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Liskat

Play Skat online, for free.

Inspired by lichess's philosophy — free, open, ad-free,<br>no bots — but built fresh for Skat rather than forked, since Skat (3-player,<br>hidden-hand, trick-taking with bidding) shares almost no game model with chess.

Architecture

A TypeScript monorepo, separating pure rules from transport and UI — the one<br>idea most worth borrowing from lichess.

Package<br>Role<br>Status

packages/engine<br>Pure Skat rules: bidding, round state machine, scoring, match formats<br>✅ done (25 tests)

packages/server<br>Authoritative game server + matchmaking lobby (WebSocket)<br>✅ done (5 tests)

packages/client<br>Web UI: the table and cards (Svelte + SVG)<br>✅ playable

The engine has zero dependencies and runs on Node's built-in test runner<br>and type stripping — no build step.

:8080)">npm install # all workspace deps<br>npm test # run all package test suites (engine + server)

# from the repo root — two terminals:<br>bun run server # game server on :8080 (Bun, hot-reload via --watch)<br>bun run client # web client on :5173 (proxies /ws -> :8080)

Then open http://localhost:5173, pick a nickname, and create or quick-match a table.

The server is plain node:http + ws, so it runs on Bun (bun run server,<br>the default) or Node (cd packages/server && npm run start:node). Bun needs no<br>build flags and gives instant hot-reload.

Graphics

Cards are plain SVG files under packages/client/public/cards//.svg<br>(e.g. french/CJ.svg, french/back.svg). A clean placeholder French deck is<br>generated by npm run gen-deck in the client. To use custom art, just drop<br>replacement SVGs into that folder — no code changes. A german/ deck folder is<br>ready for German-suited cards.

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later, matching lichess.

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TypeScript<br>60.8%

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