CalystrixCard Carnival vs Hand PaintedCards

CalystrixCard Carnival is a collection of three original card puzzles, each with its own rule set. One idea holds them together: a deck of cards is a wonderful set of puzzle pieces, and a Joker is the piece that fits anywhere. Joker Orbit asks you to plant cards on three turning rings around a Joker star. Every card you plant makes the whole orrery drift, so you are always planning one step into a board that is about to move. Joker Bloom treats cards as seeds. Each suit grows its own way — hearts spread sideways, diamonds run diagonally, spades creep downward, clubs send out a single runner. Four touching plots of one suit bloom and lock in. Plant in the wrong order and your garden strangles itself. Joker Prophecy shows you the future. You can see the next three cards and the exact square each one will land on. You cannot stop them — but you can spend Joker tokens to redirect them, change their suit, or turn them wild. Then you satisfy the omens the stage demands. Every one of the 36 stages is built from a fixed seed, so a stage is the same puzzle for everybody, every time. Skill decides the outcome, not the shuffle. Features • Three original puzzles, 36 hand-authored stages, three stars to earn on each. • Joker Orbit — a drifting three-ring orrery. Nudge a ring, spend a Freeze, align the rays. • Joker Bloom — suit-directed growth on a 6×6 garden, with Joker Suns that revive everything nearby. • Joker Prophecy — turn-based and untimed. See what is coming, then bend it with Joker tokens. • Versus (2–6 players) — the host picks one puzzle and stage, everyone solves an identical board, and the best score takes the round. Placing earns XP for everyone. • No internet, no accounts, no data leaving your device — versus runs peer-to-peer over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. • Failed attempts still earn XP, so progress only ever moves forward. • Progression: levels, XP, stars, solve streaks, achievements, a leaderboard, plus Stats and a full run History. • Sound and haptics, both switchable.

Hand PaintedCards brings together three distinct card games built around a single hand-painted deck of fifty-two tiles in four families: ember hearts, thorn spades, tide diamonds, and quartz clubs. Each game mode asks something different of the same familiar set of ranks and families: - Classic Solitaire: build four foundations from seed to apex, alternating warm and cool ink across seven columns. Budget your turns carefully as chapters grow tighter. - Family Sort: tiles are revealed one at a time. Place each on the correct family pile in order before your allowed mistakes run out. Quick recognition and memory under pressure. - Memory Match: flip tiles two at a time to find every matching set before your turns are spent. Later chapters hide more pairs in a larger grid. Thirty-six chapters span the three trails, each with a seeded layout that plays identically every attempt so you can refine your strategy. Progress is stored locally and stats track your solve history across sessions. A daily puzzle rolls in fresh every day: one shared seed, three trails to walk it. Clear any of the three to keep your streak alive, or try all three for the full set. Every chapter remembers your best turn count. The status line shows it while you play, the closing sheet marks a new personal best, and a Replay button lets you take another run at the same board straight from the result. Five hand-crafted colour palettes unlock as you complete chapters. Full VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, and Reduce Motion support are built in from the start. No accounts, no in-app purchases, and no advertising anywhere in the experience.