World's Best Card Game Website

It's hard to say "world's best" about anything, especially websites, since there are now an average of about 94 websites per capita in all of the world wide web.  That's right, Kardball fans, 644 million websites serving about 6.8 billion starving humans.  In fact, you're looking at one right now!

And Now, Back to our Program

The world's best card game website is pagat.com, published and maintained by John McLeod.  It's truly an astonishing collection of information about card games of all kinds (as well as tile games, like dominoes or Mah-Jhongg), including history, rules, and variants that are played around the world.

Among the many sections on this site is the page of "Invented Games," meaning card games that have no particular historical legacy because they were just made up by ordinary blokes like you and me.

This was the best place to list Kardball, since there is no category of "Card Games of Divine Revelation."  The Kardball listing redirects you to kardball.com.  The one-line description written by Mr. McLeod says the following:

A two-player baseball simulation played with a standard 52-card pack, invented by Jeffrey Pierce.

NB

(nota bene, meaning "note well") Kardball is a baseball simulation for two teams (not individual players, though you can play with just two people.)

With this, the latest of Earth's 644 million websites to contain a link to Kardball, we can proudly say that we are linked by the following percentage of all websites.

0.000000465%

PS

(post scriptum, meaning "after what has been written") After follow-up correspondence with Mr. McLeod, he has very kindly revised the description to say this:

A baseball simulation played between two teams of players with a standard 52-card pack, invented by Jeffrey Pierce.

Daily Ritual

One Kardballer tells us how his daily game keeps him sane (which is what all rituals are designed to do, right?)

His order of the day: morning coffee, followed by dog relief, TV news, and Kardball on the iPad.  Then comes a shower, a shave, a good morning kiss, and the long commute to work.

Can You Relate?

The way we look at it, Kardball rates higher than personal hygiene, relationships, and gainful employment.  

And to continue this line of reasoning, it's surpassed in importance only by drinking, peeing and watching TV.   Which, come to think of it, is also an excellent bedtime ritual.

Kardball on iPad

Have you seen it?  Yes, the Kardball app for iOS works splendidly on the New iPad, the Old iPad, the Really Old Original iPad, and the iPad of the Future.  Available now in the App Store.

When you first launch it, you may see a smaller high resolution view of Kardball.  But simply touch the "2x" button in the lower right corner and BAM! wall-to-wall eye-popping full-color Kardball.   Fantastic for us kids over forty.

Coming soon:  hand-free voice-controlled Kardball with supermodels.