# Forty Thieves - Cards — One card at a time, two decks

> One card at a time, two decks (iPhone/iPad app by Sebastien Becker.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/forty-thieves-cards/id6759176305 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Sebastien Becker](https://appshunter.io/developer/1466769856)
- Category: Games, Entertainment, Board, Card
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 33 MB
- Languages: Australian English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany) and 23 more
- Released: 2026-03-05
- Data updated: 2026-09-02
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/forty-thieves-cards/id6759176305/reviews.md

## What is Forty Thieves?

Forty cards, face up, in ten columns of four. You can see every one of them, and most of the time you still cannot do a thing.

Here is why. A card travels alone. Never in a run, never two at once, however neatly they happen to be stacked. It lands only on a card of its own suit, exactly one rank higher. With two decks in play that is a narrow window, and the sixty-four cards held in the stock come out one at a time onto a waste pile that is never recycled. One pass. What you turn up is what you get.

The single mercy is the empty column, which will take absolutely any card. Clearing a column is the closest thing to a lever this game offers, and a good deal of the first half is spent trying to earn one.

This is a demanding patience and it makes no secret of it. Losing is ordinary. A win is worth something precisely because the board gave you so little to work with.

The board
- Two decks, 104 cards in total
- 10 tableau columns of 4 cards, all face up
- 8 foundations, each built up by suit from Ace to King
- 64 cards in the stock, turned one at a time, no second pass
- The game is won when all 104 cards reach the foundations
- Ten points per card promoted, and five for a card taken off the waste onto a column

In the app
Undo across the last hundred moves, so one wrong single-card decision does not cost you the evening. Hints. A tutorial with the rules in full. Statistics: games played, wins and best times. Card backs and table colours. Free to play, no sign-up, and it runs with no connection. 33 languages.

Contact: sbecker.app@gmail.com


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.23.0 — 2026-08-24

Bug fixes and UI improvements.

### 1.22.1 — 2026-08-21

Bug fixes and UI improvements.

### 1.22.0 — 2026-08-15

Bug fixes and UI improvements.

### 1.21.1 — 2026-07-27

Bug fixes and UI improvements.

### 1.21.0 — 2026-07-24

Bug fixes and UI improvements.

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