Verdict
cardgames.io appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | CardGames.io is an established browser-based site offering classic card and board games for free, monetized via advertising and cookies. Site states no login, stores stats in-browser, and provides clear contact/support and privacy policy information. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 12 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Amazon RSA 2048 M04 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
CardGames.io is an established browser-based entertainment site presenting a broad catalogue of free classic card, solitaire, board, and casual games. Its apparent business model is advertising- and cookie-supported access without account registration or payment, with game state and statistics stored locally in the browser.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed across the site content, technical evidence, and external reputation signals. The homepage presents a coherent games-and-entertainment purpose, while the About, FAQ, Contact, and privacy-policy pages provide supporting context rather than financial, investment, or credential-harvesting claims. The site does not present a login form, sensitive payment form, cryptocurrency function, or suspected brand impersonation. External reputation checks reported no malicious or suspicious detections, and the site has a strong global traffic footprint. These signals support an apparently legitimate, low-risk website, although they do not independently prove the real-world operator’s identity.
- Homepage: Presents classic card, solitaire, board, and casual games, including Bridge, Hearts, Spades, Chess, Backgammon, and Sudoku.
- Homepage and forms: Three forms were observed, limited to cookie consent, feedback or bug reporting, and beta-code entry; no login or sensitive form was detected.
- External reputation: Malicious detections were 0 and suspicious detections were 0; the site was ranked 1331 in the cited global traffic dataset.
- Domain registration: Registered through Gandi SAS on 2014-12-09 and recorded as 11.69 years old, with expiration on 2030-12-09.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s business model is informational entertainment rather than a regulated financial service, so the absence of a claimed financial license is not itself a fraud indicator. The available pages provide contact, FAQ, About, and privacy-policy information, but the supplied evidence does not independently verify the operating entity or establish a regulatory registration. The published operator record identifies Raudas Hugbunadur ehf, while the evidence does not independently connect that entity to the website; this remains an identity-verification consideration rather than an identity contradiction. The domain is registered through Gandi SAS, and the site uses Amazon hosting with valid domain-validated transport encryption. No matching third-party broker warning was identified.
- Contact, About, FAQ, and privacy-policy pages: These pages are linked from the site navigation and provide stated support and privacy information.
- Hosting: Served from AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US).
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by Amazon RSA 2048 M04, validation level DV, valid to 2027-02-15T23:59:59+00:00.
- Registration record: Recorded registrant is Raudas Hugbunadur ehf.
What to Verify Next
Before any future credential or payment interaction, an independent check should confirm that the stated operator and official support channels correspond to the intended website. Standard review of the privacy-policy and cookie choices is appropriate because advertising and analytics support the service. If the site later introduces paid features, account registration, or another regulated activity, the applicable merchant identity, refund terms, payment protections, and any relevant registration should be checked independently before proceeding.
- Site navigation: Provides direct links to About, FAQ, Contact, and privacy-policy pages.
- Business-model description: States that no login or payment is required and that game state is stored in the browser.
- Privacy and consent controls: The page includes a cookie-consent mechanism and describes advertising and analytics use.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website with a low-risk interaction profile and no observed scam or impersonation contradictions. The overall trust posture is high, while the connection between the website and a real-world operator remains likely rather than independently proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
No specific protective CDN/WAF control is confirmed in the supplied infrastructure facts, so infrastructure-based mitigation is not attributed. The confirmed Amazon hosting and valid TLS support basic service and transport integrity, but neither is proof of operator legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing is proportionate to the assessed posture; any later request for credentials, payment, or materially different services should trigger the independent identity, terms, and payment-protection checks described above.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of cardgames.io.
- The request stayed on cardgames.io. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Gandi SAS. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by co.uk, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2030-12-09. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Gandi SAS |
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| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2600:9000:2368:6c00:14:a350:700:93a1 |
| Name servers | ns-1650.awsdns-14.co.uk, ns-1372.awsdns-43.org, ns-424.awsdns-53.com, ns-917.awsdns-50.net |
| SSL issuer | Amazon RSA 2048 M04 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-02-15 |
| Domain age | 11.69 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2030-12-09 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about cardgames.io at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.