Development

Palace Enters Founder Testing

The flagship Four of Hearts experience is in hands-on internal testing, with attention on clarity, feel, and the full table journey.

Blue Palace castle artwork

Testing the whole journey

Founder testing is focused on the moments that make Palace feel like Palace: reading the pile, choosing when to spend a strong card, moving from the hand to the face-up reserve, and trusting the final hidden cards.

Internal Alpha means the experience is still changing. Visual feedback, reconnect behavior, scoring, accessibility, and table clarity all require careful testing before any public release claim would be appropriate.

What visitors can try now

The website includes a short, self-contained teaching preview. It runs entirely in the browser, stores nothing, and is not a production match. Its job is to make the three-layer rhythm understandable in about a minute.

The website preview now teaches the approved Four of Hearts power cards in context: 2 resets, 7 requires lower, 8 is transparent, and 10 burns the pile. These product rules are not presented as universal folk-game rules.

Table settings

Make this table yours.

This table calls it

Palace is used at this table. Nothing is stored.

Traditional table name

Use the uncensored name?

Some adult tables call this game Shithead. This optional display name changes only this browser URL and is never stored.