Mystica
Mystica
The art of bluff and strategy
Four cards face down. You’ve seen two. The lowest hand wins.
Free, for iPhone and iPad with iOS or iPadOS 17 or later. The game speaks Turkish for now; English is on the way.
Play a hand
Your turn at the table
Fifty-six cards, 0 to 13, four of each. Every card counts its face value and the lowest hand at the table wins. Here’s one round against two bots; it takes about a minute.
Peek at two
You’re dealt four cards face down and look at two of them, once. After that, the rest is memory.
Draw, then swap or discard
Draw from the deck or take the top of the discard pile. Swap it for one of your cards, or throw it away.
Powers fire from the deck
Draw a 5, 7, 9 or 12 from the deck and its power goes off. From the discard pile it’s just a number.
Follow a match
When someone discards a number you hold, throw yours on top. Only the first follow counts, and a wrong one costs a penalty card. Empty your hand this way and you win on the spot.
Call Mystica
Think your hand is the lowest? Call it at the start of your turn. Everyone else plays one last turn, then all hands turn over. A tie goes against the caller.
Five powers
Luck you can use
Four powers go off only when the card comes straight off the deck. The fifth, Nullify, waits in your hand for someone else’s.
0Nullify
Four zeros are in the deck and only one is the real Nullify; its owner knows which. Throw it when someone plays a power and that power is cancelled.
5Curse
Push the 5 into a rival’s hand: one more card, five more points.
7Peek
Look at one of your own face-down cards.
9Spy
Look at one card in a rival’s hand.
12Swap
Pick two players and swap a card between their hands.
Six themes
Repaint the whole table
A theme changes every card back, every power and the table under them. Pick yours in Settings.
Mystica
Violet night and gold stars. The house deck.
Ways to play
Two to four at the table
Strangers online, friends in the same room, or bots whenever you want a quick hand.
Online
Game Center matchmaking finds rivals for you. No match within 20 seconds? Start with bots instead.
Nearby room
Open a room and friends on the same Wi-Fi join from their own iPhones or iPads.
Practice with bots
Three bots with silly names and honest hands: they only know the cards they’ve seen.
Tutorial
A guided first hand walks you through swapping, following, the powers, Nullify and the call.
Leaderboard
Every match you win counts on the Game Center leaderboard.
Privacy
No ads. No tracking. Just cards.
- Account
- None to make. Online play and the leaderboard use your Game Center sign-in.
- Ads and tracking
- None. No ads, no analytics, no third-party code.
- On your device
- Your settings, player name, theme and win count are saved on your iPhone or iPad. None of it is sent to us.
- Online play
- Matches and the leaderboard run on Apple’s Game Center. Mystica has no servers of its own.
- Nearby rooms
- When you open a room, devices nearby see your player name. The game itself travels encrypted, device to device.