About

I made Thievery so my friends and I had a card game we couldn’t find anywhere else: one where everyone can see the colour of your cards but only you know what they are, and the whole game is working out the rest before they work out yours. Once it was up, other things followed. Flashcards to write and trade, Battle for quizzing each other on them, Switchhead for when you want the hands to move under you, and Mind maps for when you’d rather think than play.

It’s one person’s project, made in the UK and kept free. There are no ads and no trackers, and the card game works without an account and always will. If something breaks, or you’ve got an idea for a game, I’d like to hear it.

The name is a joke. The only thing stolen here is cards, from your friends, in a game, and they get them back at the end of the round.

Get in touch

Found a bug, or have an idea for a game? Get in touch with admin@thievery.co.uk.

Credits

The questions in Battle’s subjects come from five published sets. We’ve changed their format and sorted them by subject; the questions and answers are as their authors wrote them.

AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC), by Peter Clark, Isaac Cowhey, Oren Etzioni, Tushar Khot, Ashish Sabharwal, Carissa Schoenick and Oyvind Tafjord at the Allen Institute for AI (2018). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, and the ARC questions as used here are shared under the same licence.
OpenBookQA, by Todor Mihaylov, Peter Clark, Tushar Khot and Ashish Sabharwal at the Allen Institute for AI (2018). Licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
QASC, by Tushar Khot, Peter Clark, Michal Guerquin, Peter Jansen and Ashish Sabharwal at the Allen Institute for AI (2020). Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
SciQ, by Johannes Welbl, Nelson F. Liu and Matt Gardner at the Allen Institute for AI (2017). Licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0, for non-commercial use.
Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU), by Dan Hendrycks, Collin Burns, Steven Basart, Andy Zou, Mantas Mazeika, Dawn Song and Jacob Steinhardt (2021). Used under the MIT licence:

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