Pair It — The Pirate Game
Single Player vs. Computer • art from the real printed deck
YOU
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Round 1 · First to 300 wins
COMPUTER
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Computer's Hand
Draw Pile
Discard Pile
Your Hand
How I interpreted the rulebook (worth a skim before you play)
- Deck composition (108 cards): the manual lists card types but not exact counts, so I built: 64 regular cards (one of every Color × Number × Picture combo), 4 Gold Treasure, 4 Pirates, 4 Shipwreck, 4 All Hands On Deck, 4 Fire the Cannon, 4 Draw 3, 4 Anchor, and 16 Reverse (4 per color) — adjust if you have the real breakdown.
- 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 to be played.
- 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: doesn't change the required color/number/picture — it's a free play that also grants one bonus card play.
- All Hands On Deck / Fire the Cannon / Anchor+Reverse combo: each lets the player who triggered it lock in ONE attribute (color, number, or picture) — only that attribute must match on the very next play.
- 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 108-card build. Say the word if you'd like it added as a new action-card kind.