Leave a Review Bridge by NeuralPlay
Truth
I downloaded this app to learn how to play bridge vs. AI. Within a couple days, the App turned my partner into a 2 year old that made ridiculous bids and horrendous card play. I’m guessing it’s due to two possibilities: 1. The AI hates to lose or 2. The creators want me to get so frustrated I delete the app after a week and go out and find a real person to play with. Both are true.Show lessCougar907
Developer Response
Thank you for your review. We are working on improvements.Some bids come from nowhere
Some of the suggested bids are ludicrous. It occasionally prompts me to promise a stopper in a suit where I have worthless doubleton. This morning, though, North made a bid promising 6 cards in the suit and had 3, 7 high. The hand did have 6 card suit but it was diamonds, not hearts… Mostly it does pretty well. Play is a another can of worms; the suggested plays frequently make no sense at all.Show lesscamb01
Developer Response
Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Bridge. Thank you for your review. We are working on improvements.Overall excellent, a few minor things
I play with the hints on and am surprised at how often it prompts me to play trump unnecessarily. But my bidding is improving significantly. Lately I’ve been super-focused on bidding. Some things I’d love to see as options: Force the final bid to a particular point - for example a 4s that I really wanted to replay as 3nt. Sometimes I can redo the bidding and trick it, but not always. Bid and then just display all the hands. Preference deals to favor majors, minors, or nt. Also, would love to see what you guys could do with a cribbage game. :)
Edit - d’oh. Scroll down and there’s bidding practice that already does one of the things I wanted. It’s like you read my mind! I’m serious about wanting you guys to do cribbage, though. :)Show lessMegela
Developer Response
Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Bridge. Thank you for your review. The AI uses a Monte Carlo Simulation algorithm to choose this plays. This results in some unnecessary trump leads, but most of the time it will not give a way a trick. If you see a case where it bad, please send us, support@neuralplay.com, the PBN file with Menu - Share Hand. We are working on improvements and examples of mis-plays are very helpful. Thank you for the helpful suggestions. We will look into them. The force a particular final bid is on our list to do. You can do this currently with some trouble. For example, by trying to trick the bidding as you mentioned. You may be able use the Settings - Play as direction to do this too. We will try to make this easier. The preference deals to majors/minors, and NT feature, we have as the Settings - Custom dealing. You can choose NT hands, strong two hands, etc. We not have all the majors/minors settings yet. We will look into adding them. Thank you for the helpful suggestions. And thank you for the Cribbage suggestion too. On our list.Love this bridge game
No stress, many options, teaches me. I’ve tried other bridge games, but always come back. I paid for the app but probably owe more bc I play it daily.Flab’s
Developer Response
Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Bridge. Thank you for your review. And thank you for your purchase too. Please enjoy NeuralPlay anytime!So Far ...
Been using this app for only a week. Have used several other apps, but so far, finding this my preferred one!CatanoogaCats1!
Some strange bids - deal seems to be not statistical
The bids from north are sometimes “interesting”. Especially when it decides to go to a small slam, there seems to be no way to find a normal bod that will stop it. I guess any of our partners do that every so often.
The more interesting thing is that the hands that south receives seem to be very strongly slanted towards lower points. Instead of counting the points, I counted the number of hands that were above or below 10 points. Slightly more than 70% of south’s hands were 9 points or lower (over 100 hands). It should be 50%. It makes things challenging, but often watching east and west play can get boring. Especially if you wanna play rubber, you know you’ll lose it very often because you are always defending.Show lessOuterbongolia
Developer Response
Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Bridge. Thank you for your review. We are working on bidding improvements. The deals are not biased to any seat. You can also play from any seat via the setting: Play as direction. Also, if you wish to play certain types of hands, you can set a bias to the dealing feature in settings. You may for example give the South direction the best hand of the deal.Theolfa
Takes forever to download.theolfa1
Looking for a thinking game.
Where can one find a Bridge game that isn’t rigged to cheat?The opponents always know much more than is possible in a real game. And, do it consistently.Joken8
Easy to use and flexible
I love playing Bridge on this app. It is well set-up, and I can even undo moves, which would be handy in real-life.
I haven’t quite figured out which bidding conventions it uses, and sometimes get thrown off by what my partner bids. But I can figure out what would have been a reasonable contract and sometimes engineer things so that they make sense, and then play the hand.Show lessDarly-Arlesia
I wish
It would give you an AI review of how you played the hand. That would be worth paying extra dollars!feckspotify
