The classic drinking card game, now online
Four cards. Four rounds. One question at a time: can you call what flips next? Guess right and you hand out drinks. Guess wrong and you take one. Play free in your browser with 2-10 friends, whether you share a couch or live on separate continents.
Free forever · No app to download · No account needed · Works on any phone, tablet, or laptop
Round zero · a free sample
Red or black. That's the whole job. See how long your gut holds out before the deck humbles you.
Tap a color. The card doesn't care about your feelings.
That was round one of four. Take it to the table →
The game
The classic pub guessing game. No betting, no bluffing: you get four face-down cards and make one call per round about what flips next. Guess wrong, you drink. Guess right, you pick who does.
This site runs the whole game for you: it deals, tracks turns, and counts every drink. Start a party, share the 4-letter code, and everyone plays live from their own phone.
“Red.” It was the ace of spades. Drink up 🍺
How it plays
Each round, every player makes one call about their next face-down card. The rounds get harder, and the drinks get bigger stakes, as you go.
Call the color of your first card before it flips. The purest 50/50 in card games, and somehow people still get it wrong.
Your odds: 50%
1♥Will your second card beat your first? A 2 or an ace makes this easy money. A 7 or 8 is a leap of faith. Ties lose; the house always wins.
Your odds: it depends…
2♦Does card three land between your first two cards, or outside them? A wide gap begs for inside; a tight pair screams outside. Landing exactly on one of them? That's a drink.
Your odds: read the gap
3♠The finale. Call the exact suit of your last card: hearts, diamonds, spades, or clubs. One in four. Fortune favors the bold; the bold favor another sip.
Your odds: 25%
4♣Getting started
Hit Play Free, type a nickname, and you're the host of a private room. No email, no password, no download.
Every party gets a 4-letter code and an invite link. Drop it in the group chat and friends join from any phone or laptop browser.
The host starts the game and the table takes over: it deals, tracks turns, counts drinks, and crowns the night's biggest loser. You just guess. And sip.
Why players love it
Runs entirely in the browser. Send a link, and even your least tech-savvy friend is in the game before their drink is poured.
Everyone sees the same live table. Play shoulder-to-shoulder at a pregame, or reunite the college group chat across three time zones.
Phone died? Walked out of Wi-Fi? Your seat and your cards are saved. Jump back in and the party never skips a beat.
The table keeps a running tally for every player, per game and for the whole night, and crowns the standings when the cards run out.
Talk trash in the party chat, spam 💀 when someone flips a third straight loss, and feel the buzz on your phone when it's your turn.
A fair shuffle every game, dealt from a full 52-card deck. Nobody stacks it, nobody misdeals, and nobody has to be the sober rules referee.
When to break it out
Fifteen minutes, one deck, whole room warmed up before you head out. The classic use case, perfected.
The missing game night for the long-distance crew. Fire up a call, share a code, and it feels like the old apartment again.
It's called Irish Poker. This is the big leagues. Book March 17th off now.
Bachelor parties, cabin weekends, tailgates: anywhere phones exist and a deck of cards got left at home.
Play it your way. Irish Poker is for adults of legal drinking age, but the game itself doesn't care what's in your cup. Water, soda, or points on a whiteboard work exactly the same. Pace yourself, look after your friends, and never drink and drive.
Everything answered
Quick answers about the game, playing on this site, and the fine print. Can't find yours? Email dcrame2@gmail.com and we'll add it.
Irish Poker is a classic four-round drinking card game. Each player gets four face-down cards and makes one guess per round about their own next card: its color, whether it's higher or lower than their first, whether it lands inside or outside their first two, and finally its exact suit. Wrong guesses drink; right guesses hand a drink to someone else. Full rules, odds, and strategy live in our How to Play guide.
They're cousins. The four guessing rounds are nearly identical, but Ride the Bus adds a pyramid phase and a final "ride the bus" punishment round for the loser. Irish Poker is the faster, cleaner version: four rounds and done, which is exactly why it's the pregame favorite.
Not at all. No betting, no bluffing, no hand rankings. The name is a joke that stuck. If you can guess a coin flip, you're fully qualified.
About 10-20 minutes depending on group size. Four rounds with 4-8 players usually lands around 15 minutes, a perfect pregame length. Rematches are one tap, and drink totals carry across the night so the "tonight" leaderboard keeps score for you.
Absolutely. The game mechanics don't care what's in your cup: water, soda, or "points" work exactly the same. Plenty of groups play it dry as a pure party game. If you do play with alcohol, you must be of legal drinking age, and a "drink" should always mean a sip.
Completely free: no account, no paywall, no premium version. The site is supported by a small number of ads on our content pages. That's the whole business model: you play, the ads keep the lights on.
No. Irish Poker runs entirely in your web browser. Type a nickname, create or join a party, and you're playing. No email, no password, no app store. It works on iPhone, Android, tablets, and laptops, anything with a modern browser.
When you create a party you get a 4-letter code and a shareable invite link. Friends either tap the link or go to the site, hit Join, and type the code. Parties hold up to 10 players.
Yes, that's half the point. Everyone sees the same live table from their own device, wherever they are. Fire up a video call alongside it and it plays exactly like being in the same room, groans and all. There's also built-in party chat and emotes if you'd rather trash-talk in-game.
The game keeps going. Their seat and cards are saved, their turns auto-skip after a short grace period so nobody waits forever, and the moment they reopen the site they're dropped right back into the party with everything intact.
Yes. Every game deals from a freshly shuffled standard 52-card deck on our server. Unrevealed cards are never sent to anyone's device until they flip, so peeking is technically impossible, even for your one friend who "knows computers."
Whoever creates the party is the host 👑. They start the game, launch rematches, and can skip a disconnected player's turn. If the host leaves, hosting passes automatically to another player so the party never gets stranded.
Irish Poker is a drinking game intended for adults of legal drinking age in their country or region. Play the points variation if you're hosting a mixed crowd.
Almost none. No accounts exist; you play under a nickname, and game data lives in memory only for the duration of a party. The privacy policy covers the full details on cookies, analytics, and advertising.
Use the feedback form in the in-game menu (the ☰ button), or email dcrame2@gmail.com. Bug reports, feature requests, and stories about legendary round-four calls are all welcome.
Grab your drink of choice, rally the group chat, and start a party. It takes about ten seconds.
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