The game is definitely rigged to get you to lose your coins in an effort to force you to purchase more. I recently showed my wife a game of three rounds and told her if I pull from the deck and use my draw card to replace an unturned card in my hand, the unturned card I replace it with will either be the same card I replaced it with or a -5 card. To her surprise, it was like that 100% of the time, an equation which is mathematically impossible. Further, it is like that EVERY GAME, including the live games. If you want to play a game that is frustratingly rigged to ensure you lose in an effort to get you to buy more coins, this is the game for you. A fun game to play with real cards, a rigged game of cheating to play on the app.
I love the card game and, like many on here, I saw the insert advertising the app. So I downloaded it last night. Played two multiplayer games and lost. No big deal, everybody loses from time to time. Played some more today and lost several more games in a row. This game is designed for you to lose. It becomes glaringly obvious after the first 4-5 games.
But (and what is really sinister about this app) the more you lose, the more money the developer makes. They will bleed you dry of your initial batch of coins by rigging every game for you to lose. They do this with the hope that they trigger some urge in you to win. They're hoping once you run out of coins you'll buy more coins for the chance to win. I'm really not sure how the developers sleep at night. They are greed personified. They've taken a great game and corrupted it to the point of unplayability.
I'll be reporting the app to Apple. It's not much, but there exists a non-zero chance that Apple sees my report and removes this app from the app store. And even if that chance gives the developer only a second of anxiety, it'll be worth it.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for the glowing review! We would like to award you some coins to continue playing! Shoot us a message from our in-app support and we'll send them over. Tell them Jake sent you!Just played this for the first time in real life and was super excited to find it as a game on my phone. You start out with quite a few coins however it cost 500 coins to play against real people.
At first this doesn’t seem a big deal, even though I wasn’t winning every game I won enough to boost my coins up quite a bit. Then, after the first day of playing, I have won zero games, even against AI. Meaning No more coins
The ad you can watch, to “earn” coins only gives you 100 coins and the free spin is only every 24 hours. That also only gives you a small amount of coins.
I understand you’re not gonna win every game, that is life and I honestly don’t mind losing. Keeps you humble. But to win zero games in 24 hours seems a little suspicious. It’s almost like they want you to run out of coins so you’ll spend money buying more. No thanks. I will probably delete this game as it’s no fun only being able to play against ai.
Developer Response
The AI is too smart! We're working fixing it ASAP.
Developers don’t seem to be able to get the single player vs bot settings correct. It used to be that the bots were completely brainless. They’d pass you cards that would let you complete sets and would never go out unless they got a 3 or less.
Now the bots are better. They seem to be making good decisions. But the card draws are rigged in the bots’ favor. Bots consistently get what they need, but players rarely get what they need - unless the player would end up discarding a card that the bot needs. It’s clearly rigged.
But even that would be fine for an added challenge for those who want it. I’m not app developer and so I don’t know what this would entail, but I would suggest three game modes vs bots.
Hard mode - which would keep everything as is
Normal mode - which would actually randomize the cards
Easy mode - which would have the deck be rigged in the human’s favor
Would really love to give this game 5 stars but there is a big glitch in the offline version that needs to be addressed. After a final putt is started, on occasion, the game will go directly to the score screen not letting me finish my turn. It gives me a score, sometimes I win the round sometimes I don’t but I do not get to actually finish the round by myself. At first I thought I was missing something as the screen changes so fast and there is no option to view the last page but started to carefully paying attention and sure enough it happens quite often, once I even had two cards uncovered that were not turned over before the game went to the score screen. Other that that, this is a great game. I might add I usually play offline with 2 players as a want to just play a quick game. I don’t agree with the complaints of this being rigged to give the computer an unfair advantage, actually this seems to be the best “random” play game I’ve ever played. I seem to win/lose about the same as when playing the actual game. The ads don’t aren’t any worse than other games, probably better as most are very short and unobtrusive. I haven’t run into any of those really irritating ad that hide the X or makes you chase it only to get another ad once you hit it! If my issue is ever fixed or even the option is given to go back to look at the last game screen before going to the next round I will be more than happy to give this app 5 STARS!
(#1 huge issue) I have to keep exiting the app and turning off my phone just because of the ads and it’s so annoying
#2 fix offline playing for when in the car I can practice aginst a computer or bot.
(#3 BUG ISSUE) The amount of bugs I’ve experienced is absurd, for example when I am playing a normal match with random people in multiplayer, sometimes it just kicks me out for no reason at all, I have all 3 bars for WiFi and I know WiFi isn’t the issue. This is very annoying and I’d like it to be fixed
I play guest, just myself, and nine holes.
Too many ads.
I have to turn off my smartphone to end the nauseating ad.
Then I turn on.
Cheat mode:
If my opponent, the app, is really behind in its putts, it will suddenly readjust to cheat mode to give itself big negative scores.
My opponent, the app, will quickly give itself all matches, (usually low numbers), while giving myself high cards, with no or few matches.
Then my opponent, the app, will go out early so I end up with a high score so I eventually lose the game.
If I have a nine over zero, and I made six consecutive attempts to get a nine or zero, but with no luck, and if my opponent, the app needs a zero, it will suddenly give me a nine.
I then match nine over nine for zero in that column, and the app gets its zero to score even lower than I.
Then it goes out early.
My opponent, the app, is determined to win, no matter the cheating the app usually does to win.
My opponent, the app, may even figure out the math wrong to its advantage.
Often my opponent, the app, gives itself minus fives and low cards.
Often certain low numbers are rarely seen by me to get in my play, but are often seen by my opponent, the app, to get in its play.
Developers claim not rigged but ohh is it ever! It’s coded to favor any player/s I play. My guess, whoever pays actual money for it is given preferential treatment! I can quickly identify who is going to win at beginning of game. If it isn’t the person immediately playing after me I will pass them my best cards to help them win, buttttt the player predetermined will get even better cards. It is more entertaining playing this way than actually playing to win. Would be really great if it was random like the actual card game.
UPDATE: I continued playing with varying results but mostly lose to the online bots! I just ended a game with a quick close and despite me in the lead and still ahead after counting the others cards I still lossed! Why rig it this way? This app is rigged, so you can’t win against the bot. If you buy coins and tickets which are worthless, you’re just wasting your money. Too bad, would’ve been a great app! Horrible app!!! Bots rule, don’t I mean don’t but coins and tickets. Don’t line the developers pockets.
Developer Response
Hi! We're going to rewrite the bots code to make it a better experience for you. We'll keep you updated.The app version of this game is SO frustrating to play. If you are playing offline against the bots, the bots will win 90% of the time. This isn’t a skill issue either. The cards are always in their favor. If you think you’ve pulled good cards, chances are the bot will start to pull -5s - 3s every turn. Also, in the multiplayer it seems the game chooses a favored player and does everything possible to make that person win. The cards don’t seem random at all. If I ever played the app version of this game before I played the card version I would have never fallen in love with the card game because I would have never given it a chance.
The game itself is super fun, but there are huge issues with the app. 1) it glitches out frequently. Earlier today it skipped a round entirely and gave us each the score for that hand we were initially dealt. I went from being in first place to last. Sometimes it will glitch during a round and show you a card and then you place the card and it sort of freezes up and then shows that you chose a different card and put it in a different spot when it comes back. It has also shown me everyone’s hand they were dealt before. 2) there appears to be no way to report players that I can figure out, and players will frequently (1-2x/week) “slow play.” In other words, they will purposefully let the entire timer run out and then let the computer move for them. They do this for every move for the whole entire game, apparently in an effort to get the other players to quit because it’s so infuriatingly slow. I cannot imagine why they do this (I don’t think there’s an incentive - I think even after everyone quits the game keeps going??), but there’s nothing you can do about it when it happens, and if you leave you’ve wasted a ticket. Not the biggest deal (tickets are easy to get), but incredibly annoying.
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