Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 03:11 am
Five Kings – Card Game Review
Five Kings is a Card/Family game from Jeffrey Pugh, first launched in 21st April 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 12+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Five Kings Stand Out
Five Kings is a challenging melding card game played solitaire or against your friends.
In this game you play 11 rounds against the computer and/or against other humans. The winner is the player who has the lowest score at the end of the game.
You start with the round of 3's where you have 3 cards and 3's are wild (in addition to Jokers). You end with the round of Kings where you have 13 cards and Kings are wild.
In each turn, draw from the Draw or Discard pile to your hand, meld your cards (by dragging them to the meld area on the screen), and discard a card to the Discard pile.
Melds are 3 or more of the same rank, or 3 or more in a sequence, including as many wild cards as you like.
A player is "out" when they have melded all their cards, giving them a score of 0 for the round.
All other players get one more turn to improve their hands, or also go out. At the end of the round, your score for the round is the sum of the unmelded cards you have left. Cards count their face value except that unmelded wild cards count 20, and unmelded Jokers count 50!
Sound difficult? Fortunately Five Kings has five (of course) game difficulties from Beginner (where the game helps you play and gives you hints) to Challenging (where your on your own against the Expert). The Easy opponent may throw you wild cards half the time, but you'll need all your skills and strategy to beat the Expert consistently.
Five Kings is inspired by the popular card game Five Crowns by Set Enterprises.
This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Five Kings is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st March 2022
Recent improvements include:
Updated for latest AppStore guidelines
Download & Availability
Five Kings 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 this version of 5 kings. Easy and fun time waster.
We started playing Five Kings with friends and am glad to have a place to practice and understand the rules better.
How do you delete players? If we could get rid of all these extras we dont want to play with anymore we would love this game.
On 2018 iPad Pro and iPhone 14 ProMax: The option to select game difficulty does not work and the bottom, right corner question icon, and the! Icons when pressed do not function.
Everytime you as a player win the game, it crashes. You never actually win because it never technically finished the game. However, it never crashes when the ai wins a game. Almost as if they designed it so only the ai can win.
How do you stop it from playing in challenging mode. We put it in hard and it keeps switching to challenging.
Needs online play. We want to play our family and friends (who are not in the same room) not against the computer or ourselves. Interface is uninteresting and confusing. Dont see a way to arrange our hand the way we want to. We will keep looking for a better version of five crowns as this one is lacking.
Five Crowns is a family favorite, so it's great to be able to play on our phone whenever we want! We can pass the phone back and forth with our friends too. Maybe the next version can play against other devices.
As someone who grew up playing cards with our siblings, it's great to find a classic melding card game available on the App Store! Sure, there's an element of luck. But strategy and card sense will lead to more wins than losses. Fun to play.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 0.9.50
- Size: 11.44 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Jeffrey Pugh]()
Last updated: 1st March 2022 | Genre: Card, Family | Developer: Jeffrey Pugh