Ishido

Name: Ishido
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Darin Koenig

By: Darin Koenig

The Way of the Stones

Features & Capabilities

WELCOME TO ISHIDO An ancient puzzle that will test your meditative and strategic powers. Balance the yin & yang of patience vs. the quick score. Your goal is to empty the pouch, but plan ahead to find the elusive 4-way. You must match 72 stones on a board of 96 squares. You can play for points or relax and meditate over each move.

OVERVIEW Ishido is a board game where you attempt to match stones according to their colors and patterns.

THE GAME BOARD

The Game Board is eight squares high by 12 squares wide.
Stones come in sets of 72 stones. Each stone has two attributes: A color and a symbol. There are six symbols and six colors in each stoneset, thus creating 36 unique stones. Each stone comes in a pair, hence 72 stones in each stoneset.
The Within consists of the interior squares.
The Beyond consists of the squares at the outer edges of the board.
The Touchstone displays the next stone to be played.
The Scoreboard shows both the number of points scored, and the number of combination matches achieved.
The Pouch shows the number of stones remaining to play.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Darin Koenig

Rating:

3.00

(1) 0.10

Version:

1.6.0 Last updated: 2026-02-18

Version code:

882476453

Creation date:

2017-11-16

Compatible devices:

Size:

37.32MB

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-07

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 972,566 ▼ 573,474

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Developed by:

Darin Koenig

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/ishido/id1314137178?l=en-US

User Reviews

Ishido has been my favorite game since the early days on the mac. This is a welcome version but needs a back button, faster placement of stones, better coloration (black/grey needs higher contrast) and a choice of stone sets along with a few tweaks for smoother operation. This would bring a fantastic strategy game forward and even enable a profit center.

by an*****, 2024-06-16

I played this game on PC years ago when it first came out and really loved it. It’s a strategy game where you combine sets of tiles matched by pattern and color. The menus to change tiles and board dont work right, there is no back button to return to game after your choice so you have close the game and the old choice is there. Originally I always played with the scarab set, but this makes me use a southwestern pattern. Also some sets are hard to see. Slighly enlarging would be great. I would purchase this! It is out of print and probably no longer copyrighted. Someone crafty could improve it and make some money off this. It is a brilliant strategy game similar to chess, go, nine mens morris, backgammon, dominos. Needs tweaks though.

by Is*****, 2023-11-10

I was very pleased that Ishido was available again. I played it for years in a classic format but I lost it somehow when I moved material from one device to another I was pleased with the basic playability with this version. When I tried to play today the automatic set up to begin the game provided no option for the first move. Thus the game was frozen. It happened repeatedly so the game is now useless.