Free iPhone and iPad games: Beat the Beast, Great Solitaire!

Welcome to another instalment of Pocket Gamer's free game round-up - a feature that highlights the top App Store titles that have been made free in the past 24 hours.

As we've stated many, many times before, prices in the App Store change frequently. Grab these freebies before you miss out on a top bargain.

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As you can see from the cropped screenshot above, Beat the Beast is an extremely colourful 360 degrees strategy title in which you defend yourself against 14 different varieties of monster across three different game modes: Campaign, Survivor, and Courageous.

Thankfully, you have access five unique towers and four special magical powers - all off which have different pros and cons.

Great Solitaire!, as we're sure you've guessed, is a solitaire game for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad that features 10,000 different sets of cards to play with, as well as three game modes: Casual, Level, and Challenge.

The most interesting of these modes is Level mode, which tasks you with completing 800 unique stages of solitaire action.