Comparison

GOPS vs Thistles Pontoon

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

GOPS

A two-player card game focused on pure strategy and no luck. Challenge your brain with smart AI opponents and track your performance. Customize your game experience with various modes and themes.

Highlights
  • Two-player card game
  • Pure strategy, no luck
  • Track your stats
  • Play against smart AIs
  • Easy or hard mode
  • Customizable color themes and card decks
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GOPS, also known as Goofspiel, stands for The Game of Pure Strategy, a two-player card game that’s all strategy and no luck! A perfect quickfire challenge for your brain. Free to play. Track your Stats. Take on smart AIs. It’s a challenging game for card players of all levels. Do you dare take it on? Compete with our AI in hard mode and try to beat their perfect memory. Test your brain and have fun at the same time! Win GOPS by scoring more points than your opponent! Both players start with exactly the same hand. You are dealt all of the spades and your opponents is dealt all of the hearts, so both players have one of each card value. All of the diamonds are played for during game. Make GOPS the perfect game for you! ● Choose easy or hard mode ● Choose normal or fast play ● Play in landscape or portrait mode ● Turn single click play on or off ● Sort cards in ascending or descending order Customise your colour themes and card decks to choose from to keep the landscape interesting! Quickfire Rules: Each suit is ranked Ace (low) – King (high). The aim of the game is to win Diamonds by bidding cards from your own hand against your opponent. Players make ‘closed bids’ for the top, face up, prize Diamond by selecting a card from their hand. These cards are then revealed simultaneously, and the player making the highest bid takes the competition card. Rules for tied bids vary. Either the competition card is discarded, or its value may ‘roll over’ to the next round so that two or more cards are competed for with a single bid card. (see Settings). The cards used for bidding are discarded, and play continues with a new upturned prize card. After 13 rounds the game is scored. Points are totalled equal to the sum of the cards won – Ace is worth one point, up to King worth 13 points.

About

Thistles Pontoon

Features
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Pontoon or 21. A card game when the player tries to beat the device's score. You have to reach 21 or as close as you can without going over. If the scores are equal then its a tie. 5 Card tricks beats anything except another 5 card trick.

Screenshots

GOPS4 screens
Thistles Pontoon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Thistles Pontoon at none against GOPS's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. GOPS sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Thistles Pontoon asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
GOPS versus Thistles Pontoon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGOPSThistles Pontoon
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (27 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings27 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better14.4
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCoppercod LtdAndrew Thorpe

In-app purchases

1 purchases

GOPS

One-time1
  • GOPS Premium$2.99
None

Thistles Pontoon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GOPS free?
GOPS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Thistles Pontoon free?
Thistles Pontoon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do GOPS or Thistles Pontoon have ads?
Both GOPS and Thistles Pontoon show ads.

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