How Seven!

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A husband-and-wife team making fun stuff to play on your phone, tablet, and elsewhere. Our latest: Carte Blanche (https://www.carteblanche.cards) Website: https://www.howseven.com Merch: https://shop.howseven.com

Cut and scored rectangles of cardstock for the Mini CD sleeve.
A white-feathered raven holding a playing card in her beak. There's a heart above her head with a line coming out of it, upward out of frame.
A cardboard box that says “Fragile. This side up.” sitting on a table.
An illustrated white-feathered raven holding a playing card in her beak and standing on a hand of cards. Behind her is a corner of windows, with green trees outside.
A black-and-white screenshot of a cribbage game. The player has a 2, 7, 8, 9, and two Kings. It’s the opponent’s crib, and the prompt says “Choose 2 cards to discard to the crib.”
Decks of black-and-white playing cards stacked on top of each other. The front says "Carte Blanche" and features a white-feathered raven with a playing card in her beak.
A video thumbnail titled "Blanche Day 2026". It shows the Carte Blanche game playing on a Playdate.
A game of cribbage in progress. There’s also a Playdate with a matching cribbage game in progress.
The "Carte Blanche" logo on an image of a Playdate in front of green trees, currently showing a game of cribbage in progress. The title at the bottom says "How Seven! Plays Cribbage Day 2026". There's a small tree in the bottom-right corner with a white-feathered raven standing atop it with a playing card in her beak.
A black-and-white deck of cards labeled “Carte Blanche” sitting on a snow-covered wooden railing. The snow is piled up taller than the cards.
A Christmas tree decorated with lights and playing cards.
Carte Blanche For your consideration Blanche would love for you to nominate Carte Blanche! Playdate Community Awards 2025 • Best Puzzle Game • Best Sim/Strategy Game • Best Launch Experience • Best Playdate Soundtrack • Best Sound Design carteblanche.cards/vote
A lot of bunny-shaped icons on a green background
“Carte Blanche” main menu. It looks like an open book with a spread titled “Games” and lists Cribbage, Spite & Malice, Spades, Gin Rummy, and Cassino.
A video thumbnail titled "How Seven! Plays: Carte Blanche". The title is set on an angled background, colored with the How Seven! magenta color. The right side of the thumbnail shows the Carte Blanche title on a yellow Playdate console in front of a window with green trees behind it. The screen is showing a cribbage game in progress.
An illustrated white-feathered raven holding a playing card in her beak and standing on a hand of cards. Behind her is a corner of windows, with green trees outside.
A shelf with decorative plants in the background. The foreground features a deck of cards that says “Carte Blanche”, a cross stitch of a white-feathered raven (whose name happens to be Blanche), a Playdate showing the card view for a game called “Carte Blanche”, and a poker-sized deck of hanafuda cards with the title Kiki’s Koi-Koi on it.
Some decks of Carte Blanche cards, with some shipping supplies.
A box filled with packaged decks of cards labeled “Carte Blanche”
A screenshot of a drop-down menu from carteblanche.cards. The label says “Theme”, and the options are: Default, Retro Gamer, Neon Purple, Eggplant, Lesser Eggplant, Lagoon, Terminal, Chill, Chill Again, Peach Dreams, and Upsetting
A Playdate playing Carte Blanche sitting atop an issue of Uncrank’d Magazine, open to a page talking about Carte Blanche. (The full text of the article is a bit long for the alt text, but we’ll publish it somewhere in the near future.)
A video of a Playdate on a purple background. It scrolls through a list of wrapped presents. Each one is then opened to reveal a game: MidnightDrift86 Eldritch Soul XTRIS Cranky Cove
Some playing cards laying on a purple mat. Some aces, along with a card with the How Seven! logo on it. The card on top shows Blanche sitting at a table, with her cat Carte sleeping in a bed beside her. The card says “You Win!”
A promotional image of Carte Blanche. The title is shown at the top. Blanche, a white-feathered raven, is standing on a plant, holding a card in her beak. Her black cat, Carte, is sleeping on a chair on the left side. In the center, there is a Playdate console, showing a screenshot of Carte Blanche: a game of Cribbage in progress.
A picture of a Playdate showing a black-and-white screen of a gallery. Plinths are lined up side-by-side, each with nothing atop it and a label in front. A menu option that says “Directory” is in the top-left corner.
In the foreground, there’s a Playdate console showing a cribbage game in progress. The Playdate is on a purple mat on a wooden table. Behind the Playdate, the same in-progress cribbage game is being played with physical cards.
A man holding a Playdate console in his hand, showing the screen, which is a title screen for a game that says “Carte Blanche by How Seven!”. Out of focus behind the Playdate, the man’s shirt is dark grey with a yellow Playdate wordmark printed on it.
A black-and-white screenshot of a video game menu. A white raven named Blanche is beside a speech bubble that says: “These are some of my favorite games. We can play any one you’d like!”. The menu is shaped like an open book. There are five options: Cribbage, Spite & Malice, Spades, Gin Rummy, and Cassino.
On a blank background, two players play a card game. One player says "2 for 15". The camera tilts up to reveal the player is a bird, who caws and says "And 3 for a Run of 3!". "Carte Blanche by How Seven!". An overlay says "Five classic card games" and shows a book with Cribbage, Spite & Malice, Spades, Gin Rummy, and Cassino. Short gameplay videos. A bird appears with an overlay reading "One classy raven". More screens: "Learn… With detailed tutorials & rulebooks." "Play… Versus Blanche, your friendly rival." "Win… Fabulous prizes!" Then, the word "Fabulous" is crossed out as one of the prizes is revealed to be a tack with the caption "A tiny metal spike that humans use when they want the papers to be on the wall.". The trailer ends on a living room scene with Blanche, the raven, sitting at a table. A black cat sleeps in a bed beside her. A book says "Carte Blanche by How Seven!". Blanche says "carteblanche.cards", and the cat thinks "Only on Playdate".