Royal Hands app for iPhone and iPad

Royal Hands takes the familiar poker hands and apply it to the action packed puzzle games. Completing the first few simple levels teaches you the mechanics of the game. Then you are ready to explore each level as it becomes harder.

Royal Hands game play is deceptively simple and complex at the same time. The goal is to swap cards to find the highest hands and collect the points. Make the goals for each level to move on to the next challenge, but keep an eye on how many moves you have left. Each level is a challenge. Easy and fun to play, very hard to master all levels. Every few levels offer surprising new features. Watch as each new update adds more to the excitement of Royal Hands!

GOALS. So far the goals are one or a combination of the following:
- Target score - reach or surpass the target score before your moves run out.
- Number of must clear cards - you must use or clear all the light blue cards with a pentagon gem design.

STRATEGIES. Here are some strategies you can deploy to beat each level:
- Make every move count. Every touch is a move so even if it is a mistake take any points that are given. This is more useful after level 6 when chain reactions are activated.
- Always make 2 hands. Each move can have a maximum of 2 selected hands, vertical and horizontal, both using the last dropped card.
- Move the unusable blue blocks to make room. A hand can be between 2 to 5 cards. Most of the time, more cards in a hand means higher points. So your first moves should be to take out the cards below the unusable blue blocks to make them collapse to the bottom, clearing the top area for maximum number of card hands.
- Higher Poker hands score higher points. From highest scoring hand to the lowest : Straight Flush, Four of a Kind, Full House, Flush, Straight, 3 of a Kind, 2 pairs, and 1 pair. The higher scoring hands are also harder to make. The sum points of all the cards in a hand is multiplied by the rank of the hand to get the total points.
- Score higher with higher suits. The rank of the card suit makes a huge difference in how high the value of each card is multiplied. Spade=3X, Heart=2.5X, Diamond=2X, Club=1X For example a 2 of Clubs is only 2 points, while a 2 of Spades is 3X2 = 6 points.
- Each "Must Clear Card" adds 100 points to the hand. So if used wisely in a large hand (high ranking multiple) you can score points in the thousands with just one hand. With each move you can make 2 high scoring hands.

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