Five Hundred (500) - Expert AI

NeuralPlay, LLC

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About this game

NeuralPlay Five Hundred (500) offers many rule options. Customize to play with your favorite rules! Preset rules are provided for both American and Australian variants.

Just learning Five Hundred? The NeuralPlay AI will show you suggested bids and plays. Play along and learn!

Experienced Five Hundred player? Six levels of AI play are offered. Let NeuralPlay's AI challenge you!

Features include:
• Undo.
• Hints.
• Offline play.
• Detailed statistics.
• Replay hand.
• Skip hand.
• Customization. Choose the deck backs, color theme, and more.
• Play checker. Let the computer check your bid and play throughout the game and point out differences.
• Review the play of the hand trick by trick at the end of the hand.
• Six levels of computer AI to provide challenges for beginning to advanced players.
• Unique thinking AI to provide a strong AI opponent for different rule variations.
• Claim the remaining tricks when your hand is high.
• Finish hand early. Play quickly. Optionally finish the hand early for nullo bids when the nullo player takes a trick and the score is determined.
• Achievements and leaderboards.

Play with your favorite rules. Rule customizations include:

• Kitty/deck size. Choose from 2 to 6 cards for the kitty. The deck size will adjust accordingly adding the lower cards and an additional joker as required.
• Bidding rounds. Choose between multiple rounds or a single round.
• Nullo (Misere) bids. Choose to enable or disable Nullo bids.
• Open Nullo (Open Misere) bids. Choose the point value for Open Nullo bids.
• Slam. Optionally award a minimum of 250 points for a slam.
• Must bid to win. Optionally set a cap on the defenders' score to enforce must bid to win.
• Inkle bids. Choose to make 6 level bids Inkle bids.
• Slam. Choose whether or not to award a slam bonus for taking all the tricks.
• Defender scoring. Choose whether or not to award points to the defending team based on tricks taken.
• Misdeal. Optionally allow a player to declare a misdeal when dealt a hand with no aces and no faces.
• Game over. Choose whether the game ends at a predetermined number of points or after a certain number of hands.

Ratings and reviews

Great game! Has multiple common rulesets as well as the ability to customize your rules to better fit your own house rules, etc. The customization is great but there are a few issues with it. For example if you disable 6 bids you also can't do inkles. Also I'm not sure how common this is but in my house when nello is bid the bidder discards 6 cards and their partner plays the first card, but that is not an option here. Overall great quality game just a few minor things that could be improved.

The gameplay is excellent. Highly customizable, if you wish. Everything from the speed of the AI or the general gameplay to how aggressively the AI bids or how well each individual AI player plays to showing hints of how to bid or play and the size of the card graphics or their style. If you are somewhat vision impaired the easy to read cards are great. Customer support is excellent and kind. I do wish my wife could play in the game with me and there's no ad-free version but they're not too bad

I selected level 5 skill in order to try and get some insightful play from my partner. When our opponent bid open nullo, My partner tried to take all the tricks? It would have been easy to defeat with proper play by my partner. This is a waste of time for me. I decided to give 500 another try. When I select Australian method of play and expert level, the bidding and play of the computer players is at a level which allows me to enjoy the game.

What's new

• New options for joker play during notrump/nullo contracts. See settings for details.
• UI improvements.
• AI improvements.

Thank you for your suggestions and feedback!