Thirty One Rummy vs 31
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thirty One Rummy
Experience the classic card game with online multiplayer and various game modes. Enjoy realistic graphics, customizable themes, and track your progress with extensive statistics. Play with friends or random opponents across multiple devices.
- Online multiplayer
- Four difficulty levels
- Five game modes
- Extensive statistics tracking
- Facebook integration for cloud saves
- Seven unique themes
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Now with online multiplayer! Connect and play with friends and family or simply choose a random opponent. Thirty One Rummy is the BEST Thirty One game created for iOS. Also known as Blitz, Big Tonka, Scat and Cadillac, our new version of Thirty One is sure to keep you entertained for hours! Thirty One offers four levels of difficulty, five unique game modes as well as extensive statistics tracking. It is an unparalleled game play experience! Also connect to Facebook to store your statistics and progress in the cloud. Personalize your game, earn experience with every game, and share your progress between all your devices. Features: • Realistic gameplay and graphics • Intuitive single player gameplay • 4 difficulty options • 5 game modes: Thirty One, Cut Throat, No Elimination, Banking and Switch. • 7 unique themes to play with, including the new Summer and Spring themes! • Extensive Statistics, including games and blitz tracking. • Facebook integration - personalize your game and save your progress.
31
This card game lets you build the best three-card hand by drawing or taking discards. Aim for 31 in a suit, three of a kind, or a low straight to win. Customize rules like wild cards, knock penalties, and starting lives for a personalized experience.
- Build best three-card hand
- Draw or take discard
- Customizable wild cards
- Adjustable lives and knock rules
- Solo or multiplayer modes
- Offline play
- Learn to play tutorial
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Play 31 - the classic card game also known as Scat or Blitz. Build the best three-card hand you can. Draw or take the discard, work toward 31 in a single suit, three cards of the same value ("Trips") or a Low Straight (2,3,4 in the same suit) and knock when you like your chances. Whoever holds the lowest hand when the round ends loses a life, and the last player with lives remaining wins. PLAYS BY THE WESTEND RULES - The dealer is dealt four cards and discards one to start the game - A banner spells out which cards are wild and glows when you are holding one - Tap the discard pile to take it or the draw pile to draw, or switch on the action buttons YOUR RULES, YOUR TABLE - Extra Wild card: turn up a card after the deal and every card of that rank is wild for the round - Blind Knock Round: one hand per dealer where the player to the dealer's left knocks sight unseen - Optional knock penalty for knocking and still ending up lowest - Choose how many lives everyone starts with, from 1 to 99 - Easy finish settles your last draw for you, or turn it off and choose your own discard - Turn the Check My Math discard warning on or off, and allow or disallow Undo PLAY YOUR WAY - Solo against computer opponents, or pass the device around the table with friends (2 to 8 players) - Let the bots play on their own with Auto-play, or pause before each bot's turn and tap Continue - Auto-organize keeps your hand sorted, with a quick slide - Compact phone-friendly table for landscape play, plus the classic full table view on iPad - Name your opponents and pick from themed name sets and card backs, with the WestEnd look as the default - Open Settings in the middle of a game and return to the same game with one tap - Learn to Play: a short coached practice hand with a spoken coach teaches the game, and a full rules reference is always one tap away - Haptics on iPhone: feel your turn and your wins, with strength, length and each moment adjustable SOUND AND VOICE - New sound effects and spoken lines in three voice styles - Separate switches for game sounds and voice, with a checkbox for every sound SIMPLE AND PRIVATE - No accounts, no ads, no in-app purchases - Works fully offline - No real money, betting, or wagering of any kind - just cards, lives, and bragging rights 31: WestEnd Rules is named for the table where we play. Pull up a chair.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 31 at none against Thirty One Rummy's 10. 31 also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). Thirty One Rummy's advantage is ratings volume (2.2K vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and device support 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. Thirty One Rummy sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. 31 asks for nothing beyond the download.
31 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Thirty One Rummy has 2.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Thirty One Rummy ships an update every 3 months, 31 every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thirty One Rummy | 31 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.2K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.2K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 390 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | North Sky Games | Mark Dorsey |
Customer experience
Thirty One Rummy
31
Bugs and requests
Thirty One Rummy
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game freezes and crashes
- Coin tracking issues across devices
- Ads that cannot be closed
Requested features
3 requests- Online multiplayer mode
- Option to score 30.5 for three of a kind
- Ability to pay to remove ads
31
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Thirty One Rummy
- Special Offer$2.99
- Tiny Coin Pack$4.99
- Tiny Chip Pack$4.99
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- Special Offer$8.99
- Small Coin Pack$9.99
- Small Chip Pack$9.99
- Medium Coin Pack$19.99
- Special Offer$19.99
- Large Coin Pack$49.99
- Jumbo Coin Pack$99.99
31
No in-app purchases
Questions
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