Testing guide

• Any device works: a phone (upright or sideways), a tablet or a computer, in an up-to-date browser such as Chrome, Safari or Edge.
• Signing in: use Continue with Google with the Google account Tim added for you. If it says you aren't allowed, tell Tim which Google address you used. Signing in with an emailed code doesn't work for testers yet.
• The first time, you choose a display name (the name other players see) and confirm you're 13 or older.
• The tables may need waking up. If nobody has played for a while, you'll see “Waking up the tables…” for up to a minute. That's normal for the test version.
• A game can end without warning when Tim puts out a new version: the tables restart. Just start again.
• Poker uses play chips only. They're worth nothing, can't be bought, and nothing can be won.

• The lobby is the first screen: a green table with a greeting, then a tile for each game's room. Tap a room to go in.
• In a room, you choose how to play:
  • Practice with Club Bots: just you against the computer players.
  • Find me a seat: joins the best public table, or opens one.
  • Open a public table: anyone can join you. Club Bots fill the empty seats until people arrive.
  • Host a private table: only for people Tim has made hosts. It gives you a link and a 6-letter code to send to the people you want at your table.
• To join someone's private table, open the link they sent, or type their code into Have a table code? on the lobby's green table.
• Stepping away from a private table: if you leave during a game, a Club bot plays your seat. Back to your table on the lobby (or the game's room) takes you back to it.
• At a table, the ? button in the corner has How to play, Show the last trick, Check the deal, Full screen (where your browser allows it) and Invite a friend. The door leaves the table.
• Your profile menu (your initial, top right) has your profile, friends, stats, solitaire and sign out. The gear is your settings: the Club Bots' level, game speed, a four-color deck, quick play, reduced motion and more.

• Put the Club on your home screen. You get an icon that opens the Club like an app, with no browser bar.
  • iPhone (Safari): open the Club, tap Share (the square with an arrow pointing up), scroll down, tap Add to Home Screen, then Add.
  • Android (Chrome): open the Club, tap the ⋮ menu (top right), tap Add to Home screen or Install app, then Install.
  • The first time you open it from the icon, you may need to sign in again. If signing in from the icon doesn't work, tell Tim.
• Full screen: in Chrome on Android (and on tablets and computers), the ? menu at a table has Full screen, which hides the browser bar. Choose Leave full screen to get it back. iPhones don't allow it; use the home-screen icon instead.
• Holding your phone sideways: if the browser bar covers part of the table, swipe up once and it scrolls away. Swipe down to bring it back.

You don't need to do everything. Tick off what you can, and play the way you normally would.

On your own

1. Play a game of euchre against the Club Bots, start to finish.
2. Play a game of Hearts.
3. Play some poker at the practice table.
4. Play solitaire (in the profile menu), in Draw 1 and in Draw 3. Try Undo, Hint, and tapping a card twice to send it home.
5. At the end of a game, tap Check the deal. It should say every check passed.
6. Look at Your stats (in the profile menu) after a few games.
7. Turn your phone sideways during a game, and back again.

Together (two or more people)

8. One person hosts a private euchre table (Tim, or anyone he's made a host) and sends the link. Everyone else joins. Play a whole game.
9. The drop-out test: partway through a game, one person closes their browser or turns off their phone's Wi-Fi for 20 seconds, then comes back. They should be back in their seat. While they're away, a Club Bot plays for them.
10. Try the same with Hearts, and with a poker home game.
11. Open a public table from a room. Someone else taps Find me a seat in the same room and should land at your table.
12. Use table chat (the speech-bubble button). It only offers set phrases; you can't type messages.
13. Add each other as friends. At a table, tap another player's name, then Add as a friend. Then try Invite a friend from the ? menu while your friend is in the lobby.

The big one: four people, four devices

14. Four people on four devices, at one private euchre table. Finish a whole game, and partway through have one person drop out and rejoin (step 9). This is the test that has to pass before the next stage, so please let Tim know how it went.

Tell Tim directly: a text, an email or a note is fine. The most useful report says:

• What you were doing, for example “I played the jack of hearts”.
• What you expected, and what happened instead.
• Your device and browser, for example “iPhone, Safari” or “Windows laptop, Chrome”.
• Roughly when it happened.
• A screenshot, if you can take one.

Also tell Tim about anything confusing, slow or hard to read. “I couldn't tell whose turn it was” is as useful as an error message.

For trouble reading or using the site (text too small, colors hard to tell apart, a screen reader problem), there's also a form on the accessibility page.

The Club keeps very little: your sign-in email, your display name, your settings and your game totals (no history of your games or cards). You can delete your account at any time from your profile, and it's really gone. The details are on the privacy page.