PaoDeKuai

Think you can outrun me? Play your last card first!

Three players. Sixteen cards. One way out.

PaoDeKuai is a three-player shedding card game. Everyone plays for themselves: there is no landlord and no team. Break up a pair to take the lead, or save a straight for later? Every play changes what you can do next.

This game uses its own three-player rules. The holder of the 3 of Hearts leads, and the opening play must contain any 3. If you can beat the table, you must play; with no legal response, you pass automatically. Kickers for triples and airplanes need not form pairs. A first-play introduction and illustrated examples explain the rules.

A quick round or a longer contest

Play a single round or a three- or five-round series, with easy or hard BOTs and adjustable BOT pacing.

Save an unfinished solo series and return later. Cumulative table scores determine the ranking.

Choose any of 10 classic endgame challenges, or try a daily puzzle rotating through a book of 100 positions.

Hints and auto-play help in standard matches; endgame challenges focus on independent calculation.

Host a room with Steam friends, choose the format, and fill empty seats with BOTs.

Make the table yours

Choose avatars, wallpapers, card designs, music and 10 female dealers. Dealer animations and prerecorded voice lines respond to the match. English UI uses English dealer speech; Simplified and Traditional Chinese share Mandarin speech.

Each cosmetic category includes free options. Others unlock with points earned by playing, and points can also pay for a nickname change. There are no point purchases, cash wagers or cash-outs. Cosmetics confer no gameplay advantage, and losing never deducts spendable points. Login rewards, completed matches and daily puzzles offer points; the in-game rules list the amounts. Fully automated play earns 30% of the base reward, while mixed play is prorated by actual plays.

Before you play

Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and English interface; mouse and keyboard controls.

Friend rooms require an internet connection, Steam login, ownership of the game and matching versions. The host must remain online. Host migration and reconnecting to an interrupted match are not supported.

This is a specific three-player PaoDeKuai ruleset, not Dou Dizhu or Guandan, and it does not include real-money gambling.