrate our own friendly little raven, Blanche. She's always willing to make time for a game, teach you how to play, and share her treasures with you when you win.

Thanks for being awesome, Blanche.

#playdate #cardGames #indieDev

An illustrated white-feathered raven holding a playing card in her beak and standing on a hand of cards. Behind her is a corner of windows, with green trees outside.

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Apr 25

Spades is a fun trick-taking game, commonly for four players. But if you’re low on players, that’s no problem!

Blanche loves to spend an afternoon drafting, bidding, and taking tricks—all with just two players. See how it works: youtu.be/ZiXAz4gSwE4

#cardGames #playdate #indieGame

Carte Blanche — Gameplay: Spades

YouTube video by How Seven!

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Apr 12

Weekends are a great time for hobbies: card games, cross stitch, hanging out with friendly birds…

What sorts of fun are you up to this weekend?

#cardGames #crossStitch #friendlyBirds

A shelf with decorative plants in the background. The foreground features a deck of cards that says “Carte Blanche”, a cross stitch of a white-feathered raven (whose name happens to be Blanche), a Playdate showing the card view for a game called “Carte Blanche”, and a poker-sized deck of hanafuda cards with the title Kiki’s Koi-Koi on it.

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Apr 8

Can you count to 15? How about 31? Well, grab your wooden board, because Blanche has got just the game for you!

Cribbage is a game where your hand of cards is just as valuable as how well you can play them. See how it works: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AtG...

#cardGames #playdate #indieGame

Carte Blanche — Gameplay: Cribbage

YouTube video by How Seven!

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · Mar 25

I love it, thank you!

Carte Blanche is an excellent library of classic card games, translated excellently to the @play.date, for those unfamiliar.

I played cribbage several times…outstanding!

How Seven! @howseven.com · Mar 25

Hope you have a great time with Blanche! (…and all these fine games. You’ve got a lot of great stuff to play in your future, it seems. 😄)

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Mar 25

Hope you have a great time with Blanche! (…and all these fine games. You’ve got a lot of great stuff to play in your future, it seems. 😄)

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Mar 24

It might not sound like the sort of game a friendly raven like Blanche would play, but Spite & Malice is one of her favorites!

A simple game of stacking cards, familiar to players of solitaire classics like Klondike. See how it works: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzXA...

#cardGames #playdate #indieGame

Carte Blanche — Gameplay: Spite & Malice

YouTube video by How Seven!

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Andrew Lokken @andrewlokken.bsky.social · Mar 17

Check out my short review of Carte Blanche by @howseven.com for @play.date ! It’s a game that’s quickly become part of my nightly routine.

quartercircleforward.blog/2025/03/16/c...

Carte Blanche Review

Not every video game needs to be an epic adventure that breaks new ground. Sometimes, it’s nice to just have an easy and convenient way to play a classic card game or two. This is the category of g…

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Mar 15

Shipping out some cards right now! Get some of your own for your next game night.

Some decks of Carte Blanche cards, with some shipping supplies.

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Mar 15

The VOD’s up if you’d like to catch up on the antics, hijinks, and tomfoolery: www.youtube.com/live/AK3cg19...

Carte Blanche | 1 | Trials & Sibulations

YouTube video by Ryan DiGiorgi

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Mar 15

@rdigiorgi.bsky.social is about to play some Carte Blanche on his stream! Stop by: www.twitch.tv/rdigiorgi

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Mar 14

The Carte Blanche cards have arrived!

If you’d like to try out some of the new card games you’ve learned from Blanche with friends and family, you can now pick up a raven-approved deck of your own!

shop.howseven.com/collections/...

#cardGames #indieDev

A box filled with packaged decks of cards labeled “Carte Blanche”

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How Seven! @howseven.com · Mar 10

I’m glad Blanche could be of some help! 😄

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Quinston Timeclock @jessefuchs.bsky.social · Mar 9

This bird taught me an excellent two-player Spades variant and helped me finally nail down the byzantine building rules of Cassino. Honestly NYU should have paid for my copy as some sort of adjunct development grant.

How Seven! @howseven.com · Mar 9

"Carte Blanche is one of – if not the – most pleasant games I’ve ever played. It’s 'cozy' in a way that modern 'cozy games' are not." — @thegamellama.bsky.social, Playdate Unofficial (www.playdateunofficial.com/the-games/ca...)

Sunday afternoons were made for card games.

www.carteblanche.cards

Carte Blanche — Playdate: The Unofficial Website

Let a bird teach you card games

www.playdateunofficial.com

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