Match cards
Play cards that match the top card by suit or rank. Can't play? Draw from the deck and your turn ends.
A little friendly trouble.
Your next
card night.
Pull up a chair. Get rid of your cards.
Try to leave your friends holding the rest.
Rachel is a tactical card game with a mischievous streak. Play a quiet solo hand or invite your favourite rivals to the table.
Good company. Questionable manners.
Easy to pick up.
Hard to put down.
Send the trouble on
Facing a draw-two attack? Play another 2 and the next player faces four. Special cards can turn a comfortable lead into a handful of trouble.
Last one loses
Empty your hand to get out. The last player still holding cards loses the game.
Meet Saturday.
A brighter table.
Same delicious trouble.
Painted felt. Drawn cards. A Saturday-morning cartoon look that makes you want to deal another hand.
Saturday has light and dark appearances. Seven table themes, optional four-colour suits and your own player portrait let you make yourself comfortable.
Learn as you play
The tutorial deals you a hand and walks you through the special cards. Try an attack, answer a skip and see what happens when you change the suit.
And when a card can't be played, the app says why rather than just refusing the tap.
There's a seat for you.
Across the table.
Or across the miles.
Bring your iPhone, iPad or Apple silicon Mac. Rachel makes room for friends — and fills the spare seats with characters.
Your friends.
Your kind of trouble.
Invite a Game Center friend right from the host lobby, wherever they are. Or get 2–8 players together on the same local network, with no account or internet needed.
How to bring a friend
Just one more hand.
A table to yourself, with fourteen character opponents and three difficulty levels. Play offline, leave a solo hand and come back to finish it later.
No sign-in needed for solo or nearby play.
Good company. Questionable manners.
Fourteen characters join you for solo games, with plenty to say about the cards you play. Vintage computer fans might recognise a few of the personalities. Meet Sid, Speccy and The Scribe.
Sid
C64-1982
From a universe of three-voice symphonies and 64 honest kilobytes. Smug about it.
Speccy
ZX-1984
From a universe of bedroom coders, rubber keys, and glorious clashing colour. Plays chaos.
The Scribe
MAMLUK-1370
From the origin universe — the first Rachel, before the world knew it. Teaches while winning.
The rest of the table includes a Victorian gambler and a ghost from 2077. Their table talk gives you someone to beat, even when you're playing alone.
The vintage connection goes beyond the characters. Rachel also has a VIC-20 version and a playable C64 development build, with more ports underway. Explore the vintage versions.
Settle in at your table
Use VoiceOver to follow the game, make the text larger or give each suit its own colour. Rachel follows your accessibility settings.
VoiceOver throughout
Hear the cards, whose turn it is, what your opponents play and the result of the game.
Dynamic Type
The table, the cards and the menus all scale with your preferred text size, up through the accessibility sizes.
Four-colour suits
Print diamonds in blue and clubs in green, so no two suits share a colour. Your choice, kept whichever theme you play in.
Contrast and motion
Rachel supports Increased Contrast for the cards and table, and Reduce Motion for animations.
If something is hard to read or use, tell Steve.
Also on some rather older computers
Rachel also runs on the VIC-20 and Commodore 64. Both versions play solo with up to seven computer opponents, without a modem or server. The VIC-20 needs an 8KB memory expansion; the C64 uses its own RAM.
The C64 development build can also reconnect to an interrupted online game and recover its seat and hand. Solo play and network recovery have been tested in emulation. Physical hardware testing is still pending, and there is currently no public server for vintage multiplayer.
See Rachel on the C64, explore the VIC-20 release, or read the shared network protocol.
Take a seat
The cards are dealt. The company is good. Someone is about to make things difficult.
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