Scat: The 31 Card Game

Three cards, one suit, 31 to aim for. Draw, discard, and call Scat if you're not lowest. Play up to five cats at once. Make your own cats! Ten games free, no ads.

The classic card game played against a table of cats.

Everybody gets three cards. Count the points in your best suit — aces are 11, faces and tens are 10 — and try to get as close to 31 as you can. On your turn, draw from the deck or take the top discard, then let one card go.

CALL SCAT

When you think your hand isn't the lowest at the table, call Scat instead of drawing. Everybody else gets one more turn, then all the cards turn face up. The lowest hand takes a strike. Make 31 and the hand ends on the spot — everyone else takes a strike.

Three strikes and you're out. The last one in wins.

A TABLE OF CATS

Play against one to five cats, each with its own painted portrait, its own story, and its own way of playing: bold, patient, watchful, a collector, or careful. Tap a cat at the table to meet it, or open Meet the cats to see all forty, and switch off any you'd rather not play. Every hand ends with everyone's cards laid out on the table, so you can see exactly who was lowest and why.

CATS OF YOUR OWN

Make cats to play against, each with a name, a look, and a play style, and they're dealt in like the rest. Trade them with friends as a file: you choose which cats go out and which come in.

MAKE YOUR CAT

Add your name and build a cat of your own: the ears, coat, markings, eyes, nose, and whiskers, plus a crown, a bow, glasses, or a party hat. Your cat sits at the table over your name and shows up when you win, and your name, your cats, and your house rules come with you to your other devices through iCloud.

YOUR HOUSE RULES

• Two to six players • Three of a kind counts as 30½, if your table plays it that way • Scat takes a hand of 20 or more, if your table plays it that way • A scatter who ties for lowest is safe

YOUR TABLE

Larger cards, a running commentary over your hand, and gentle sounds for the cards and the knock, each one a switch in the table settings. The writing at the table follows your text size.

NEW TO 31?

How to play walks through the game in seventeen short pages, using real cards. Open it any time from the ? button without ending your game.

AFTER THE GAME

Look back at every hand: who scatted, what everyone held, and who took the strike. Save or share it as a PDF. Statistics keeps your wins, win rate, best streak, and who wins most at your table, and syncs through your own iCloud account.

No ads, no account, and no internet connection needed to play. Your game is saved as you play, so you can pick it up where you left off.

TRY IT, THEN KEEP IT

Play your first ten games free, with nothing to start or buy first, and finish any game you've started, even after that. Unlock unlimited new games with a one-time purchase, eligible for Family Sharing. No subscription and no automatic charge.

COMPATIBILITY

Requires iOS 26.0 or iPadOS 26.0 or later.