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Welcome to Audio Table

Audio Table is a place to play card, tile, dice and board games online with friends and with people from all over the world. Every table has voice chat. Everything can be played by ear, with a screen reader or with the built-in speech, and the table is also drawn on screen like a real table: green felt, your cards or tiles at the bottom, the other players' name plates around the edge.

You can play in your web browser at audiowander.com/audiotable, or with the Audio Table app for Windows, Android and iPhone. Both use the same server, so friends on different devices sit at the same table.

The games

Card games

Tile and word games

Dice games

Board games

Family, party and solo games

More games

Okey: choose a single hand or a score game over several hands. Arrange your rack by dragging tiles to any slot (touch or mouse); with the keyboard use the Place action and a slot number, or Control+Left/Right in the app.

Every game has its own rules page. Open it from the lobby or at the table (Rules, or R in the app).

All games use play chips and points only. They cannot be bought, sold or traded, and they have no money value. Audio Table has no real-money gambling.

Your account

  1. Choose Register. Pick a name of 3 to 20 letters, numbers or underscores, and a password of at least 8 characters. An e-mail address is optional.
  2. Turn on "Remember me" if this is your own device. You stay signed in for 30 days. Do not use it on a shared computer. You can sign out of every device at once from Settings.
  3. Your name is shown to other players. Never share your password; staff will never ask for it.

The lobby

The lobby lists the open tables: the game, the host, who is seated, free seats, and whether the game is waiting or already playing. From here you can:

At the table

The host can add bots, remove bots, free a seat, change the options and the bot speed, invite players (Invite players in the table menu: friends and online players, or a name), let spectators use voice chat, and start the game when enough seats are filled.

An invite appears as a short message with Join and Not now (in the browser press J to join).

Lounges

A lounge is a table without a game, only for talking (voice and text chat), with a topic. Lounges have their own list in the lobby; join one to chat, or create one with a topic. The owner and co-hosts can change the topic or start a game right there (Start a game here); a lounge closes when the last person leaves.

Co-hosts and owners

The table owner can make people at the table co-hosts. Co-hosts can do everything the host can: add and remove bots, start, change the options and the bot speed, set the table music, invite to a hidden table, and remove someone from the table for 10 minutes. The owner can also hand the table over to someone else. When the owner leaves, a co-host becomes the owner (otherwise a seated player).

Table music

The owner or a co-host can set a music link for the table: a YouTube link or any https audio stream (Set table music in the table menu). Everyone decides for themselves whether to listen: Control+P turns the music on or off for you (it works while typing too), and Control+Shift+Up and Down (or a slider in the browser Settings) set the music volume, separate from the game sounds. Everyone hears the same moment of the song. The music stops for you when you leave the table.

My tables

The owner can save a table (Save this table): game, options, hidden or password, co-hosts, bot speed, topic and music link. Open it again later from My tables in the lobby; up to 20 saved tables. If the server restarts, every open table, seat and running game is saved and restored; sign in again and you are back at your table, and the game goes on.

Pace, results and the next hand

Every table is built the same way, whatever the game:

Everything that happens is announced, has its own sound, and goes into the message buffers, so you can read it again later.

Playing in the browser with a keyboard

At the table

Message buffers (all, table events, chat, private messages, system)

Chat box

Settings in the browser

Playing in the app (Windows, Android, iPhone)

At the table

Message buffers, in every screen

Text fields (they work like the ones in Life in Nature)

Touch screens

In the browser on a phone, use your screen reader gestures as usual: everything is a normal button, list or grid cell.

Turns and the timer

When it is your turn you hear the "your turn" sound and the status tells you what to do. Each turn has a time limit; a ticking sound and a warning play before it runs out. If time runs out, a simple move is made for you. After three timeouts in one game, a bot takes your seat so the others can keep playing. (In Tombala, where everybody marks at the same time, the game simply marks for you and never gives your seat away.)

If you lose your connection or leave during a game, a bot plays for you. Come back within 2 minutes and you can take your seat back.

Keyboard shortcuts

These shortcuts work in every screen, also while you type in a text box (they never take the editing keys Control+A, C, V, X, Z or Y). The one-letter keys for playing are listed above under "At the table".

In the browser (F1 or Control+H shows every key; Control+K opens a list of all commands):

In the app (Windows, and Android or iPhone with a keyboard):

Messages to offline players

You can write a private message to any player, also when they are not signed in. It is kept and delivered when they sign in: you hear that it is stored, and later that they received it. When you sign in, you hear how many private messages arrived while you were away and from whom. Messages (Control+M, or the Messages button) lists your conversations, newest first, with the number of new messages; open one to read it and reply. You can leave up to 20 messages for offline players per hour, and one player can have up to 50 unread messages waiting. Private messages are deleted after 90 days, and players you blocked cannot write to you.

Messages to the staff

Need help, want to report a player or found a bug? Press F3 (in the browser and in the app), or choose Message the staff in the menu or on the touch screen. Choose a topic (Help, Report a player, Bug or Other), write your message and send it. When you are at a table, its number is attached so the staff can look at it; you can switch that off. For a report you can add the player's name. The staff answer with a private message, also when you are offline: you get it when you sign in. My messages to the staff shows what you sent and the answers. You can send up to 3 messages in 10 minutes and 10 a day, and up to 5 can wait for an answer at the same time.

Bots

Bots fill empty seats so you can always play, even alone. Each bot has a level:

Bots wait a moment before each move so the game is easy to follow by ear.

Voice chat

Every table has its own voice channel. Turn your voice on to talk and hear the others at your table; turn it off whenever you like.

Voice chat in a browser needs a recent version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox. If yours cannot do it, the page tells you, and everything else still works.

Text chat, private messages and commands

You can chat at your table or in the lobby, and send a private message to any player. Messages can be up to 300 characters. Links are removed. Please read the Rules before you chat.

Chat commands start with a slash:

Staff members have more commands and a staff-only chat (T in the browser, Shift+Slash in the app); see the Staff guide.

Progress, quests and tournaments

Everything here is play chips, points and looks only -- nothing can be bought.

In the browser press G (or the My progress button) for all of this; in the app choose My progress in the lobby, and Play now in the game options menu.

Friends, profiles and messages

Reporting and blocking

Open a player's name and choose Report, write what happened, and send it. Staff see the report with the time and the table. Choose Block to stop all voice, chat and private messages from that player; your block list is kept in your account.

Ratings and statistics

Each game keeps your games played, wins and a rating. The rating changes only in games with at least one other person; games against bots alone do not change it. Leaderboards show the best players of every game.

Sounds

Each kind of event has its own sound, so you can follow the game without listening to every word:

You can change the volume in Settings.

Languages

Audio Table speaks English, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi. Choose your language in Settings; the game texts, rules and announcements follow it.

Help and safety

Have fun, and good luck at the table!