# Jambolaya — 140+ games to play together

> 140+ games to play together (iPhone/iPad app by Eli Aloni.)

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- Developer: [Eli Aloni](https://appshunter.io/developer/1826254235)
- Category: Games
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 83 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Hebrew, Italian, European Portuguese, Russian, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-10-17
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is Jambolaya?

Jambolaya is one app with more than 140 board, card, puzzle, word and arcade games.
Play together, each on your own phone or tablet.
No internet needed: the phones connect directly to each other.
Play on a plane, in the car, camping, at the pub or at home.
Up to 7 players at one table.
Everyone plays in their own language (10 languages).
Interactive lessons teach almost every game step by step.
Every game is free to play alone or against the computer, with no ads and no account.

Screens often keep us apart, even at home.
Jambolaya uses them to bring people together.

Play together, right where you are
• One person creates a group and shares its short code. Everyone else joins with the code.
• Not enough people? Add computer players to fill the empty seats.
• Everyone sees menus and games in their own language, so a grandparent and a grandchild can play together in different languages.

More than 140 games
• Board games: Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Dominoes, Reversi, Four-in-a-Row, Snakes & Ladders, Chinese Checkers, Mancala, Go, Nine Men's Morris, Yacht, Farkle and many more.
• Card games: Hearts, Spades, Bridge, Gin Rummy, Rummy, Crazy Eights, Go Fish, Old Maid, Euchre, Whist, President, Durak, Scopa and many more.
• Solitaire and puzzles: Klondike, FreeCell, Spider, Mahjong Solitaire, Sudoku Duel, Nonogram, Jigsaw, Tangram, Pipes and more.
• Brain and word games: Word Search, Anagram Twist, Word Ladder, Code Breaker, Math Sprint, Odd One Out and more.
• Reading practice: letters, sounds and words, with a font option that keeps look-alike letters apart.
• Quick arcade games: Pool, Air Hockey, Darts 3D, Bowling 3D, Mini-Golf 3D, Carrom and more.

Easy to learn, easy to read
• "Learn to play" lessons teach almost every game step by step, on the real board. You make the moves yourself.
• "How it works" shows the whole app in a short slideshow, with read-aloud.
• Big, clear pieces and cards. Settings add extra letter spacing and an easier-to-read font, and the reading games can show bigger letters.
• 10 languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Italian and Portuguese.

What's free and what's paid
• Free: every game, played alone or against the computer. No ads, no account, no sign-up.
• Free in a group: creating and joining groups, and 7 games played together — Tic-Tac-Toe, Checkers, Crazy Eights, Tower Stack, Cannon Battle, Odd One Out and Word Search.
• Paid: to play all the other games together in a group, the host buys "All games hosting" once. Only the host pays: everyone who joins plays every game for free.

Your privacy
• No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking.
• Nothing you do in the app is sent to us. Your progress and settings stay on your device.

Good to know
• How many players a device can host depends on its hardware. Newer devices host more; a few very old devices can only join. The app picks a safe number for your device by itself.
• "All games hosting" includes games we add later. We may update games, and we may retire a game for legal, licensing, technical or safety reasons. If we retire a game, we will add a comparable new game in its place.

Questions? Write to jambolaya.games@gmail.com

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| All games hosting | $7.99 | one-time |


## Is Jambolaya safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Jambolaya.

## Is Jambolaya legit?

Jambolaya has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Jambolaya is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.0.4 — 2026-10-24

• Play reminders: a short reminder to play now and then, never at night, and you can turn them on or off in Settings.
• Other players now see the name you chose, not your device name: on invites, at the table and on your own seat.
• Best-of-3 series: the computer can win the series too, and when you lose, the result card names who won.
• Solitaire games (Golf Solitaire, Tri-Peaks, Mahjong Solitaire, Pyramid, Klondike, FreeCell, Spider) end and show your result when no moves are left.
• Crate Push tells you when a level can no longer be solved, so you can undo or restart.
• Playing alone: the board stops when the round ends, so the result always matches the score.
• Races are fair: you see your rival's progress, not their board.
• Chinese Checkers and Halma: a player who can't move passes, so the game no longer gets stuck.
• Old Maid and Crazy Eights: some rare endings are fixed.
• Checkers (English): when only kings move, the game is a draw after 40 moves each without progress, with a countdown.
• Dominoes: a blocked game shows the pip totals that decided it.
• Bigger player names on tablets and foldable phones.
• "How it works" now fits every phone.
• Hebrew and Arabic result cards read correctly on small phones.
• The menu button no longer covers part of Mancala, Yacht, Crokinole or Jigsaw.
• Groups you host: a player who left can come back in about 8 seconds instead of over a minute.

### 1.0.3 — 2026-10-19

• Favorites: tap the star on any game, or in its menu while you play, and find it under "Favorites" at the top of the game list.
• Recently played: the menu lists the last 3 games you played.
• Fixed the + and - buttons in Hebrew and Arabic (Backgammon match points).
• About: a link to our website.
• Fruit Rush: the jar stays fully on screen, and fruit drops where you aim, with the menu tab on the right.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-18

• Easy, Normal and Hard levels for the brain games, Pair Up and the reading games.
• Sharper graphics on every iPhone and iPad.
• Your own music keeps playing when you open Jambolaya — the game's sounds mix with it.
• Sound follows the Ring/Silent switch; the reading games' spoken words can still be heard.
• Bigger tap areas for Back, the top-bar buttons and the "?" buttons in Settings.
• iPad: the window buttons no longer cover Back when Jambolaya runs in a window.
• The permission prompt for playing together nearby is now in your language.
• More reliable group games: every move arrives in order, a player who drops out keeps their seat for a moment, and re-joining works better.
• A clearer menu tab, and fixes to Settings, How it works and Number Forge.
• A link to our Q&A page in About.

### 1.0 — 2026-10-17

No release notes.

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