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Who makes the site
InkNod is built and run by Web Loft SRL, a small web development company in Bucharest. The operator’s full details — registered office, tax ID, the address for data requests — are in the Privacy Policy and in the footer of every page.
This isn’t a games portal with hundreds of titles. It’s 9 games — the ones we grew up with — and 10 guides about them. The site is free and nobody plays for money: it’s paid for by ads, which appear only on the pages you read, never at the table. Anything to do with money is in the Terms and Conditions, and ads are covered in the privacy policy.
Where the rules come from
Every game here runs on the server, in a game engine that applies the rules on every move: who can play what, when to draw, who takes the trick, how the score adds up. Each game’s rules page describes exactly that engine, not a version read in a book and written up on the side. The number of cards in your hand, for instance, isn’t typed in by anyone: it’s counted from a deck dealt by the engine itself. When the engine changes, the page changes with it, and the date under the title says when.
Romanian card games have no official rulebook: every table in the country plays a little differently. That’s why each rules page has a section called “Do you play it differently?”, with the variants we know and an honest answer on whether they’re played here. What we don’t know for sure — a game’s origin, say — we say we don’t know.
Poker is the exception: tournaments have written rules, from the Tournament Directors Association, and where they settle something — the dead button, the minimum raise, the short all-in, side pots — we followed them to the letter.
For Backgammon we followed the international rules, with two departures spelled out on the game’s page: there is no three-point win, and the doubling cube is in play only if the host chooses it.
Tile Rummy is Romania’s lay-down rummy, played with tiles. It too varies from table to table, so our choices are written on the game’s page: you can take only the last tile discarded, not any tile in the row, and the indicator stays in view and can’t be taken.
For Chess we followed the FIDE rules, with a single departure, noted on the game’s page: the third repetition of a position and 50 moves without a capture end the match on their own, with no one having to claim the draw — the way it’s played on the big chess sites.
How the guides are written
A guide appears here only if it answers a question someone really asks before playing — what works with two, what a child should start with, Macao or Seven Cut — and only if it can be written by someone who has played the games. That’s why there are few: what could be said honestly has been said, and where we had nothing to say, we didn’t write the page.
It shows in the text. The guide to two-player games says Liar Liar does not work with two, even though recommending it would have been easier. These aren’t blog posts, and they don’t multiply to chase keywords. All guides.
If we got something wrong
A rule written differently from how it plays at the table, a variant we don’t mention, a mistake in the text — write to us on the contact page. We read every message and answer every one; a correction goes into the rules at the next update, with the date under the page title changed.
What happens at the table — a player swearing, someone ruining the match — gets reported from inside the game, from the player’s name, and goes to moderation. How moderation works is set out in the Terms and Conditions.