Card Shark includes a diverse and growing collection of solitaire and traditional card games. Card Shark is iPad and retina display compatible, and features the ability to install custom tables, card backs, and even card fronts.
Supported games include: Klondike (Classic Solitaire), FreeCell, Cassino, Canfield, Basic Rummy, Gin Rummy, Rummy 500, Spider Solitaire, Cruel Solitaire, Beleaguered Castle, Spiderette, Bristol Solitaire, Hearts, Memory Match (Concentration), Speed Match, Calculation, Forty Thieves, Euchre (US), Deuces Wild and Jacks or Better Draw Poker, Aces Up, Spades (non-partnership variant), Limit Texas Hold 'Em, Speed, Batsford Solitaire, Josephine, Red & Black, Sea Towers, Crazy Eights, Tripeaks, Golf, Eagle Wing, Pyramid, Old Maid, War, Go Fish, 13 Packs (aka Grandma's Game), Royal Cotillion, Blackjack (21), Royal Parade, Thieves of Egypt, Scorpion, Pile On, Montana, Canfield, Clock Solitaire, Kings Corner, Russian Cell, Yukon, I Doubt It, Four Seasons, Crescent, Osmosis (aka Treasure Trove), Canasta, La Belle Lucie, Australian Solitaire, Egyptian Ratscrew, SheepsHead(new), Kings in the Corner, Eight Off, Queenie (new), Samara (new)
Card Shark combines a silky smooth 3d presentation with tasteful animation, sounds, and an elegant drag-drop interface that has been lovingly fine-tuned for the touch screen. Touches and drag targets are forgiving, and piles are automatically split following completed gestures. Touch foundation piles to automatically complete a game.
Why clutter your device with separate card games, when you can stock it with a quality collection that continues to be expanded and improved regularly based on user requests?
Features include:
- layouts for left/right handed stock placement
- infinite undo/redo supported in all solitaire variants
- tap foundation to autoplay cards
- does not interfere with ipod background music
- automatically saved/resumed games & statistics
- multiple cards fronts, backs, and tables with ability to install new ones from your photo library
An online FAQ is available through the in-game help system. This answers common questions about the supported games and offers a sneak peak at features and new games slated for the next update. Feature and new game requests are always welcome.
"Out of all of the solitaire type card games I have tried, this one is by far the best I have come across in quite a long while." - www.geardiary.com
Featured as an outstanding app in Wired Magazine's 2011 App Guide!
I am creating this thread for some discussion - hopefully on this solitaire game. Dev gave out promos today, but there is no other thread that I saw, and s/he is looking for feedback. Chime in if you have some thoughts. I will post my thoughts in another thread, this is just to get the app info out there.
Card Shark uses an intuitive drag-drop interface, which should be immediately familiar to fans of Windows Solitaire.
Card Shark supports a growing collection of classic card games with improvements and additions being made frequently.
Supported Games:
- Blackjack (NEW!)
- Golf (NEW!)
- Royal Cotillion (NEW!)
- Rummy
- Hearts
- Calculation Solitaire
- Memory Match, the classic find-all-pairs memory game
- Speed Match
- Video Draw Poker
- TriPeaks
- Crazy Eights
- Klondike Solitaire
- Spider Solitaire
- FreeCell
- Canfield (aka Demon)
- Forty Thieves
- Beleaguered Castle
Features include:
- colorful fireworks!
- intuitive drag and drop, optimized for touch screen and human fingers
- undo/redo
- choose traditional or large font cards (tap face up card in options screen)
- custom card back colors (tap face down card in options screen)
- tap foundation to autoplay cards
- tasteful 3d animations and sound
- optionally use background music from your ipod library
- automatically saved/resumed games
- persistent settings
- classic felt, sky, and wood backgrounds
- optional vegas style storing
- auto flip
- sloppy or neat piles
- alternate 'mirrored' layouts
An online FAQ is available at the support site and by touching the "More Info" button in-game. This answers common questions about the game and offers a sneak peak at features slated for future releases.
The game includes a handy "Contact Author" button which provides a convenient way to communicate with the developers regarding feature requests or general questions.
What's new
- Blackjack (PRELIM)
- Golf
- Royal Cotillion
- Spider-4
Draw Poker now supports variable betting (1-5 chips)
Added a 4th deck with super-simplified card faces
Critical bux fixes for Rummy, to patch a problem with the 4.2 update
Card Shark Solitaire Free