Last updated on January 22nd, 2026 at 01:50 am
Cassino! – Card Game Review
Cassino! is a Card game from Michael Dokken, first launched in 13th September 2012.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 301+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Cassino! Stand Out
Cassino is a fun, easy to learn card game. The object of the game is to build and capture cards and score the most points. Cassino! includes a tutorial to get started quickly, and detailed rules describing the exact play of the game. Cassino! supports 2 player, 3 player, and 4 player, single player and multiplayer games. Single player games are played against computers. Local multiplayer games can be played over bluetooth or wifi. Online multiplayer games can be played against invited friends or random opponents.
Features-
-Tutorial
-Rules
-Single Player:
~2-4 players
~Play against computers
~Four difficulty levels
-Variations:
~Royal
~Draw
~Sweep
~Other Variations
-Multiplayer:
~2-4 players
~Play Locally over bluetooth or wifi
~Or Online through game center
~Or Turn-Based online through game center
-Game Center:
~Leaderboards
~Achievements
-Statistics
~Tracks wins and losses against each difficulty level
This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Cassino! is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th November 2024
Recent improvements include:
- Added new color schemes in settings
- Added new leaderboard for wins in a row against insane 4 player
- Other fixes and improvements
Download & Availability
Cassino! 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:
Love the app. The online feature to play with friends is not working lately. Can you fix it. They cant connect.
We have been playing Cassino since our childhood and even created a Cassino computer game in Windows years ago, so we consider ourselves to be pretty knowledgeable about the game. Michael Dokkens implementation is first rate and provides a worthy opponent. The UX is clean and intuitive and very enjoyable to use. We just read another review that claimed it didnt follow the rules, the cards dealt were not random and overall played poorly. That is ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT! Please take a look at the various configuration options and settings before posting a baseless negative review! We play with the difficulty set to Hard and find that we win a little over 50% of the time, which is what we would expect as a skilled player. The highest difficulty level (called Insane) is quite a challenge to beat and our guess is that it keeps track of the cards that are played and uses probability and statistics to give itself super human skills. If you play at this level be prepared to be humbled! Dont hesitate to try this fabulous implementation of the best card game there is – Cassino! Youll love it!!! Full disclosure: we have no relation, personal or business with Mr. Dokken and was not asked to write this review. The opinions expressed are our own and we stand by them 100%.
We learned to play this a million years ago as a kid & was elated to see it as an app. We haven't experienced any of the woes that others have commented on. Also love the no ads.
Thanks for the review. Alternating who is dealt cards first would not have any effect since the cards are randomly shuffled. Advantage goes to whomever makes the last play as they have a possibly leveraged opportunity to clean the board.
Our grandmother taught us how to play cassino. We spent many hours playing it with her. She passed in 1997 and, besides our brother (who used to play with us and our grandmother) and one friend from college who happened to know the game, we never could find anyone else to play cassino with. Then we found this app. The game-play can be customized to play they way you're used to playing. The app is designed and works well. Every time we play it, we remember the great times we had playing with our grandmother. We're so glad we found this app. It truly is a joy.
Your Rule Wrong! And then draws a card so that they have four cards in their hand again. No! Only when all players finish playing their 4 cards are you supposed to deal 4 more to each! If we are building, and the opponent cannot take our build, but gets another card dealt immediately, they have greater chances of stealing our continuing builds, multiple card builds. It takes the fun out of the game. We will not play this.
This app is absolutely revolutionary. We play this app from the moment we wake up to the moment we go to sleep. 5 stars truly is not enough. Words cannot describe the joy this game brings us.
We grew up playing regular casino with our dad and brothers, at home or on the boat; so when we found a casino app we were very excited. This one has much better play options than the first one we found, like changing it to casino royale rules. This game is classic commercial fisherman passed time, and we do something that we wish you could do on here. We use the jokers as (-1/-2) wild cards. We have some decks that have them as (-1), and others have (-2). We also play with multiple decks if you want to play with more than 4 players. It makes it much harder to keep track of how many aces, or other high cards have been played already. We really like what theyve done with this game. The only other thing we would add if possible, would be sound, so you could talk to the other players.
We dono what it is lately, but the AI seems to always have certain cards at certain times. Majority of the time, last card is an ace. Quite often seems to have the stack we made. Not a fun experience anymore when Im yelling at an AI.
We have been playing this game for years. This morning while playing it on the very first hand we picked up a 10 with a 10. Then we drew another 10. One of our opponents, then built 10s which we took with the 10 in our hand. We then drew the 10 of diamonds. That was now four 10s. Then the opponent down the fifth 10. We built Kings by adding a three which we were able to pick up. Then the other opponent built 10s and picked it up with the sixth 10 in the deck. This is not the first time that we have noticed this in the game, but it is the first time that it was so blatant.
We dont normally leave reviews but we feel the need. We have played 2516 games in the hard mode and am at 56% win percentage. We just started the insane level and have played 216 games and we are at 39%. We have been playing this game for almost 60 years with real cards. We win way more games with real cards. We read you say the cards are dealt randomly. We dont agree. We dont make many mistakes and we can truthfully say IMHO the AI machine driving this game is slanted toward the computer. There are way too many instances where the computer gets a particularly needed card at the right time. Also we see way too many times of 4 of a kind show up in both hands. There are many other nuances regarding the cards dealt that seem to go to the computer. Hard to put in writing but our gut feeling is that this game needs a new AI machine.
So the gameplay itself is good in comparison to some other apps Ive tried. This one is pretty easy to use. However, there are obvious advantages given to the computer that are not allowed for the user. For example: The board has a 2 and the computer is building 8 with a 5 & 3 together. The game will not allow us the option to pick up that 2 and 8building with a 10 card. Whereas the computer IS able to make such a move. As well as the other issues listed in previous reviews. Simply put, the computer is able to make moves that the actual user cannot.
We can beat the game at any level, that is not a problem. The issue is that the computer can make a multi move build that it does not have the cards for in its hand. There is an option for this and we have it turned off, but the computer will still do this. Example: The computer will build 3 and 4 for 7 and then add an Ace to make 8, but does not have a 7 in its current hand. It has done this to us multiple times on different levels of difficulty. Outside of this, it is a great game with great options. We applaud the work and pray they fix the bug.
We love playing this card game with friends so we thought Id try this app. The problem is that the computers hands ALL seem to have every single card needed to make the play every single time. Its very frustrating and just not fun.
Ad bar covers the status bar at the bottom of the screen.
It really feels like the computer is at an advantage. Ive only been dealt the 10 of diamonds once. Its a good app but its quite difficult even at the easy level.
Good game but its bugged, crashes every time we change settings.
In traditional cassino the face cards have zero value and can't be used to build. But except for that it would be a solid app.
The harder the difficulty the more the computer has what you have. The amount of times that we have witnessed four of one card in one hand is absolutely ridiculous. Chances are if you have a card the computer will have it too. Its not fun to a play a game when the computers hand consistently changes based on what you have.
Why is it the second Im on hard or hardest even medium the computer doesnt get smarter they just have every winning hand? Also they play a 10 after we play our ace instead of their 6 when we have a pair of aces. Unrealistic you would never ever play the 10 before the 6. Its just crazy the difficulty is only harder because the computer is gifted nearly perfect plays to your plays every time.
We love how simple this game is and it has the most game options we have ever seen on a game we hadnt played casino in 15 years it was always our go to game on the breaks that we card and dice dealers took we are really enjoying it keep up the good work.
Very fun. Like that you can play different game versions because we prefer traditional.
We like the options it has but the tracking at the bottom is almost always blocked by an ad. We didnt even know it was there the first few weeks we played. Also wish you had an android version so we can play against our friends not on Apple devices. The computer makes some stupid obvious mistakes. Wish we could back up to redo a move in a learning mode.
We like this game but it does not matter what setting the game is on its impossible to win. The computer wins all the time as much as we try to win or come close the computer always win.
The game cheats. The developer claims it doesnt cheat in other reviews but he lied. Anyone that is advanced in playing this game will know. For example, too often, the computer seems to have the right card. It doesnt happen that way in real life.
We totally agree ! Love the card game.. But it cheats ! How is the computer can stack 10 cards.. We stack 4 & it takes it ! The computer always know what Im holding ! The few cards.. WOW! They have the exact same ! Man come on ! Im deleting & goin elsewhere.
Fantastic AI. On the insane difficulty level it gives you a very good opponent. Best Cassino game on the App Store.
This app does a great job, but it doesnt allow situations where you can capture a build with a different card and something off the table. For instance: we cannot capture an A4 build of 5 with the extra 4 on the table and our 9 in the hand. This is allowed in Cassino as far as we know. If not it should be an option in the rules customization. Tough to beat the AI on insane without this move.
Played this game with our dad as a youngster. It was the first card game we ever learned. This game brings back memories of the times we played with our dad. Love this game and all the variations. Thank you for including the new statistics section.
This version forces you to pick your build if you cannot add to it. The rules of the game allow you to pick another card instead of your build. The iPhone version does allow you to pick another card instead of your build. Please fix. How do we fix our game? We found it all fixed. Thanks. Now we love the iPad version also. Have played this game for over 60 years.
Our grandmother taught us how to play cassino. We spent many hours playing it with her. She passed in 1997 and, besides our brother (who used to play with us and our grandmother) and one friend from college who happened to know the game, we never could find anyone else to play cassino with. Then we found this app. The game-play can be customized to play they way you're used to playing. The app is designed and works well. Every time we play it, we remember the great times we had playing with our grandmother. We're so glad we found this app. It truly is a joy.
Overall, this is a good app. We like that this app lets you toggle all the main Cassino rules variants.
There's almost nothing wrong with the app. It's comprehensive, the computers are challenging, and the gameplay is smooth for the most part. Here are some things that could be improved: – add an animation when you win, the "you won" text is dry and boring. When we win, we want to be rewarded for it! If only digitally lol – add a record of wins and losses. We think it'd be interesting to see our W/L ratio and if there's any trends the more we play. – the computer makes obvious mistakes, like trailing a 5 when theres a 7 trail and a built Queen on the table. They could be a little smarter. It seems like they just have better cards or the right cards to steal your plays most of the time. There is a bug that allows players to build a 10 and a 16 both on the big cassino that leads to a crash.
The computer has options to build that the player does not! Bogus.
Its super glitchy… Hard to finish a game without the app crapping out… Any chance we can fix the glitch.
Yall need to fix this game, its almost predictable.
Tried to install variations like sweep but it wont let us. Help a bug.
Making a game fixed and impossible to win isn't challenging; it's cheating.
App crashes when playing multi player!! Need to fix glitches.
Horrible game!!!! Its three against one, the computer set you up to lose!!!! The game has s NEVER at random. Dont waste your time.
This game must use a set of probabilities that doesn't exist elsewhere in the known universe as the dealer almost always gets the 10 of diamonds and more often then not 3 or 4 of a kind come up between the common cards or in the players' hands. But hey it's only math and this seems to escape this app quite easily. Would give it zero stars if we could. Also use the 4.99 you charge everyone to take a stats class at your local community college to learn about probabilities.
Been playing Casino forever with f&f up until we moved- this opened up a whole new playing field. The customizable rules make it by far our favorite way to run out the battery on our devices. . Only part that would make it better is ability to quickly go from one game to next instead of back out of each screen on the multiplayer fields. AND ability to send a note or reaction on friend games.
A wonderful implementation of the Cassino card game with a worthy opponent to play against! To those that reviewers who say the deck is not random are wrong. It is. We win approximately 80% of the time with the difficulty set to Hard. Luck does play a role but even more important is the strategy used. Keep playing and lean from your losses and you will improve.
We love this game – we heard it's considered to b a jailhouse game (from an older lady from Decatur ga -TOOTALL).
Our father taught us this game as a young child. This is a little different, but, love it just the same. The only problem is when we initiate the game it will shut down all by itself.
It is a fun game to play with many options. We love playing Cassino.
Great game, please consider adding the option of the 5 of Spades takes all cards on the board. Also, as with another variation, please have the option to makes Aces only 14 pts and not both 14 pts and 1 point.
Workaround to the matching hands syndrome noted in numerous other reviews- you can make this work to your advantage or you can restart the game for a fresh deal.
Good selection of rule variations should make any player feel right at home. 2-player game is great, 3-player is too easy to beat vs. The computer, and 4-player game should offer partner playthats the bestbut it doesnt.
In most of the games we play against the computer, the computers King will build up to 14 cards in one round of play. We finally took a screenshot – its so common. Also, the scoring is not always 11 points split between the two players. We took a screenshot of a game in which only a total of 7 points was given. Otherwise, we love playing this game. Now, off to get trounced by the computer and its building of Kings. :).
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.5
- Size: 17.47 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Michael Dokken]()
Last updated: 8th November 2024 | Genre: Card | Developer: Michael Dokken