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A husband-and-wife team making fun stuff to play on your phone, tablet, and elsewhere.

Our latest: Carte Blanche (https://www.carteblanche.cards)

Website: https://www.howseven.com
Merch: https://shop.howseven.com
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How Seven! @howseven.com · Feb 25
Carte Blanche is available now! ♥️♣️♦️♠️

Learn and play five classic card games with a friendly raven. Only on @play.date.

Catalog: play.date/games/carte-...
Itch: howseven.itch.io/carte-blanche

Site: www.carteblanche.cards
Merch: shop.howseven.com/collections/...

#indieDev #gameDev
A promotional image of Carte Blanche. The title is shown at the top. Blanche, a white-feathered raven, is standing on a plant, holding a card in her beak. Her black cat, Carte, is sleeping on a chair on the left side. In the center, there is a Playdate console, showing a screenshot of Carte Blanche: a game of Cribbage in progress.
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I genuinely—without trying to make a joke or reference—said out loud earlier today: "There are seven cans in there? How seven‽"

…while also wearing this shirt.
My torso, wearing a purple shirt that says “How Seven!”
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Happy Halloween! 🎃

Ravens are scary, right? What about kind, gentle white-feathered ones? …who like card games?

She gives out trinkets! (And pennies, but you'll like them more than when that old lady down the street handed them out.)

Carte Blanche is 20% off on Catalog: play.date/games/carte-...
Carte Blanche for Playdate
Five classic card games. One classy raven.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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It's a great time to add to your Playdate library: the Catalog Fall Sale has begun! Blanche is on sale, along with over 200 other fantastic titles!

Also, all our merch is on sale: 20% off everything. Get yourself a nice deck of cards for cozy autumn game nights. shop.howseven.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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In case you weren't aware: we hide a bunny in each of our games. Have you found any of them yet? #indieDev
A lot of bunny-shaped icons on a green background
October 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Today's the last day of the 2025 Augustravaganza sale! Pick up some great games at low, low prices. (…including this one game that has a bunch of card games and a bird and a slot machine and prizes and a bird, did I mention the bird?)

Also, you can buy some cards: shop.howseven.com/en-usd/produ...
rae.wtf rae @rae.wtf · Aug 1
the second installment of the playdate community sale, augustravaganza 2025, is here!! over 60 titles, on sale all week!

head to play.date/games/tags/o... to see what's on sale — something from your wishlist? something you've never even heard of? — and pick up some new games to ring out the summer!
Flat, bubbly promotional poster with a yellow background and green accents. "2025 Playdate Community Augustravaganza! Over 60 games on sale, across all genres and styles! Runs from August 1st to August 7th, pacific time." There's a link to the catalog sale page, and a variety of Playdate game thumbnails lining the bottom of the frame.
August 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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The sale's still going through tomorrow, so let's do it again. We'll be live in 15 minutes:

YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/3zvkQSS...
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/howseven
howseven.com How Seven! @howseven.com · Jul 31
We'll be streaming some gameplay of our @play.date game "Carte Blanche" on our YouTube and Twitch channels this Saturday, August 2 at 3pm (ET).

Join @theoddlinguist.bsky.social for a cozy afternoon of card games and friendly birds.

Visit www.carteblanche.cards#live for more details!
A video thumbnail titled "How Seven! Plays: Carte Blanche". The title is set on an angled background, colored with the How Seven! magenta color. The right side of the thumbnail shows the Carte Blanche title on a yellow Playdate console in front of a window with green trees behind it. The screen is showing a cribbage game in progress.
August 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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We’re live! Grab a drink, find a cozy chair, and join us for some card games.

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLUK...
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/howseven
howseven.com How Seven! @howseven.com · Jul 31
We'll be streaming some gameplay of our @play.date game "Carte Blanche" on our YouTube and Twitch channels this Saturday, August 2 at 3pm (ET).

Join @theoddlinguist.bsky.social for a cozy afternoon of card games and friendly birds.

Visit www.carteblanche.cards#live for more details!
A video thumbnail titled "How Seven! Plays: Carte Blanche". The title is set on an angled background, colored with the How Seven! magenta color. The right side of the thumbnail shows the Carte Blanche title on a yellow Playdate console in front of a window with green trees behind it. The screen is showing a cribbage game in progress.
August 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Happy August! Carte Blanche is 20% off through August 7th. Check out www.carteblanche.cards for links and more information.

Also, all our merch is on sale! Get 15% off, or 25% off orders of $50 or more. Get some cards or shirts at shop.howseven.com.

Thanks to @rae.wtf for organizing! #indieDev
August 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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We'll be streaming some gameplay of our @play.date game "Carte Blanche" on our YouTube and Twitch channels this Saturday, August 2 at 3pm (ET).

Join @theoddlinguist.bsky.social for a cozy afternoon of card games and friendly birds.

Visit www.carteblanche.cards#live for more details!
A video thumbnail titled "How Seven! Plays: Carte Blanche". The title is set on an angled background, colored with the How Seven! magenta color. The right side of the thumbnail shows the Carte Blanche title on a yellow Playdate console in front of a window with green trees behind it. The screen is showing a cribbage game in progress.
July 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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No, it's not a typo (well, depending on whom you ask): Cassino is a strategic card game that'll have you planning right to the finish.

Match cards from your hand to those on the table. No matches? Then build the cards you need. See how it works: youtu.be/PXkbgAx6ZPk

#cardGames #playdate #indieGame
Carte Blanche — Gameplay: Cassino
YouTube video by How Seven!
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May 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Big thanks to @cheymac.bsky.social (of @engadget.bsky.social) for including Carte Blanche in this wonderful roundup of great Playdate games. Blanche is honored to be in such great company.

www.engadget.com/gaming/best-...
The best Playdate games for 2025
Here are some of the best games available on the Playdate Catalog. That includes puzzles, platformers, shoot ‘em ups, dungeon crawlers and high score chasers too strange to categorize.
www.engadget.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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It's International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day!

Today, we celebrate our own friendly little raven, Blanche. She's always willing to make time for a game, teach you how to play, and share her treasures with you when you win.

Thanks for being awesome, Blanche.

#playdate #cardGames #indieDev
An illustrated white-feathered raven holding a playing card in her beak and standing on a hand of cards. Behind her is a corner of windows, with green trees outside.
April 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Spades is a fun trick-taking game, commonly for four players. But if you’re low on players, that’s no problem!

Blanche loves to spend an afternoon drafting, bidding, and taking tricks—all with just two players. See how it works: youtu.be/ZiXAz4gSwE4

#cardGames #playdate #indieGame
Carte Blanche — Gameplay: Spades
YouTube video by How Seven!
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April 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Weekends are a great time for hobbies: card games, cross stitch, hanging out with friendly birds…

What sorts of fun are you up to this weekend?

#cardGames #crossStitch #friendlyBirds
A shelf with decorative plants in the background. The foreground features a deck of cards that says “Carte Blanche”, a cross stitch of a white-feathered raven (whose name happens to be Blanche), a Playdate showing the card view for a game called “Carte Blanche”, and a poker-sized deck of hanafuda cards with the title Kiki’s Koi-Koi on it.
April 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Can you count to 15? How about 31? Well, grab your wooden board, because Blanche has got just the game for you!

Cribbage is a game where your hand of cards is just as valuable as how well you can play them. See how it works: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AtG...

#cardGames #playdate #indieGame
Carte Blanche — Gameplay: Cribbage
YouTube video by How Seven!
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April 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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gailsimone.bsky.social
I love it, thank you!

Carte Blanche is an excellent library of classic card games, translated excellently to the @play.date, for those unfamiliar.

I played cribbage several times…outstanding!
howseven.com How Seven! @howseven.com · Mar 25
Hope you have a great time with Blanche! (…and all these fine games. You’ve got a lot of great stuff to play in your future, it seems. 😄)
March 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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It might not sound like the sort of game a friendly raven like Blanche would play, but Spite & Malice is one of her favorites!

A simple game of stacking cards, familiar to players of solitaire classics like Klondike. See how it works: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzXA...

#cardGames #playdate #indieGame
Carte Blanche — Gameplay: Spite & Malice
YouTube video by How Seven!
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March 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Check out my short review of Carte Blanche by @howseven.com for @play.date ! It’s a game that’s quickly become part of my nightly routine.

quartercircleforward.blog/2025/03/16/c...
Carte Blanche Review
Not every video game needs to be an epic adventure that breaks new ground. Sometimes, it’s nice to just have an easy and convenient way to play a classic card game or two. This is the category of g…
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March 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Shipping out some cards right now! Get some of your own for your next game night.
Some decks of Carte Blanche cards, with some shipping supplies.
March 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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@rdigiorgi.bsky.social is about to play some Carte Blanche on his stream! Stop by: www.twitch.tv/rdigiorgi
March 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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The Carte Blanche cards have arrived!

If you’d like to try out some of the new card games you’ve learned from Blanche with friends and family, you can now pick up a raven-approved deck of your own!

shop.howseven.com/collections/...

#cardGames #indieDev
A box filled with packaged decks of cards labeled “Carte Blanche”
March 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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jessefuchs.bsky.social
This bird taught me an excellent two-player Spades variant and helped me finally nail down the byzantine building rules of Cassino. Honestly NYU should have paid for my copy as some sort of adjunct development grant.
howseven.com How Seven! @howseven.com · Mar 9
"Carte Blanche is one of – if not the – most pleasant games I’ve ever played. It’s 'cozy' in a way that modern 'cozy games' are not." — @thegamellama.bsky.social, Playdate Unofficial (www.playdateunofficial.com/the-games/ca...)

Sunday afternoons were made for card games.

www.carteblanche.cards
Carte Blanche — Playdate: The Unofficial Website
Let a bird teach you card games
www.playdateunofficial.com
March 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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"Carte Blanche is one of – if not the – most pleasant games I’ve ever played. It’s 'cozy' in a way that modern 'cozy games' are not." — @thegamellama.bsky.social, Playdate Unofficial (www.playdateunofficial.com/the-games/ca...)

Sunday afternoons were made for card games.

www.carteblanche.cards
Carte Blanche — Playdate: The Unofficial Website
Let a bird teach you card games
www.playdateunofficial.com
March 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Have you tried all the themes on carteblanche.cards? Which one is your favorite?
A screenshot of a drop-down menu from carteblanche.cards. The label says “Theme”, and the options are: Default, Retro Gamer, Neon Purple, Eggplant, Lesser Eggplant, Lagoon, Terminal, Chill, Chill Again, Peach Dreams, and Upsetting
March 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Today’s the last day of our merch shop’s “Carte Blanche” Launch Promo. Get 20% off any order of $50 or more!

Get a shirt with Blanche’s face on it. Or order a deck of cards to play your new favorites with friends and family.

shop.howseven.com

(If you’d prefer radio-style: youtu.be/17SbawE4WIo)
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Official How Seven! merchandise
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March 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM