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Scat 31 Fun – Card Game Review
Scat 31 Fun is a Card/Entertainment/Family game from Mark Hanson, first launched in 29th January 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 172+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Scat 31 Fun Stand Out
Take on your friends or Vera, Chuck and Dave in this challenging version of Scat 31
A classic 3 card game which is addictive, fast and fun.
Game Information:
- Standard 52 playing card deck
- 4 player table
- 1-3 computer or LIVE opponents
- Collect a suited 31 (SCAT), all opponents pay
- Collect 21+ to "Knock", lowest hand pays
- Listen to your iPod music while playing
- Simple to use interface with HD graphics
- To win collect all player's coins
- Game Center enabled
- Game variation settings for 3 of a Kind, Straight Flush and points required to Knock
Complete rules included with App
This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Scat 31 Fun is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th April 2022
Recent improvements include:
Build with iOS 15 SDK
Download & Availability
Scat 31 Fun is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
1). When you knock and lose, you should pay double. 2). The first person to lose all of the tokens/points should get one extra turn (known as being on their honor). Its only for the first person or persons that lose their tokens. This is what started the saying; People on their honor have been known to win. 3). You should have a choice to start with either three tokens or four tokens. When we play if you start with three tokens, we use the first person out on a rule (see second suggestion above). Great game, we have been playing Scat for over 45 years. Thank you for a great game/experience.
Local games amongst friends dont seem to work anymoreplease fix.
The game only flaw, despite being soo good is that 3 of a kind, should 31.5(others would say 30), but there has been multiple instances, where the game didnt register that. This needs fixing.
We never can connect with other online players. Can this be corrected and how so.
The overall game play is good we have no complaints about that but over half of the games we play online with friends crash halfway through the game and we have to close out and start over. Also it would be nice if it allowed you to play online using data instead of WiFi.
Not all features work as they should. Settings show you can change the background and other things, yet its nowhere to be found. Also doesnt connect for playing with friends.
Please give the ability to play multiplayer when on cellular network. Otherwise awesome, thanks.
If u need revenue for the game don't put ads just charge us 2.99$ to download! Just saying.
Stop all the intrusive adds!!!!!! We like this app but the ads that cover our cards is frustrating and makes us stop enjoying the game therefore we stop playing. Why don't you understand it's your adds that piss people off about your app!! We would be happy to pay a buck or two for an otherwise great product.
This game was great till they updated it. So many of our friends have deleted it since… So, BOOOOO.
This app is terrible the image is very badly put together and the computer runs the whole game you don't interact with real people.
We loved this app until the last update, background no longer works, very intrusive ads after every hand. We couldn't take anymore and deleted it. If you add a paid ad free version we'll be back.
Ads now that blast volume! We always play quietly. Now we can't bc of the dang ads. And still the fast function hasn't been fixed. You're going backwards developers.
We love the game but we would rather pay $5.00 for it than to have to deal with the scrolling advertising. The advertising scrolls at the bottom of the screen just where you have to press to play again and often we hit the ad line because it pops up. It really iratates us. Also they have added commercials after nearly every hand. They ruined a great game.
More ad's than gameplay. Terrible update.
We're dumping game to many commercials.
Loved it before, deleting it now. Roll the update back and maybe we'll reinstall it. Ruined a good game with pop up ads.
The game was marginal at best before the update. Now you tack on an advertisement after each hand and the game is unplayable.
Game was great before the latest update. Before there were small ads at the bottom of the screen during gameplay. Now there are fullscreen pop up ads that you can't close for a minimum of 5 seconds, and they pop up after each round of play. You end up spending more time watching ads than actually playing. Horrible. Great game but unplayable now.
Would love to see random assignment of seats for multiplayer game and add a 5th player. Also seems that first seat wins more often than any seat.
Been playing this game for literally years now. Was one of the first games we ever got and that says something. As a 50+ man this has always been our go to. We highly recommend investing in the no ads where there is oh our gosh… NO ADS!! Enjoy.
The other players seem to have their own idiosyncrasies which makes it an interesting challenge depending on who youre playing against. For example, Vera tends to tap early in a game. Chuck tends to get higher value cards and often beats us.
No issues with performance and has game play options that other Apps didnt offer.
The last update was great. Cards are easier to read and the placement of the banner is much better. Thanks.
Why are the rules different between the iPad and iPhone versions? The iPad version is the one like we grew up with. We've been playing this one for awhile and enjoying it. Now instead of occasional ads they pop up in between each hand. Also cannot change background, card backs or faces. Go back to the old version. Based on the new one we wouldn't ever consider buying it.ad problem corrected.
Overall its fun but it lost options to change the game rules to your liking but doesnt allow you to change them. You cant do three of a kind or lay day with anything under 21.
Ive been playing on this app for a long time now. Love it. Recently, we have seen lots of bugs. Playing against Dave, we discarded a 4 of diamonds, which Dave picked up and then magically, he got scat. ? Then, we picked up a King of diamonds and discarded a 5 of spades. Magically, the King of diamonds disappeared leaving a three of hearts in its place. No idea where these bugs have come from, but you need to fix them.
Its fun, just kind of bummed no three-of-a-kind in this particular game.
The game itself is fine but, other than the computer players switching positions, you the real player remain in the first seat all the time. Random positions would be a benefit and make he game more interesting.
Worked great until latest update. Also visually does not work with iPhone X.
We can forgive the simplistic graphics, but we lost with 3 queens as the AI claimed our score was 10.
We are never given the option to double tap the felt to knock. We try before we draw. We try after we draw. We try after we discard. Nothing works. Since this was a complaint in the reviews years ago, we assume they will never fix it. Deleting app. There are plenty others to choose from.
Good way to kill some time. Fun game, but Dave is a total douche lol.
We've tried the other 31 games out there, This a great version of the game. We like the options for 3 of a kind and knock limits. We just wish there was someone else on Game Center to play.
This is a very good reproduction of the game and it will get a 5th star when it incorporates a stat keeping functiongames won & lost. Users should be sure to not overlook the less-than-prominent 'pause' button at the lower right of the game board if they don't want to start all over again upon leaving the game for another app and then coming back to Scat again.
This game is great and all but we would like to point out the biggest problem. No matter how many computer players are in our game, we always get the terrible cards which makes us lose all the time!! It is really annoying but other than that this is a decent game.
We like this game okay, but we sure wish there was a way to change the names of the AI players. We're tired of hearing "When we're Sixty-Four" in our head whenever we play it.
Please give option to turn off the VERY annoying vibrate every time someone knocks.
AI players always seem to get 31, or discard what other AI players need.
Would be a decent game if the CPU didn't win 90% of the time. Very frustrating.
Do you guys not understand that the purpose of the game is to get 31? Not get 21 or 22 and knock! It's called scat or 31 not KNOCK KNOCK! You don't even play! You go once or twice and then the computer player knocks! What's the point of even playing if that's what's gona happen? It's stupid.
The game is great. It's a good pass time. However there are two things we would suggest. 1) please give an option to turn off vibrate, there are times where we would like to play and not disturb those around us with the buzzing sound of our phone. 2) we have always played a variation where the person who knocks has to be the highest, if any one of the other players are above the knocker then the knocker is the one to take the loss on the hand, makes for a bit more strategy instead of just banking on any one person being lower than you.
Computer wins 98% of the time. Computer knocks or has scat on its second turn. It does not give you a chance to get anything. Worst game ever.
Used to play this in the military.
Great game we've played since we were a child so nice to have here to play and relax.
We wish you can play with other players, like on Facebook , you have a gem, if you can work on that.
Our main gripe is the AI – upon being dealt, many times the computer will knock without us even having a chance for other players to draw a card (this happens the majority of the time) our next complaint (relevant to the 1st) is that when the computer knocks during the first round, they will only have 21 or so – but if a player knocks and others have more, there is no penalty to the player that knocks. We feel like there is little motivation to strive for the highest hand if one knocks and doesn't actually have the highest score because they aren't penalized. Developers, please make sense of this or put out an update to fix these very irritating issues that dampen an otherwise fun game. Also, maybe a chat feature in Bluetooth local mode.
We've played 25 plus games in a row and haven't won one yet! Fix this and it will be perfect! Update: we added 2 more stars. We got past 30 games and everything seems to change. We're actually winning about 1/2 the time and Chuck seems to be getting better chances also (we were feeling bad for the guy). We can't seem to figure out the Game Center part, we keep getting error messages when we try to turn it on. We're sure its something wrong on our phone. Now it's a pretty good game! We would easily pay a buck or two for this game.
Great game. We love Scat anyway and we play it all the time so it is nice that we can play with family and friends when we can't be together.
What a great free app! One of our favorites! Lots of fun and easy to understand. Great way to sharpen your game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.6.0
- Size: 66.38 MB
- iOS: 9.3 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Mark Hanson]()
Last updated: 11th April 2022 | Genre: Card, Entertainment | Developer: Mark Hanson