Decks, draws & bags
A deck or pile is just a zone that stacks its contents — you see the top card (or a back) and a count badge. Bags are the same idea for a random pull. As always, taybl doesn’t police any of this: a draw is just moving the top item somewhere.
Drawing and dealing
Only the top card is a drag handle on a stacked deck. To take it, drag the top card off to wherever it should go — your hand, a play area, a board cell. The rest of the pile stays put. For the common moves, right-click the deck to open its container inspector (below), or use the keyboard while hovering the pile:
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Draw to hand | Drag the top card into your hand, or press D while hovering the deck |
| Deal to all | The deck’s Deal to all action (or Shift+D) sends one card to every seat |
| Draw from bottom | Offered on the deck menu / inspector — pulls the bottom card |
| Discard top | Sends the top card to a discard zone |
| Cut | Splits the pile at a random point |
| Collect all | From a play area, gathers cards back into a chosen deck |
| Fill | Tops a display row back up from a draw source |
Shuffling — including the shake gesture
Shuffle a deck from its menu or inspector, or with S while hovering it. The tactile way is to shake: grab the top card as if to drag it, then wiggle it back and forth a couple of times without letting go. After a few quick direction reversals the pile shuffles and flashes “Shuffled!” — the same motion you’d use to riffle a real deck. Shuffling is offered only when there are at least two cards to permute.
Bags — a random draw
A bag zone (a cloth pouch of tiles, cubes, or chits) draws a random item rather than a known top. Two ways to pull from one:
- Drag the pouch onto a destination zone (your hand, a play area) — taybl draws one random item out and drops it there.
- Right-click the bag and choose Draw from bag → … to send a random item to your hand or the table.
The container inspector
Left-click (or right-click) a deck, pile, or hand to open the container inspector — a popup that lists the whole zone and gives you finer control than a drag:
| In the inspector | What it does |
|---|---|
| Peek | Privately look at the top N cards — only you see them |
| Reveal | Show the top N cards to the whole table (widen or narrow the count) |
| Reorder | Drag revealed rows to reorder the pile; drag a row out to pull that card |
| Search / Browse | Look through the entire pile to find a specific card |
| Shuffle / Draw / Deal | The same pile actions, as buttons |
Peeking and searching are private by design — they model looking at your own cards at a real table — and are noted in the activity history so the table has a record that you looked. Building the decks themselves (their cards and shared back image) happens in the Studio; see decks.
Related
- Decks — building a deck of cards in the Studio
- Handling pieces & cards — acting on a single card
- Your hand & private zones — where drawn cards land
- Zone visibility — face-down vs. revealed contents