Guides & Resources
Rules, printing tips, and ideas to get the most out of your custom matching card game.
Game Rules
How to play Dobble and Spot It: the golden rule, scoring, and five popular game modes explained step by step. Free printable rules.
Game RulesDIY Print Guide
Print, cut and laminate your own Dobble cards at home. Paper weight (GSM), printer settings and the right circle cutter, step by step.
DIY Print GuideThe Maths
Why every two Dobble cards share exactly one symbol, where 13, 31 and 57 come from, and why the shop deck has 55 cards but the full set has 57.
The MathsBirthday
Make a personalised Dobble / Spot It game for a birthday party. Upload party and family photos, print in 10 minutes. First deck free.
BirthdayClassroom
Build your own card sets for vocabulary, letters, times tables and more. Free for teachers: upload images, print and play. No app needed.
ClassroomPreschool
Make a Dobble deck for 2–5 year olds: first words, letters, numbers, animals and colours. 13 cards with 4 symbols keeps it simple. Free to start.
PreschoolWedding
Create a Dobble / Spot It game for your wedding using photos of the couple. A fun reception activity and a keepsake favour. Free to design.
WeddingGifts
Turn your photos into a card game worth keeping. A personalised Dobble deck for anniversaries, grandparents, Christmas or a family far away.
GiftsFor Business
A custom matching card game for onboarding, away days, trade fairs and client gifts. Put faces, products or your logo on the cards. Design free.
For BusinessBrowse by topic
Five routes through everything we have written about making, printing and playing your own matching card game.
Make your own deck
Start from your own photos: upload images, cut out the backgrounds with AI, pick 13, 31 or 57 cards and let the generator work out the symbol combinations for you.
Print and cut at home
Paper weight, printer settings, circle cutters and laminating — everything that decides whether your cards feel like a real game or like paper.
Rules and game modes
The golden rule of the game, how scoring works, and five popular ways to play with the same deck, from the fastest to the most chaotic.
Classroom and learning
Vocabulary, letters, times tables, foreign-language sets: how teachers turn a matching deck into a lesson that a whole class actually wants to play.
Birthdays, weddings and gifts
Deck ideas built around people rather than topics — party photos for a birthday, couple photos for a wedding, family photos as a present.
Ready to make your own?
Every guide here ends in the same place: the generator. Upload your photos and download a print-ready PDF — the first 13-card deck is free.
Open the generator