Harvey's Hundreds for iPhone

A classic memory game presented by Steve Harvey

As one of the most prolific show hosts in the industry today, Steve Harvey’s had his fair share talk shows. His most recent one, Steve TV Show, features celebrity interviews, monologues, and audience games. One of the audience games featured in the show is called Harvey’s Hundreds where players play a memory game with the chances of winning a cash prize. Now, Harvey’s Hundreds can be played by everyone on their very own mobile devices. Developed by Quantasy, is Harvey’s Hundreds the mobile game as good as seen on TV?

Simple Mechanics

The mechanics of Harvey’s Hundreds is simple, and most people have probably played this game before when they were kids as a card game. Also known as Memory, Harvey’s Hundreds involve finding matching tiles among the numbered tiles. The game continues until the player matches all the tiles or until they run out of time or moves.

The time limit, number of tiles, and moves changes depending on the game mode that the player chooses. 

Journey or Classic Mode

The app has two game modes. The first is the Journey mode. In this mode, players must go through levels with increasing difficulty until they reach the end of the game. Each level has a specific challenge that players must complete before they can progress to the next level. Some of the challenges involve making several matches within a time limit or clearing the board within a specific number of moves. Journey mode also has four boosters that can help players out. Players can use boosters to peak at the board, get more time, get a hint from Steve Harvey, and get more turns. Players are given three lives at the start of the game. Once they’ve used up all their lives, they can use the hundreds they’ve earned as extra lives. 

Classic mode, on the other hand, plays more like the game show. Players must make ten matches in order to clear the board. They can choose to play on easy, medium, and hard difficulty level. The time limit changes in higher level games.

Graphics and Replayability

The graphics of Harvey’s Hundreds is pretty good. There are no clashing colors and the interface is pretty standard for this kind of game. One minor issue is that the real-life picture of Steve Harvey on the first screen is a bit distracting. Additional, other than the first screen, you don’t really get Steve Harvey’s presence in this game at all. That’s not strictly necessary, but it would have been nice to see Steve Harvey’s famous snarky humor to give the game some more personality.

Replayability is also limited. There comes a point where matching tiles get boring. Once Journey Mode is done, playing on Classic Mode doesn’t have the same appeal. It might be good for little kids who need to be distracted, however.

A Good Time Killer

Overall, this game is worthwhile. It’s not very notable, whether in a positive or negative way. However, it will pass the time if you’ve got a lot of it on your hands. Download it if you’re a fan of Steve Harvey, but playing Memory with cards is pretty good too.