Pinochle - Expert AI

NeuralPlay, LLC

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About this game

Just learning Pinochle? The NeuralPlay AI will show you suggested bids and moves. Play along and learn!

Experienced Pinochle 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.
• Bid and play checker. Let the computer check your bid and play throughout the game and point out differences. Great for learning!
• 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.
• Achievements and leaderboards.

Play with your favorite rules. Rule customizations include:x
• Single deck or double deck.
• Modern or classic scoring.
• Pass from zero to four cards.
• Play with a kitty of four cards.
• Set the minimum opening bid from 10 to 50 points.
• Set the bid increment after 60 to one or five.
• Customize the meld values. Set the run value to 25 points instead of 15, for example.
• Meld bidding. Convey your approximate meld points to your AI partner with jump bidding.
• Optionally require a marriage in the trump suit to bid.
• Extra K or Q with run. Set the value for an extra K or Q in a run to 0 points, 2 points, or 4 points.
• Set the minimum meld points required to claim meld.
• Set the minimum trick points to save meld.
• Choose whether or not to allow surrender of the hand after bidding.
• Set the points awarded to the opponents on surrender.
• Initial lead. Choose to allow any suit to be lead or require trump to be lead.
• Must beat. Choose whether one must pay higher when any suit is lead or only when trump is lead.
• Set the card point values for the A, 10, K, etc.
• Choose to enable Shooting the Moon and determine the score point value.
• When both teams reach the winning score, choose whether the winning team is the team with the highest score or the one that made the last bid.
• Choose whether the game ends at a predetermined number of points or after a certain number of hands.

Ratings and reviews

The UI is well done and generally easy to use. I find the screen a little busy sometimes and a little hard to read. This game bids reasonably well, and its computer players are better than others. It still makes some annoying mistakes, but it does some things well, like it actually counts cards and plays the lowest point winner. Overall, it's a well done game. Since it supposedly has AI, it'd be really cool if it learned, but I don't think it does.

Good game. I only have a couple of issues but they are big ones. #1 , why isn't there an option to play with real people?? That is something I would spend real $ for, Invite your friends to play option.#2 I have the difficulty level for your opponents set at 6, (the hardest) and I still win fairly easy. The only time I lose is when my teammate makes numerous mistakes. Everything else is solid! But playing against real people is what makes this game FUN. A chat option with real players= AWESOME!

I've been playing for a long time. Your partners in this game won't play their aces when they get in the lead then they end up getting them cut. I've seen the partner diss aces when they no longer have trump and keep lower cards. This is with the game settings on the highest difficulty. In addition their should be an option to give the opponents the 31 trick points and move on to the next hand especially when their isn't any possibility of saving the meld. It's time consuming.

What's new

• Card counter. New option to show the cards played during play. See settings to enable.
• UI improvements.
• AI improvements.

Thank you for your suggestions and feedback!