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

Like so many card games in the play store, this one has clear problems with randomization. I'm pretty sure the "intelligence" setting is hoe much the algo stacks the deck. Been playing 500 for decades, and I've never seen the luck of opposing teams like is represented in this game. Opposing team always gets the perfect distribution. Your partner never has that offsuit ace. Just bad overall.

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.

this is game is almost never in your favor. No matter how or what I do to change how the AI plays, can't find that balance. Your opponents somehow always have perfect hands almost every time. I struggle to even have a hand worth bidding almost 90% of the time. And then when you do get a good hand, your teammate will out bid you with some crazy bid and lose. The most success I've had is bidding nullo and its getting boring.i appreciate someone developing this game but coding does need tweaked.

What's new

• AI improvements.
• UI improvements.

Thank you for your suggestions and feedback!