GOPS - Game of Pure Strategy

About GOPS - Game of Pure Strategy

GOPS, also known as Goofspiel, stands for The Game of Pure Strategy, a two-player card game that’s all strategy and no luck! A perfect quickfire challenge for your brain.

Free to play. Track your Stats. Take on smart AIs.

It’s a challenging game for card players of all levels. Do you dare take it on? Compete with our AI in hard mode and try to beat their perfect memory.

Test your brain and have fun at the same time!

Win GOPS by scoring more points than your opponent!

Both players start with exactly the same hand. You are dealt all of the spades and your opponents is dealt all of the hearts, so both players have one of each card value. All of the diamonds are played for during game.

Make GOPS the perfect game for you!
● Choose easy or hard mode
● Choose normal or fast play
● Play in landscape or portrait mode
● Turn single click play on or off
● Sort cards in ascending or descending order

Customise your colour themes and card decks to choose from to keep the landscape interesting!

Quickfire Rules:

Each suit is ranked Ace (low) – King (high).

The aim of the game is to win Diamonds by bidding cards from your own hand against your opponent. Players make ‘closed bids’ for the top, face up, prize Diamond by selecting a card from their hand. These cards are then revealed simultaneously, and the player making the highest bid takes the competition card. Rules for tied bids vary. Either the competition card is discarded, or its value may ‘roll over’ to the next round so that two or more cards are competed for with a single bid card. (see Settings).

The cards used for bidding are discarded, and play continues with a new upturned prize card.

After 13 rounds the game is scored. Points are totalled equal to the sum of the cards won – Ace is worth one point, up to King worth 13 points.