Rickety Kate1.3.9 - App Store

Rickety Kate is a trick taking card game. This means every player tosses in a card and the player with the highest card in the same suite as the first card wins the trick and the cards. But wait! the person with the lowest running score wins. So winning a trick is not necessarily good.

The Queen of Spades (Rickety Kate) is worth 10 points against you and the other spades are worth 1 point against you. When you run out of cards you are dealt another hand.

If you obtain all the spades in a hand it is called 'Shooting the Moon' and your score drops to zero. At the beginning of each hand the player pass their three worst cards to their neighbour. Aces and King are the worst cards.

The game has many options and settings

Depending on the options the deck of cards can be anywhere from 30 cards in 3 suites to 184 cards in 10 suites

The following options are available

1. Number Of Suites in Deck (3 - 8)
2. Number Of Cards in Suite (10-20)
3. Number Of Players At Table (3 - 7)
(The empty seats will be filled with robot players)
4. Number Of Human Players At Table (1 - 7)
(Multiple players can play in pass the phone / pad mode)
5. Include Jokers in Deck (Yes-No)
6. Include Tarot Trumps in Deck (Yes-No)
7. Use Pass Three Worst Cards Rule (Yes-No)
8. Game Finishing Score (50 - 500)
9. Speed of Card Animations (Slow - Fast)
10. What are the Scoring Cards (Spades, Hearts or Jacks)
11. Include Hooligan ( Seven of Clubs ) Worth 7 points (Yes - No)
12. Include Omnibus ( Jack of Diamonds ) Worth Negative 10 points (Yes - No)
13. Follow 'Can not lead with Scoring Card Suite Until Someone Plays a Scoring Card' Rule (Yes-No)
14. Play Music (Yes-No)
15. Music Volume (Low - High)
16. Play Sound (Yes-No)
17. Music Volume (Low - High)

Other names for this game are Black Lady, The Dirty, Dark Lady, Slippery Anne, Chase the Lady, Crubs, Black Queen, Black Maria, Hearts, Spades, Four Jacks and Hooligan Hearts

Version History updated support for new devices 1.3.9 11/02/2023 minor improvements to graphics 1.3.8 03/17/2020 Improved Graphics 1.3.7 02/20/2020 Improved Graphics 1.3.6 02/18/2020 Minor Graphic Tweaks 1.3.5 02/16/2020 Organised options and settings in order to make them easier to understand 1.3.4 12/01/2019 Fixed waiting for turn bug 1.3.3 11/29/2019 Minor cosmetic changes 1.3.2 11/28/2019 Minor improvements to graphics 1.3.1 11/04/2019 Added better card back graphics 1.3.0 11/02/2019 Improved confirmation dialog
Improved sounds 1.2.9 10/31/2019 Minor Improvements to graphical buttons 1.2.8 10/31/2019 Now greys out volume controls if sound is turned off.
Minor changes to in game instructions 1.2.7 10/30/2019 Added Sound Volume Control 1.2.6 10/30/2019 Added Sound 1.2.5 10/23/2019 Added background music 1.2.4 10/22/2019 Added pass the phone multiplayer Mode 1.2.3 10/22/2019 Minor tweaks 1.2.2 10/04/2019 Minor Graphics Improvements
New cards 1.2.1 09/28/2018 minor fixes 1.2.0 07/30/2018 fixed issues with leaderboard 1.1.9 07/27/2018 minor fixes 1.1.8 07/19/2018 Minor Fix
Added support for Italian 1.1.7 06/25/2018 Minor Fixes 1.1.6 06/23/2018 Improved instructions 1.1.5 01/26/2016