Ask HN: Best worldwide / classic phone games?

4 points by bix6 10 hours ago | 5 comments

I want to get into classic games that I can improve over time and play people worldwide. So far I have chess, go, black jack, scrabble, backgammon. Does anyone have any other game recommendations or specific iPhone / web apps they like? So many of them are ad riddled / privacy issues.

dankwizard 24 minutes ago |

If you're wanting to actually improve over time, you'll have to drop a few. There's not enough time in the day to be a master of all trades. I'd suggest spending more time on Chess - Do a small learning component where you read a book or do some opening theory, then do a portion doing puzzles to learn tactics and spotting common positions in Chess games, then finally play some 10 minute games to put into action what you have practiced.

Something1234 1 hour ago |

Man I was really hoping this was reminiscing about classic ipod games.

Anyways since no one is listing real games, I'll list 2 I enjoyed a lot.

- i dig it - zombie farm

late_night_fix 9 hours ago |

Card games like spades,hearts or Gin Rummy have solid mobile versions and decent privacy.For classic arcade vibes,Tetris and pac-man still have active global leaderboards.

bix6 8 hours ago | |

Great recs thank you!

fsflover 10 hours ago |

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperTuxKart