cardinal. vs Guess Nine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
cardinal.
Engage in a minimalistic logic puzzle game where you deduce a secret solution using sixteen cards and clues. Enjoy procedurally generated boards for endless play and compete globally in daily challenges.
- Minimalistic logic puzzles
- Deduce secret solutions
- Procedurally generated boards
- Endless regular mode
- Daily global competitions
- 16 logic cards
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Minimalistic yet challenging, CARDINAL gives you sixteen different cards and clues in which you must figure out the secret solution! Begin with the cardinal rule you can then continue to creatively deduce the solution from there! An endless amount of procedurally generated boards waits for you in regular mode. And when you feel ready, test yourself in the daily competition alongside players from all over the globe.
Guess Nine
A number guessing game where players must deduce a unique 9-digit number. Hints are provided through directional arrows indicating numerical trends between digits. Test your logic and try to solve it within three attempts.
- Unique 9-digit number puzzle
- Digits 1-9 used once
- Arrow-based trend hints
- Limited tries for challenge
- Simple, logic-based gameplay
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Guess the mystery 9-digit number! Sounds simple, right? Well... here are the rules: 1) The digits 1-9 only appear once. 2) Your only hints are arrows on the screen. The arrows indicate trends in the number... whether the space is greater/less than the previous space Still sound easy? Think you can guess it in 3 tries? Guess Nine.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: cardinal. at none against Guess Nine's 1. cardinal. also leads on ratings volume (14 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Guess Nine sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. cardinal. asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for cardinal. against 5.0 for Guess Nine. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: cardinal. has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | cardinal. | Guess Nine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Perfect Hat Games LLC | Nathan Anthony |
Customer experience
cardinal.
Guess Nine
In-app purchases
cardinal.
No in-app purchases
Guess Nine
- Help support Guess Nine$0.99
