K9 Sheepshead (Schafkopf)

King9 Games

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About this game

New! You can play with friends or computer controlled AI bots, or both.

Advanced AI focuses first on bringing in new players to the game; pick up the game and just start playing. Training progresses quickly, and even the most experienced players might learn a thing or two. Each strategic decision is explained! See inside the thought process of a mature AI originally published in 1992 and updated in 2019.

To measure your progress, you will be training a puppy which will advance through its lessons as you learn Sheepshead (aka Schafkopf). Puppy raising tips come from 16 years of service-dog training experience.

This is a fun family table card game along the lines of other trick-taking games like Spades, Hearts, Euchre, etc.

Ratings and reviews

Ok game with terrible AI and stacked deals. The deals are NOT randomised. The basic game is solid but the deals are stacked and leave you rarely actually playing the game more just watching it go by. A single AI player often gets dealt all the queens. I've seen a game end after three hands many times. The computer players are impossible juggernauts when against you, yet totally incompetent when your partner. They all work together at all times to defeat you. Incompetent programming...

Game play is OK, AI seems pretty good most of the hands. Needs an "Undo" button, especially on discards. Please add an Undo feature. Sometimes legal partner selection suits don't show up as an option. Will not allow choice of a 10 for a partner when burying an Ace or other points. The dog training thing is distracting and unnecessary for game play, but it's free, so that the price to play. Better game play than other sheepshead games in play store.

Happy to see sheepshead game app. Fun to play. The layout gives a relaxed feel to the game. Nice tutorial. One thing that I can't get past now that I have been playing a while is that the scoring changes. At the start of a game it gives correct scoring, but then doubles after a few hands. Gives +/- 2 points when Schneider is made and 4 when not. (I never have the doubler turned on). It might be an unnoticed quirk or a deliberate way of hurrying the game to an end after a few hands.

What’s new

Stability fixes
Score fix when autoplay on choose partner