Tommy Collison

Random urge to review this iPhone app. Perhaps this will become a regular occurrence, perhaps not. Who knows, at least my last entry on apps was well received. We’ll see, son.

Card Shark Solitaire (free) iTunes Link (will open in iTunes)

All iPhone apps, none more so than games, are, or at least should be, designed to be playable for 30 seconds, then put away. That 30 seconds when you’re waiting for a bus, or a dentist’s appointment, or the groom to show up at a wedding, iPhone games should and most certainly can fill.

That means, of course, that your app shouldn’t take forever to load it up. Snappy, that’s a good word for it. Your iPhone game should load up snappily. That goes for most all iPhone apps, actually!

Anyway, Solitaire is a good app because you pop it open, move some more cards around, and you can easily quit the game if your bus arrives, your dentist calls you, or the groom finally shows up.

The thing that most impresses me about Card Shark Solitaire is the fluidity of the user interface. The clean way you drag and drop cards around the place, and the little pop as they join the aces at the top.

It’s actually a Lite version. Getting the Pro version opens up more games like Hearts and Poker, and is 79c. iTunes Link

Klondike-1 refers to style of play -you can also have mirrored, or use two decks, and so on- and 01:43 is my time. My best for completing an entire game is 3 minutes 20.

Can you beat me? :)

Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with Philip Stroffolino (the developer) or anyone in Card Shark. I wrote this review because I was seriously impressed with this app. But, if they read this and wanted to give me a gift voucher for the deluxe app, I wouldn’t say ‘no’ :P. And now no-one believes me when I say I wrote this purely out of impressed-ness. Ah well