Osteria delle carte

Fourteen card games in one app, with hand-drawn cards and house rules.

THE GAMES WITH AN OPPONENT Briscola, Scopa, Ace Takes All, Tressette, Burraco and Scala 40 — the games played in Italian homes and bars. Tressette declarations are counted for you, Scopa scores the settebello, coins, cards and primiera the proper way, and Burraco has the pots, the wild cards and the clean burraco worth two hundred.

EIGHT SOLITAIRES Klondike, FreeCell, Spider, Pyramid, TriPeaks, Napoleon at St Helena, Fifteen and The Clock. Each with a hint when you are stuck, and undo when you were not.

THREE OPPONENTS, NOT ONE Beginner, expert and master. The master does not cheat: it counts the cards that have been played, exactly as you would, and at Tressette and Burraco you can feel it.

THIRTEEN DECKS TO COLLECT Neapolitan, Piacentine and Sicilian patterns, plus decks drawn for this app: night, embers, sea, garden, glass, osteria. And three seasonal ones that appear only at their time of year.

THE DAILY CHALLENGE Two games a day, rotating, dealt the same for everyone. And when you want to measure yourself against someone in particular, send them your deal: they play your exact cards, and the scores meet.

YOU PLAY, YOU DON'T SIGN UP No account, no email, no connection required: open it and play. Games, statistics and decks follow your own iCloud from one device to the next, if you want them to.

EVEN IF YOU CLOSE THE APP An interrupted hand resumes exactly where you left it, in all fourteen games.

BUILT FOR EYES THAT AREN'T WHAT THEY WERE Press and hold a card to see it large, with its name written out. In the games with a long hand there is an index view that prints the value three times bigger. And all of it reads correctly with VoiceOver.

AND THEN Twenty-seven achievements and sixteen leaderboards, all shown inside the app — you never have to leave the table. Statistics per game and per difficulty. The rules, readable at the table while you play.