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LiSkat: Free real-time Skat with Elo and bots

LiSkat: Free real-time Skat with Elo and bots

by iNic·Jun 29, 2026·3 points·1 comment
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AI Analysis

●●SolidNiche GemCozy

Monte-Carlo bidding AI for 200-year-old German card game nobody digitized well.

Strengths
  • •Self-play search tunes linear model weights for card play decisions
  • •Monte-Carlo rollouts handle bidding and declaring strategy separately
  • •No signup required to practice against bots lowers friction
Weaknesses
  • •Skat is niche outside German-speaking regions, limited audience
  • •Zero queue times suggests small active player base currently
Category
Gaming
Target Audience

Skat players, card game enthusiasts, AI hobbyists

Similar To

Board Game Arena · Trickster Cards

Post Description

Skat is a ~200 year old 3-player German trick-taking card game. I built a free site to play it online, solo against bots or with other people (matchmaking and Elo).

The bots are what I keep tinkering with. Card play is a linear model over hand features, with the weights tuned by self-play search. Bidding and declaring use Monte-Carlo rollouts.

No signup needed to practice against the bots. It's all TypeScript (Svelte plus a small WebSocket server).

GitHub: https://github.com/nic-kup/liskat

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