Hooked Mobile HD Speeds Up The Game Of Poker To Super Fast
Hooked Mobile HD (Free) by RockYou, Inc. is a card game for the iPad where time is of the essence. See how many hands you can get in only 60 seconds. Use your winnings to unlock more levels.
Using the basic rules of poker, players must pick from a selection of floating fish cards and build as many five-card hands as possible in 60 seconds. When time is up, a shark swims up and chases the card fish away.
The rules are not exactly like poker, players earn points for things like, hands with one of each different colored card fish or hands with cards that are all the same color. Straights and full houses earn extra points when the cards are all the same color, or each a different color.
Players can change the selection of card fish they have to choose from by tapping the electric eel. The current school of fish will swim away and a whole new set will swim in. Be careful of how often you use the eel, though. It costs one pearl every time you use it, and pearls aren’t easy to come by.
There are also bonus fish and sea floor items that increase the point score and add tickets and pearls. Tickets are used to unlock new levels and pearls are used to activate the electric eel. At the end of each 60-second round, there is a bonus game where players spin the wheel to earn additional tickets and pearls.
This game is so fun and addictive that it is surprising that it is free. There are no in-app purchases and no levels to unlock for real money. It is truly free.
It is probably a good thing that this game is free, because it is not perfect. For one thing, there is no explanation as to what coins, tickets and pearls actually do. There is no guide to unlocking new levels. It would be good to see an update that includes this additional information.
Another problem with this game is the point calculation. It really doesn’t work well. For example, I would earn pearls that wouldn’t show up in the next round. Sometimes, I would start a round with 14 pearls and, even though I didn’t use the electric eel, I would suddenly only have four of them.
Since the game is free, it isn’t a big deal that the scoring doesn’t work properly, but it is frustrating when pearls are important for using the electric eel feature and you can’t get the them to stay put.
Even though there are a couple of minor issues, this game is totally worth the download. It is free and fun. Players will have a blast trying to outdo their highest score. How many hands can you make in 60 seconds?
