Euchre - Expert AI

NeuralPlay, LLC

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

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

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 bids and plays throughout the game and point out differences.
• Play review. Step through the play of the hand to review and improve your play.
• 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. Claim the remaining tricks when your hand is high.
• Achievements and leaderboards.

Rule customizations include:

• Joker (Benny) support. Choose to play with the Joker or the Two of Spades as the highest trump.
• Deck size. Play with a 24, 28, or 32 card deck.
• Stick the dealer. Choose if when trump is not determined on the second round of bidding, the dealer must choose a trump suit.
• Canadian loner. Choose if the dealer's partner must play alone when accepting trump during the first round of bidding.
• Going under. Choose whether or not when one is dealt three or more 9s and 10s, one can swap three of them with the face down cards from the kitty.
• Need suit to call it. Choose whether or not one must have the suit in hand in order to choose it as trump.
• First lead when alone. Choose whether left of dealer or left of maker leads when a player goes alone.
• Face up card. Choose whether the dealer or the bidder receives the face up card after bidding.
• Misdeal option. Choose from several misdeal options, including ace no face and no ace no face (farmer's hand).
• Super Euchre option. Defenders receive 4 points if they capture all the tricks.
• Game over. Choose whether the game ends at a predetermined number of points or after a certain number of hands.

Ratings and reviews

Was looking for a euchre game that allowed name customization along with other granular tunable settings, plus could be outright purchased for a decent price to eliminate ads. Tested a variety of euchre games, and this one fit the bill. $9.99 seemed expensive, but the others I tried cost more and were not as customizable.

Edit Tried again March 24... updated and ads have taken over! Game is unplayable now. I guess they are trying to drive you crazy so you buy that game... unacceptable. Edit... I'm not sure what happened, but now I get ads after every hand. Way too much. So long NeuralPlay. It's better than others, but AI partner's leads can be quite frustrating at times.

The interface is serviceable, though I wish it would show the trump suit near the player who called it rather than always near my partner. The degree of customization is great. Unfortunately, the computer players are rather dumb at all levels, including custom ones. It often comes down to luck. Luck is always an element in card games, but it shouldn't be the determining element. I don't know which Monte Carlo implementation is being used, so I can't suggest an improvement, but this seems weak.

What’s new

• UI improvements.
• AI improvements.

Thank you for your suggestions and feedback!