# ajanata/PretendYoureXyzzy

A web clone of the card game Cards Against Humanity.

Repository: https://github.com/ajanata/PretendYoureXyzzy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pretendyourexyzzy
Homepage: https://pretendyoure.xyz/zy
Language: Java
License: BSD-2-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: game, java, javascript, card-game, cards-against-humanity, hibernate, kafka, kafka-producer
Last push: 2023-07-24T15:40:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5322, "days_push": 1136, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1279, forks 397 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:13.562248+00:00)

## What it is
Pretend You're Xyzzy is a web-based clone of the party card game Cards Against Humanity, packaged as a Java web application with both a game server and browser client. Players connect through a web lobby on hosted or self-hosted Tomcat servers to play multiplayer card rounds with friends.

## Use cases
- play cards against humanity online with friends in a browser
- self-host a cards against humanity clone server
- host private multiplayer party card game sessions
- run an open-source CAH-style web game on my own server
- play a fill-in-the-blank card game without installing anything
- find an alternative to paid online CAH services

## When to choose
- you want a browser-based, no-install Cards Against Humanity experience for a group of friends
- you need to self-host a game server for a private group or community
- you run Java/Tomcat infrastructure and want a ready-to-deploy WAR game app
- you want an open-source clone whose rules, card decks, and logging you can inspect and modify

## When to avoid
- you need support for modern application servers - only Tomcat 7 is known to work
- you want a native desktop or mobile app rather than a web client
- you expect a polished, bug-free product - the project itself warns the webapp is still in development
- you need turnkey deployment without extra work - the official build is Maven-based and Docker images are third-party

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: game, http-server, chat-interface
- domain: gaming-tools, entertainment, web-development
- platform: jvm, self-hosted, browser, cross-platform
- tags: cards-against-humanity, card-game, party-game, multiplayer, web-client, java, tomcat, maven, hibernate, kafka, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- ajanata/PretendYoureXyzzy (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.562248+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:02:40.910931+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ajanata/PretendYoureXyzzy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.562248+00:00, sha 86f76718f755)
  - homepage: https://pretendyoure.xyz/zy (fetched 2026-08-29T12:13:18.271077+00:00, sha 03dfaabe6a4d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.