Boardalo: Chess & Board Games

42 classic board and card games, one purchase, no subscription. Your opponents are illustrated characters who talk, hold grudges, and remember every game you have played against them. Ten games are free. One small purchase unlocks the other 32 forever. No ads. No in-app currency. No account. Works fully offline. NEW: FREECELL, A NEW DECK, AND GAMES ON A VIDEO CALL Solitaire now has FreeCell beside Klondike, Spider and Pyramid, and one tap sends any card to the best place it can go. The card games and Solitaire have a new deck with clearer corners and bigger pips, and five new card backs come with the unlock. And you can play a friend live on a video call: start a game from Play With People and they join from the call. Every game you can play nearby works this way too. FIVE CARD GAMES Cribbage, Gin Rummy, Crazy Eights, Go Fish and German Whist, against the cast or with a friend on one device. Points only: no betting, no chips, no coins. THE COLLECTION (42 games) Chess, Checkers, International Draughts, Russian Checkers, Turkish Dama, Backgammon, Tavla, Go, Xiangqi, Reversi, Nine Men's Morris, Hnefatafl, Oware, Kalaha, Ludo, Chinese Checkers, Halma, Snakes and Ladders, Royal Game of Ur, Yut Nori, Senet, Mahjong Solitaire, Klondike Solitaire, Peg Solitaire, Dominoes, Yatzy, Sudoku, Shut the Box, Sea Battle, Tic-Tac-Toe, Drop Four, Gomoku, Hex, Dots and Boxes, Paper Soccer, Crokinole and Carrom. Plus five card games: Cribbage, Gin Rummy, Crazy Eights, Go Fish and German Whist. OPPONENTS WITH PERSONALITY Digby, Bodge, Lord Grimalkin and Master Yuzu each have their own voice, moods and playing style, and a secret fifth character waits behind them. They keep your head-to-head record, sulk after a losing run, and react to every win, loss and comeback. It is not a difficulty slider; it is a rival worth beating. AN OPPONENT THAT ACTUALLY THINKS Chess, Checkers, Draughts, Reversi, Xiangqi, Oware and Nine Men's Morris run a real search that reads several moves ahead, and Chess plays from an opening book. Difficulty is thinking time, not a fixed depth. The free games include the Standard level, with no random slips, so you can judge it before you spend anything. LEARN ANY GAME IN MINUTES Every game has an interactive, coached "learn to play" lesson. Tap through real moves with a friendly guide. No rulebook, no video, no jargon. PLAY WITH PEOPLE - Pass-and-play on one device, with a tabletop layout on iPad - Nearby play between two devices in the same room, no internet needed, in 31 games - Online turn-based matches with friends through Game Center in the same 31 games, with 26 achievements and 44 leaderboards - Tic-Tac-Toe and Drop Four inside iMessage SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY - A daily streak, and a premium Game of the Day that everyone can play free until midnight - Every premium game can be tried twice before you decide - A daily chess puzzle, a tactics trainer and endgame drills - House rules for Ludo, Snakes and Ladders, Shut the Box, Yatzy and more - Home Screen widgets for your streak, today's game and whose move it is MADE FOR REAL LIFE - Fully offline, so you can play on a plane or off the grid - One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac, with Family Sharing - In English and 16 other languages - VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support, and a high-contrast board theme TWICE A YEAR, THE CAST GROWS Ten more characters live in the app and appear only around Halloween and Christmas: a Victorian ghost who apologizes for winning, a jack-o-lantern with no memory, an elf who has been on her feet since October, a reindeer who has never made the team. They arrive on the day with nothing to download, and each season hides a fifth character until you beat the fourth. Quiet, hand-drawn, full of character. Made by one person in Manchester.