Poker Pals for iPad : Coming in two flavors for either iPhone or iPad, Poker Pals is an interesting spin-off of poker, that popular card game that’s been played around saloon halls and on ships since the 1800s. An­other asynchronous, turn-based game, Poker Pals has players drawing from a finite deck of cards and placing them down on a seven-by-seven grid to create poker hands. The game has unique characteristics; not all poker rules from the real card game apply.

Still, this is another game that has kept my friends and I playing long after the typical iOS game fad has passed. It’s perfect for a quick and casual game.