Dirty Hands

Twenty-one against a card sharp, in a room where playing fair gets you nowhere.

The cards are real things in your hands — and you can ruin them.

He counts chips, lights a cigarette, yawns, watches the rain — and then his eyes come back to you. Get caught three times and you are thrown out.

Leave too much evidence on the table and he gets suspicious. And he cheats too: if a card reaches his hand from somewhere other than the deck, catch him by the wrist.

Reach 60 chips and he stakes the whole bank on one last hand.

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A short demo — one table, one dealer, about fifteen minutes, three endings. English and Russian; the language is in Settings.

Controls

• Mouse — everything: pick a tool, hold or drag on a card
• 1–4 — hand, pen, fingernail, tear
• Space — hit / catch him · Enter — stand
• C — toss a coin · M — music · Esc — pause

Everything on screen is drawn in code and every sound is synthesized — there is not a single image or audio file in the game.

Feedback is very welcome: tell me where it was too easy, too hard, or unclear.