How playing Jass on wyys.ch works
You shouldn’t need an account, a pile of ads or a wait for other players just to play a round of Jass. On wyys.ch you open the page and play. Play on your own against three bots or with friends at your own table, on your phone just as well as on a computer. Here’s how it works and what the site can do.
At the table in two minutes
On the home page you enter the name the others at the table will see. That’s all you need. There is no account, no password and no email address. Then you have three options: play solo against bots, open a table for your friends, or use a code to join a table someone invited you to. Below that is the list of open tables, where you can sit down without a code.
You can play four popular games: Schieber, Coiffeur, Differenzler and Molotow. The game knows all the rules, checks every move and scores every round itself. So you don’t have to count or remember Stöck, and the scoreboard is always right.
Solo against the computer
If you just want to play a round, tap ‘Play solo’. You choose the game, look over the rules and start. Your partner and opponents are bots that play at three strengths: Easy, Normal and Strong. How they think is explained in the article on our Jass bots, and the short page Jass against the computer leads straight into a game.
A solo game runs entirely in your browser. It needs no game server and so starts immediately. Your game is saved in the browser. If you close the page in the middle of a round, the home page offers to continue the game on your next visit.
Playing Jass with friends at one table
Tap ‘Open a table’ and you get a table with a four-letter code. You can read the code out, copy it or share it as a link, for example in your group chat. Your friends open the link, see the table and pick a free seat. In Schieber your partner sits opposite you, just like at a real table. The play Jass online with friends page sums up the essentials.
As the host you set the rules before the game begins: the game, the target score, the multipliers, whether Weis is declared, the Bergpreis and a few more things. You also decide whether to play with Swiss or French cards. The deck applies to everyone at the table. Everyone else sees the same rules, so nobody finds out mid-game that the scoring is different.
If someone is still missing, bots play the empty seats. So you don’t have to wait until the whole group is together. Players who come later take over a bot’s seat, as long as the table allows it. If your table is public, it appears in the list of open tables on the home page, and people without a code can sit down too. A private table doesn’t appear in any list.
During the game you can send each other short messages in the chat. The table can also sort things out itself: by vote it can let a bot play for someone who has left, switch off the chat for everyone or close the table. If need be, the majority can also remove a player from the table.
If your connection drops
On the train or in the basement the connection sometimes drops. Your seat stays yours all the same. The site remembers a random ID in your browser, and with it you get back to your seat as soon as you’re online again. If it takes longer than 20 seconds, a bot plays for you in the meantime, so the others don’t have to wait. When you’re back, you take over your cards again.
A table where nobody is sitting any more is closed after a few minutes. The same happens when nobody has made a move for a long time. That way only tables where people are really playing stay in the list.
Made for the phone
Many people play Jass on their phone on the go, so wyys.ch is built for a phone held upright first. Your cards lie fanned out at the bottom of the screen, big enough for your thumb. Trump, the score, whose turn it is and the Weis are always in view. On a computer it’s the same table, only bigger.
The cards are pictures of real cards. The Swiss deck comes from lithographs from around 1850, the French one from freely usable drawings. The About wyys.ch page says exactly where they come from. You set the pace at the table. Fast suits you if you want to play briskly, and Relaxed gives you time to look at every trick.
Free, without ads and without an account
Playing Jass on wyys.ch costs nothing. The site shows no ads, sets no cookies and asks for no sign-up. Your name, your settings and a running solo game stay in your browser’s storage. At a table the server stores only what the table needs to carry on playing, and deletes it as soon as the table is closed. Chat messages are never stored. All the details are in the privacy notice.
We want wyys.ch to be the site you think of when you want to play Jass online. So it should load fast, take you into a game without detours and score by the rules you know from a Swiss Jass table. If you notice something that isn’t right, write to us using the ‘Report a problem’ link at the bottom of the home page.
New to Jass? Then read the Schieber rules first and the article on Weis and Stöck. After that you’re ready for your first table.