Darn It! by Darren Butler is played with a regular deck of cards on a 4x4 grid. The object of the game is to place the four kings in the corners of the grid, the four queens in the vertical edge slots, and the four jacks in the horizontal edge slots. You must also empty the interior slots.
The cards start in a face-down pile. One card is turned up and must be placed on the grid before the next card can be shown. If it is a face card, by default it will automatically fill any available slots in either the diagonals, vertical edges, or horizontal edges. If no slot is available the game is over. If not a face card, you must place it on an empty grid slot.
When the grid is full, you must start removing non-face cards in pairs of ten regardless of suit (A and 9, 2 and 8, 3 and 7, 4 and 6, or two 5). Tens can be removed by themselves. If no cards can be removed, the game is over. Once all available pairs are removed, fill the empty slots with the next cards from the pile, then remove cards again. Game play continues until you cannot place a face card, until all slots are filled and no pairs are present, or until all face cards have been placed and all other cards removed.
Darn It! lets you chose from several card backs, and lets you decide if cards should be instanteously moved to their location on the grid after a tap or if the cards should visibly move from the deck to the grid. This option can be applied to all cards, no cards, or just face cards. Since face cards can move without a tap, it may be more desirable to turn on animations for these cards.
Darn It! also keeps game statistics. It keeps track of the total number of games won and lost as well as your longest winning and losing streaks. It also displays the percentage of games you've won.
Darn It! is shareware and costs $7.
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