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Tamalou01

The French memory card game, played in the browser and made for the phone — solo against bots, around one phone, on the local network or online with a room code.

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Three phone screens of Tamalou in the dark theme: the setup screen, the opening hand with two cards to memorise, and a drawn nine of spades.
A turn against three bots: their face-down cards at the top, the deck and the discard pile, four hidden cards below, and the Draw, Take the discard, Tamalou! and quick-discard buttons.
Your turn — draw, take the discard, or call Tamalou
A drawn nine of spades shown beside the deck, with the player's four cards highlighted to swap it in, and a Discard button.
Swap the drawn card in, or discard it
The opening hand: two face-down cards above a jack and a two of hearts, with the prompt to memorise them before they turn over.
Memorise two cards, then they flip
The rules screen: Classic, Quick and Beginner presets, then sections for the deck, card values, hand, powers, quick discard and the end of the round.
Every rule is the host's to set
The same turn in the light theme.
Light or dark, from the system
The setup screen in the light theme: game mode, name, number of opponents, bot level and rule presets.
Setting up a solo game
Timeline
Oct 2026 —
Role
design + build
Author
Steeve Pommier
Stack
TypeScript, React, Vite, Motion, Node.js, WebSocket, Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, Docker
AI
Vibecoded

Four cards face down, a bit of memory and a bit of nerve. Each player sees two of their four cards once, then draws, swaps and discards to bring their total down, and calls “Tamalou!” to end the round when they think they hold the lowest hand.

The game as it is played at home

Powers trigger only when a card drawn from the deck is discarded straight away: a 7 or 8 to peek at one of your own cards, a 9 or 10 at an opponent's, a jack for a blind swap, a queen to look and then decide. Anyone, even out of turn, can lay a card of the same rank as the top of the discard pile — the quick discard; a wrong one costs a penalty card. Red kings are worth nothing.

None of that is fixed: before the game, the host sets every rule — values, powers, penalties, the end of the game — starting from the Classic, Quick or Beginner preset, and can share the result as a link or a JSON file.

Four ways to play

ModeHow
SoloAgainst one to five bots, offline once installed
One phonePassed around the table
Local networkA small Node server, run from a Docker image on a home server; players scan a QR code
OnlineA temporary room on Cloudflare, joined by code, link or QR code, no account

The engine is pure: a game replays identically from its seed and its actions, and each player only ever receives their own filtered view. The bots play from that same view — easy plays at random, medium remembers imperfectly, hard remembers everything, estimates the unknown cards and picks its moment to call Tamalou.

It installs as an app, plays in French or English, with sounds and vibration.

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