Knizia’s card game Poison, first released for the table top in 2005, is a perfect example of this. The game could almost be played with standard cards – the deck includes three colors/suits (each with three 1s, two fours and one each of 2, 5 and 7) and eight “poison” cards worth 4 each – but the company that released the game, Playroom Entertainment, printed it with a magician/warlock/witch theme. The iPod touch version of the game uses the earlier Poison graphics, and it’s a gorgeous looking little translation. The app was released 2009 by Griptonite Games and we honestly wish they’d have updated a few nagging items by now. Read on to find out what is good, and what could be improved, in this clever card game. Each player is dealt a hand of cards and must, on their turn, play a card into one of three piles. Cards of the same suit need to go together, poison cards can go anywhere. If the sum of any pile (depicted as little cauldrons) gets to 14 or more, the player who broke the 13 barrier needs to collect all of the cards in that cauldron except the one he just played into his score pile. You go until everyone is out of cards and then count up your score. The goal is to get the fewest number of points.Whoever collected the most cards of one of the colors gets to discard all of those cards. This is really what makes the game worth playing, since it gives you a chance to score low even if you get stuck with a bunch of cards early in the game. Also, there are interesting decisions to make about filling a cauldron with lots of low-point cards or one or two big cards, depending on what you have in your hand and what you’re trying to collect. Each card you end up with after any discarding scores you one point, except the poison potion cards. These are deadly to your score as they are each worth two points at the end of the round. You play a number of rounds equal to the number of players in the game (between three and six IRL and four and six on your iPhone) and that’s that. And since we have mastered the rules of this game all you have to do is download it and start playing. You know you won’t regret it.