Jogada press kit

Jogada is an online buraco game made in Brazil. Buraco is the Brazilian branch of the canasta family, and English readers sometimes meet it under the name Brazilian canasta. Below: boilerplate in three lengths, three story angles, the facts you can check, and a direct contact.

Boilerplate

Three lengths of the same description. Take whichever fits the piece and copy it as it stands. Nothing here needs to be cleared with us first.

Short, about 60 words
Jogada is an online Buraco game, the Brazilian branch of the canasta family, made for people who grew up playing cards at home. It runs in a browser and on a phone, in the Aberto, Fechado, Tranca and Raiz variants. The interface is in Brazilian Portuguese today, with Spanish and English in progress. Jogada launched in 2026 and is played at app.jogada.com.br.
Medium, about 120 words
Jogada is an online Buraco game made in Brazil for players over 40, the people who grew up around a card table at home. Buraco is the Brazilian branch of the canasta family: two decks of 104 or 108 cards depending on the variant cards with jokers, eleven cards to each player, two face-down hands called mortos, and melds of seven cards or more called canastras. Jogada carries the four variants played in Brazil, Aberto, Fechado, Tranca and Raiz, at tables of two or four, in pairs. The table is built for calm play: large cards, plain buttons, and no adverts during a hand. The interface is in Brazilian Portuguese today, with Spanish and English in progress. Jogada launched in 2026 and is played in the browser at app.jogada.com.br.
Full, about 355 words

Jogada is an online Buraco game made in Brazil, in Portuguese, for people who grew up around a card table at home. Buraco, which English speakers sometimes meet as Brazilian canasta, is the card game families in Brazil have played across generations: partners, canastras, the morto, and a long argument about who should have gone out. Jogada takes that table to the browser and to the phone without changing the way it feels.

The audience is players over 40, and the interface is built for them rather than for a phone game: large cards that are easy to see, plain buttons, an unhurried pace, and no adverts in the middle of a hand. Tables seat two or four, in pairs. There is an offline mode against the computer, and private tables with an invite code. The game is free in the browser, with nothing to install and no card asked for.

The rules follow the tradition. Two decks. That is 104 cards at the default table and 108 in the variants dealt with jokers, eleven cards to each player, and two face-down mortos of eleven. Melds are sequences of the same suit, and a canastra is a meld of seven cards or more: 200 points clean, 100 points with a wildcard in it, and 100 more for going out. A match runs to 1000, 1500, 2000 or 3000 points, and a first match is set to 1500. Jogada carries the Aberto, Fechado, Tranca and Raiz variants.

Fair play is the point the product is built around, because the loudest complaint about online card games in Brazil is the suspicion of a rigged deck. Every hand at Jogada is dealt from a fresh random shuffle done on the server, the deal is the same for every seat, and there is nothing that can be bought that changes the cards. The Brazilian site describes a further step, a shuffle sealed before the deal and checked once the match is over, at jogada.com.br/jogo-justo/.

Jogada launched in 2026 and is played in the browser at app.jogada.com.br. The interface is in Brazilian Portuguese today, with Spanish and English in progress. The project is Brazilian and independent, and available for interviews at oi@jogada.com.br.

Three story angles

Three stories Jogada can carry. Each one stands on its own, and there is material behind all three.

Can a card game prove it is not dealing off the bottom?
The loudest complaint about online card games in Brazil is the suspicion of a rigged deck, the sense that the shuffle is quietly helping somebody. Jogada deals every hand from a fresh random shuffle done on the server, gives every seat the same deal, and sells nothing that changes the cards. That much is set out on our fair play page. The Brazilian site goes a step further and describes a shuffle sealed before the deal and checked after the match, at jogada.com.br/jogo-justo/, in Portuguese. If that further step is the story, ask us to confirm it before you publish: our English pages stop at the random deal on purpose, and a narrow claim quoted correctly is worth more to both of us than a wide one quoted loosely. The angle underneath is what changes between a game and its players when a suspicion can be settled with evidence rather than argued about.
A card game that is not chasing teenagers
Almost every card game on a phone is designed for people who grew up holding one. Jogada is designed for people who grew up holding a deck of cards, and the whole interface leans that way: large cards, plain buttons, an unhurried pace, no adverts in the middle of a hand. The angle is designing for older players as a discipline rather than as an accessibility afterthought, and what that costs to build and to keep.
The empty seats at the table are not silent
A card game for four has a problem at nine in the evening when only one person turns up. Jogada is being built so the seats that fill a table are not anonymous opponents but companions with names and characters, who talk at the table the way a fourth player would. The angle is what a card game owes somebody who sits down alone, and where the line falls between company and pretence. Ask us what is switched on before you publish this one: it is a design angle, not a number we can hand you.

Facts you can check

What you can state about Jogada today without taking our word for it.

What we are not claiming

The quickest way to stop a wrong figure being printed is to say plainly that we do not have one.

Logos and screenshots

The logo files, the app icon, the social card and screenshots of the table are kept on the Brazilian press page and served from there. We point at the source rather than keeping a second copy here, because two copies drift the day only one of them is regenerated, and a broken download inside a press kit is worse than no download at all.

Logos and screenshots on jogada.com.br/imprensa/. That page is in Portuguese, though the download buttons need no translation. Publish with the credit "Jogada", and please do not stretch or recolour the logo.

Contact

Write to oi@jogada.com.br. The person who makes Jogada reads press email and answers it directly, with no agency in between. Write in English; interviews can be done in English or in Portuguese.

See the table for yourself

The game is free and opens in the browser, so you can look at what you are writing about before you write it.

Open the game

Before you open it: the game still opens in Portuguese. The English text is written and waiting to be published, so a screenshot taken today will be a Portuguese one. Say so if you use it.

Common questions

Can we publish the Jogada logo and screenshots?
Yes, credited to Jogada. The files are on the Brazilian press page at jogada.com.br/imprensa/, which is where they are kept. Please do not stretch or recolour the logo, and leave a little space around it.
Is buraco the same game as canasta?
No. Buraco is the Brazilian branch of the canasta family, and English readers sometimes meet it under the name Brazilian canasta. It melds sequences of the same suit rather than sets of equal rank alone, and each side has a morto, a face-down hand of eleven cards picked up when a player runs out. Calling it canasta in a headline sends the wrong readers.
How many people play Jogada?
We do not publish player numbers, download numbers or revenue, and we would rather say so than hand over a figure we cannot stand behind. Any such number attributed to Jogada did not come from us.

The rules themselves, the deal, the morto and the canastras, are set out on the buraco rules page, and the game itself is described on the English home page.