Pair It — The Pirate Game

Single Player vs. Computer • art from the real printed deck

YOU

Round 1 · First to 300 wins

COMPUTER

Computer's Hand

Draw Pile

Discard Pile

Your Hand

How I interpreted the rulebook (worth a skim before you play)

Deck composition (98 cards): the manual lists card types but not exact counts, so most of these are still my placeholder guess: 64 regular cards (one of every Color × Number × Picture combo — confirmed against the real card scan), 4 Gold Treasure, 4 Pirates, 4 Shipwreck, 4 All Hands On Deck, 4 Fire the Cannon, 4 Draw 3, and 4 Anchor. Reverse (6 total) is confirmed to the real counts you gave me: 1 per color (Red/Blue/Green/Yellow) plus 2 Wild Reverse. Tell me the real numbers for the rest and I'll match those too.
Wild Reverse: rainbow-bordered, so it's freely playable like Gold Treasure and All Hands On Deck — and just like Gold Treasure, the extra turn it grants can be followed by ANY card, no restriction. It also combos with the Anchor card regardless of the active color.
Matching a regular card: you need TWO matching attributes with the active card — color + number, number + picture, or picture + color. Matching just one attribute alone isn't enough.
When action cards can be played: only rainbow-bordered cards are wild — that's just Gold Treasure and All Hands On Deck, which are freely playable on any turn. Pirates, Shipwreck, Fire the Cannon, and Draw 3 print with a solid colored border (not rainbow) in the real deck, so — like Reverse — they must match the current active color border to be played.
After a colored-border action card is played: Pirates, Shipwreck, Fire the Cannon, Draw 3, and Reverse don't carry a number or picture — just a color. So once one is on top of the discard pile, the very next card only needs to match that color (e.g. a green Fire the Cannon means any green card is playable next, regular or action) rather than needing to also match some older number/picture requirement.
Pirates: read literally — "next player loses their turn and must steal one card from the hand of the player who dealt the card" — so the skipped player steals from whoever played Pirates (a small consolation for losing the turn), not the reverse.
2-player Reverse: with only one opponent, "reversing direction" has no real effect on turn order, so I implement it as an extra turn for whoever plays it (a common house rule for 2-player Uno-style games).
Gold Treasure: a free play that grants whoever played it one bonus play right away (same player goes again) — and since it's rainbow/wild, that bonus play is wide open: any card can be played, no color/number/picture restriction.
Fire the Cannon: give a card to another player, then the next play must match Fire the Cannon's own border color — same color-only reset as Pirates/Shipwreck/Draw 3.
All Hands On Deck / Anchor+Reverse combo: whoever PLAYED the card (or completed the combo) gets to lock in ONE attribute (color, number, or picture) — only that attribute must match on the very next play. This applies whether you or the computer played it.
Anchor: an Anchor is never legal alone — you need a Reverse card to "find a Reverse card to play this card." But that one Reverse unlocks ALL the Anchors currently in your hand at once, not just one — play as many Anchors as you're holding in a single move.
All Hands On Deck "slap": simulated as a timed reaction check against the computer, since there's no physical table to slap.
"PAIR IT!" call and scoring-to-300: your latest rulebook text didn't include these, but you weren't sure yet if they're still part of the game — I've left them in for now. Tell me to remove them and I will.
Real card art: every icon, border color, and card layout is cropped directly from the actual printed "Pair It" deck (the "Pair It Cards July 2026" proof folder — 109 scanned card faces). Card interiors, corner numbers, borders, and rule-card icons/wording now match the physical cards.
Color for Pirates! / Shipwreck! / Fire the Cannon! / Draw 3: the physical deck prints these in all four border colors (with a matching colored parrot for Pirates!). The digital deck's data model didn't originally track a color for those kinds, so each of the 4 copies is assigned one of the four colors (by card ID, one per color) — and since only rainbow cards are wild, that color is what must match the active color for the card to be playable, exactly like Reverse.
Not yet added — "Wild Cannon!": the real deck also includes a distinct "Wild Cannon!" card (black border: "Pass two cards to any player"; rainbow border: "Pass a card to any player") that isn't in the current 98-card build. Say the word if you'd like it added as a new action-card kind.