Last updated on January 17th, 2026 at 03:52 pm
ABC Solitaire – Board Game Review
ABC Solitaire is a Board/Puzzle/Education game from ZHONGYUAN SHEN, first launched in 1st June 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 73+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes ABC Solitaire Stand Out
***Thank you for viewing! Thank you for downloading!
This is the most difficult, unique and addictive puzzle game in the world! This game does not require any preliminary knowledge, but demands huge observations, great patience and challenging spirit! Everyone from children to adult people can fully enjoy it while testing and demonstrating his IQ.
***Game goal
Clear the board by removing two same tiles each time as quickly as possible.
***How to remove
Condition 1: If two same tiles are on the same row or column and there are no other tiles between them, tap to remove them directly.
Condition 2: If one tile can be moved to a new position where Condition 1 can be met by this tile and the other same tile, move this tile first and then tap the other to remove these two same tiles.
**Options
You can change the color combination among three screen colors, three text-background colors, and two text colors.
*You have two chances for both Hints and Undo.
*You can announce your scores via Email, Facebook or Twitter.
*Supports Chinese, English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Russian and Swedish.
*Auto save game.
*Supports landscape. For free version, this can enlarge the play area.
***Scores
Three types of scores will be reported to Game Center’s leaderboards, i.e., Best time, total numbers of Completion and total number of Stars. In addition, achievements have five levels and five glory stages.
***Related App
While ABC Solitaire tends to use your left side of brain. related Zhongyuan Mahjong (Solitaire) which adopts the same game rule tends to use your right side of brain, Tens of thousands of people have already been deeply addicted to Zhongyuan Mahjong (Solitaire), and the number are growing very fast. They are enjoying and challenging it day by day, again and again. You are also warmly welcomed to have a try of Zhongyuan Mahjong.
****Licensed Application
To use this application, you agree the following terms of use which is "Apple Terms of Use (EULA)".
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
****Banner Ads
In order to support feature improvement and sustainabity, banner ad is introduced. However, users can still play at offline mode and report offline scores to Game Center.
Inn order to enable users to remove ads at a reasonable amount payment, auto-renewable subscription is inntroduced.
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, ABC Solitaire is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 13th January 2026
Recent improvements include:
1) Fixed instant message errors, device rotation error, and background crashing errors 2) Improved UI and performance 3) Other bug fixes and performance improvement
Download & Availability
ABC Solitaire is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get ABC Solitaire on App Store
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:
This game was better when we could get an extra hint. You must use one hint to see if it is worth playing or not; otherwise it can get boring if you try to play and there are fewer than five pairs.
This is a fun game. It's always a different game.
We love this game it's a game that makes you look for strategic moves in order to clear the board, we're not concerned about the time aspect we're into clearing the board without asking for a hint, its like a rubics cube figure out how the puzzle comes together.
They just updated the app to fix a bug…and now we can't play at all. We can't move any of the cells up, down or sideways. Updated – thank you for fixing the bug. Game works great again.
- Now, when you try "undo" feature, it ends the game 2. Can no longer play game in landscape mode 3. Volume of sound was amped up — very distracting and drains the battery. Would be nice to go back to previous volume, or better still, allow us to control the volume Really like the game, but it was better BEFORE the recent bug fixes.
After we ran the latest update of ABC Solitaire it does not work correctly on our iPad. You can't drag the letters or numbers. What's up with that.
Great game requires strategy and concentration.
So glad we found this game! Fun but still thoughtful.
We highly recommend it! Although it would be cool to change the color scheme.
This game is very addictive, have gotten a lot of friends and family to play.
Love this game. Play almost every day on our devices. Very addicting.
This game is a lot of fun and a great challenge. We actually won the game we just finished! Winning the game doesn't happen very often and it is still lots of fun to play. G.G.
This game will keep you on your toes!!! We just Love It!! So do our Kids.
Fun yet challenging. Good way to pass time. Would like more achievements to keep interest but still worth having.
This our unwind from our day game. We play it every night.
This is a great game. We have told so many people about it. One thing that could be better is if you could pause the game and keep your time. You can pause but it keeps the clock running and when you start playing again you will have all the time you were not playing added in. When you are trying to beat your own best time then that is not good. Other than that it is great.
Can't get it to play, after multiple downloads and deletes.
LOVE this game! Makes us feel like we accomplished something when we win. It is not an easy game. That is what makes it worthwhile to play.
This is one of our favorite games but the stability problems are annoying. For instance, if we try to change the background from the glaring neon green, the app shuts down. And we loathe the startup screen. We know the developer wants us to try out their other games but the rotating icon thing is beyond annoying. We would love to give this game 5 stars but it still needs a LOT of work.
This is one game we have a hard time staying away from. Very very addictive. We're always trying to beat our own score, love it.
Love this game! It would be great if there was a way of knowing that is no more moves.
Love this APP! We're hooked on it… Always trying to beat our own time:).
We love this game, but Why did the latest update include background color change? We can change it to a more comfortable color for our eyes, but it keeps changing back to a nasty green color. Please fix it so that the color the user chooses remains.
The newest update has a flashing banner covering the first row of letters saying take a snapshot and share. DELETED THIS APP!!! Boo to the persons who thought this was a good idea. We certainly won't buy your app now.
We can't put this game down! We're reluctant to tell our friends about it as it is so compelling. Niggling issues: if you're not going to stop the clock while we're away, why bother making us hit the 'resume' button? Did you omit the phone's clock from your UI on purpose? You don't want us to know how much time we're killing? There is definitely enough room on the screen to include the clock. Five star game.
Don't download this app if you want to have time for anything else. Lol.
Great game! Can you "stop" the timer when players take a break.
After months of trying to find other games that make us want to play them over and over again, none have come close to ABC solitaire. Not a day goes by that we don't pick up your game and play. WOW, what a great game!! Thank you.
This is super hard to put down, a challenge but so much fun.
This game is great for focusing your mind. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it is difficult. The only problem is that the timer continues when you pause the game.
Great game. Very addictive. BUT what happened to the message that there are no more matching pairs? We even bought the paid version, but message has disappeared and you have to use a hint to determine there are no more matches.
Love the challenge! Locks up though and we have to delete app and re-install. Just a nuisance, we'll continue to play despite this problem.
We discovered ABC Solitaire last fall and is the only game that we play every single day. It seems we are easily bored with game apps on the iPad because we play them for awhile but will then lose interest relatively quickly. Not so with ABC Solitaire. In fact, after a few months we insisted our husband load it on his own iPad because every time we set our iPad down, it was immediately in his hands and he was playing it and that's saying a lot because he's an anti-game person. It's literally the only game he plays. ABC Solitaire remains challenging because no two games are ever the same and it is irritatingly addicting! With a few minor tweaks we would easily rate this a five-star game. It's frustrating that the game clock doesn't pause if you have to step away from a game in progress, there are far too many buttons to press to continue a game once paused, and it's exceedingly frustrating when you have bonus hints stored and they get taken away from you when the game is inactive for any more than a short time. It seems like these would be easy fixes. The game's developer told us the clock did not stop to thwart fraud on the leader board. Perhaps we don't know the nuances of cheating, but we can't see how the constantly-ticking time clock foils cheaters. We have yet to find another game app that comes anywhere even close to the addiction level of this game. It's mentally challenging and wholly engaging.
Fun game, don't have to think or concentrate to play. It is very relaxing.
We find it relaxing and enjoy playing it. It isn't as stressful as some games. We do wish it warned players when there are no pair remaining.
Great game. Paid for so we wish they would leave us alone and let us play. No more asking for reviews would be nice.
The game itself is so fun, BUT the notification that you have no more moves is way to delayed. Sometimes we also lose the game we were playing from some kind of glitch. Would be nice to have volume control on sounds. It is either loud or turn it off.
Why did you make it where it was so aggravating to play on the iPad now. We hate it.
Keep going back to it. Play another game but can't wait to finish so we can go back to this one.
This is frustrating game, but we love the challenge…..keeps our mind working….you dont win many but worth the challenge….love…love…love!!!,!,.
We play this game whenever we have a few minutes, or when we're watching TV. It's so much fun and good for the brain.
This is a fun and challenging game. To record the best scores, one should not start a game if he/she does not have about an hour to play because the clock keeps running when play is paused. Wes.
Very addictive game. We even play at 3 am in morning when we can't sleep. Great game but we wish we could clear the score board.
The game is fun. The flashing "review"thing at the bottom is annoying.
This is a great app, but please have some way of letting us know when there are no more pairs left.
This is a fun game that you can play as you race the clock or at a leisurely pace. Warning: it's addictive for word-game players.
Since the last update the game is harder to play. The screen freezes and when we try to continue playing we have to start e game over. Pleas fix it.
This game is a lot of fun. And is challenging Beverley.
One of the best games… Play all the time as it is a different play each game! Continues to challenge the ours.
Love this game. Needs a notice when there are no more pairs left.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 22.6
- Size: 61.03 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: AR, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: ZHONGYUAN SHEN
Last updated: 13th January 2026 | Genre: Board, Puzzle | Developer: ZHONGYUAN SHEN