Kitchen Table Setback

Play Setback with the people you love: against the computer, on your own phones from anywhere, or one phone passed around the table. Your house rules.

Kitchen Table Setback is the card game your family grew up playing, also known as Pitch or High Low Jack. Play against the computer, take turns on your own iPhones from anywhere, or pass one phone around the table.

HIGH, LOW, JACK, GAME Bid 2, 3, 4 or Smudge. Lead your best suit to name trump, then take the points: High, Low, the Jack of trump, and Game. Make your bid or get set back. First to 21 wins.

PLAY THE COMPUTER Choose Easy, Normal or Hard. Computer players bid, follow suit, protect their points and feed their partner. Play as partners with a computer teammate, or every player for themselves.

PLAY TOGETHER FROM ANYWHERE Start a game, invite family and friends through Game Center, and take your turn whenever you're ready. You get a notice when it's your turn. Computer players can fill any empty seats, and if someone has to leave, the computer takes their seat so the game goes on.

OR PASS ONE PHONE AROUND Pass and play needs no sign-in. Before each person's turn the cards are covered, so nobody peeks.

YOUR HOUSE RULES

• Play to 11, 15, 21, 31 or 52
• Low goes to whoever takes it, or whoever played it
• Stuck dealer, or throw the hand in
• Dealer can take the bid by matching it
• Trump anytime, or only when you can't follow suit
• Smudge on or off, and whether a Smudge wins the game
• Bidder goes out first

MADE FOR FAMILY GAME NIGHT

• Big, easy-to-read cards on a felt table in six colors
• Partners or cutthroat for 2, 3 or 4 players
• Hand-by-hand scoreboard and a summary of who took each point
• Wins, losses, bids made, and your record with each person you play
• Works on iPhone and iPad, in light and dark mode

No accounts, no tracking. Your stats stay on your device. Free with a small home-screen banner and a short ad after each finished game, never during play. A one-time purchase removes all ads.