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Updated review… fun game.. very competitive.. I have won and lost games.. won many in a row and lost several in a row. It can get frustrating because players who are randomly selected to be a playing partner quit for various reasons: phone battery runs out, watches advertisements too long; made a bade decision while playing (bid too high or went zero and could not achieve it). This game needs to make communication better between players and prevent players from quitting a game. Fun game. Just relax and play, learn to win and accept a loss.
Updated review: Please up date the ability to communicate to other players in the “play rated game”. Some communication Examples might be: were gonna win; don’t quit. My mistake. Oops. awesome play. Why did he/she leave?. The phone’s battery must have died. Accidentally unplugged. I have a bad hand. My hand is impressive. Good comeback. Hang in there we will comeback to win. Don’t quit. Just to name a few. I am sure others have suggested expanded communication. ————— This game is fun and competitively difficult. Fun and very competitive. Your partner, whom ever that may be, can get upset and leave in midst of game. Sometimes exiting a game early is not always the fault of a player ... sometimes it’s the phone battery’s fault.Show lessEnterprise 425
Developer Response
Thank you for your 5-star review! The system will detect if a player is disconnected, and they are removed from the game without a penalty. We are considering ways to discourage players from intentionally abandoning a game. We have shared your insight with our developers, and they will take it into account as they continue to improve the game over time.Partner is worthless at times
This game is user friendly but your partner does very dumb things, mostly when you go nil. When I go nil or bn, my partner almost always spades another suit with his HIGHEST spade and then plays lower spades when the suit is actually led. I get set often because of this. Also, he leads with low cards even though he is holding higher ones. For instance, he recently led with an 8, but later on played the Ace in the same suit. Furthermore, it is extremely hard to set opponents because they bag all the time. But on the other hand, my partner will not get his bid about 40% of the time. If the developer responds with “The computer partner plays his best card”, it’s not true. I’ve been playing spades a very long time and know he could be a lot better.Show lessDon't have a nucjname
Skip it
Here is the problem with this app when u play for ranking u get paired with a terrible player they bid 9 and get 4 then leave the game. I stick out the game and I lose points. I also hate that it’s easy to get a nil hand some games are over in two rounds because a player can get two nils. The app should not give so many points for a nil in a game to 250. It’s fine if it’s a friendly game to 500 but I game to 250 nil should be worth half the points if the ai gifts one team a win the other team shouldn’t lose points because no play they could have made will help them. The ap should also allow you the ability to tell they system if you never want to be paired with that partner again at games end. Last the ai is messed up you could be winning big and the ai will step in and help the losing side does this all the time. If I play with the computer because my partner left I should not lose points most of the time the computer is dumber than some of the players on here. The ai is seriously flawedShow lessDr Frightner13
A joke
I’ve been playing on this app since 2017. I play the rated version with real people and up until the last year or so, everything has been fine. But over the past year, they way the multiplayer is set up has become increasingly frustrating.
You get punished for the dumbest things. Like I get being “punished” for quitting a game that you’re losing but at the same time there are people that will purposely make bad plays, but I get punished for not sticking around when they are clearly sabotaging the game. And the more you “quit” the more the algorithm will purposely match you with lower rated players as “punishment.” but what about punishing the other end? People will literally bid 0 and purposely win books to make you lose 100 points and nothing happens to them.
My rating was in the 2000s and I quit 1 game because a lower rated player that was my partner just went off the rails making purposely dumb plays and now my rating has dropped to the 1600s and can’t get back up because I keep getting matched with partners that have THE lowest ratings. It literally makes no sense. And I can’t even delete my profile and start over. Like literally WHO CARES IF SOMEONE QUITS THE GAME?! I find myself HOPING that my partners will quit, because the AI partner is better than a real person.Show lessvintagehussie
Developer Response
Thank you for providing your review. We are sorry that your experience with us hasn't been a good one, and we will share your insight with our developers. Your comments allow us to make our games even better, and we really appreciate the feedback. Please feel free to use the globe icon to report any player sabotaging games, and our moderator will investigate and take appropriate action. Because one of our most common complaints is other players abandoning a game early, there is a 1-minute penalty, and it can go up to 24 hours if it happens often. The system will attempt to match you only with players at your same rating level, it is taking into account the players that are available to join a game at that time.Lack of game options
I played spades for 5 years at a competitive level, so needless to say I’m very good at this game in real life. When you play at a high level, it’s all about being in sync with your partner.
The AI partner in this game plays at the level of someone who knows the rules but has no understanding of strategy. The only way to fix this would be to train it like an actual AI, playing thousands of games against itself until it gets good. No amount of manual programming will make it good enough.
I’m terms of multiplayer, I would love to see more options in terms of game rules. For example the number of bags, the penalty for bagging out, the game type (joker joker deuce ace, joker joker deuce deuce, ace high). Maybe even house rule options such as walking the two of clubs is game over.
But mainly with multiplayer, a way to chat with your partner between hands. Maybe just one message each with a time limit, but if I could tell my partner to do certain things when I do certain things such as play your highest spade when I lead with a low spade, this game would be awesome.Show lessAdAstra1826
It’s okay BUT
This is a okay game with some serious issues. Here’s a list of a few 1- players are not well ranked and are often poor partners who make big mistakes that costs you. 2- players are allowed to drop out of the game after they screwed it up without penalty or consequence. 3- when players drop out of game bot takes over and their play is often as bad as beginners which again costs you. Very frustrating!!! 4- periodically the game locks up and you are booted or entire game is lost. 5- players who bail out of a game prematurely should be penalized for that action, regardless of whether the team wins or loses the game. Especially if they don’t make their bid or take a point on a Nill bid. There partner shouldn’t be left holding their trash bag. 6- some players are so slow in playing their cards. I understand once in awhile people get distracted but not every turn. It makes the game unenjoyable for other players. 7- often you can bid your hand perfectly but your partner over bids or doesn’t make their bids which resulted in you losing the game even when you play was spot on. Credit should be given for well played hands regardless of your partners poor play.Show lessOhNoBama
Developer Response
Thank you for your review. We are sorry that your experience hasn't been a good one, and we will share your insight with our developers. Your comments allow us to make our games even better, and we appreciate the feedback! There is a penalty for players who leave the game early, and we are considering additional ways to discourage this. The AI players will make the best play they can, but we are always working on tweaking and improving their performance. For any technical trouble with the game, please reach out to us by going to Help - Report a Problem, and we're glad to assist.Booted during ads
I love the game play on this app. I don’t pay to play free games on my phone, so I understand that seeing ads will be part of my experience. Unfortunately, they play ads in between hands (during rated games) that either can’t be exited or take so long to play that you get booted from the game. This is unbelievably frustrating. On average, I get booted once every 15 games or so. After working my way up over 2300 rating, it has become unacceptable to get booted from important games.
I will also say the amount of angry players that act like they’ve never busted or got a bag in their life is ridiculous. There should be a 100 point rating deduction for players that: 1. Bid nil and lead with an ace 2. Bid nil with the ace of spades or 3. Intentionally overbid by four or more books than you get. Salty players should be penalized.
If not for these two issues, it would be an easy five star rating. Not sure how much longer I will play this game without correcting them.Show lessJoshwins8
Developer Response
Thank you for your review. We are sorry for the trouble you've had with the ads. There should be a way to close each ad to quickly return to the game, and they shouldn't cause you to be booted. We've let our developers know about this, and please feel free to reach out if you have any further trouble by going to Help - Report a Problem. Please also let our moderator know about any inappropriate comments or intentional bad plays by tapping the globe icon during a game, and our moderator will investigate and take appropriate action.AI partner is infuriating!
The AI partner is more of a liability than it’s worth. As soon as a player breaks spades, the AI empties all the spades in its hand, wiping out any advantage you might have had on a broken suit. For example: I have the 10, 5, 6, and 3 of spades, and only one heart. Once I play the heart, and break spades, instead of feeding out hearts to take advantage of it, my “partner” will start throwing all its high spades, wiping me out, and often losing itself by playing a king before the ace has been revealed. In a normal game, I might be able to pick up a couple of tricks before the other players break. One time, this exact scenario happened and I assumed the AI had also run out of the suit. Nope. Once all the spades were exhausted, out pops a 5 of hearts. The opposing AIs seem to understand this premise just fine. I’ve learned to cut my bid as a result. The AI is also streaky in its bidding, going through stretches where it will do things like bid 3 or 4 and get zero, with nothing in its hand to justify the bid. Other times it will rake in hand bags in bunches. Restarting the app is the quickest way to get it back on track.Show lessnotsoimpressedagain
Developer Response
Thank you for your review. We are sorry to see that your experience with the AI players hasn't been a good one. They work by calculating complex probabilities about what move is best in any situation. There is always room for improvement, and our developers are always working on tweaking their performance to make them better. We really appreciate you sharing this insight with us, and we will forward your feedback to our developers.Solid but some glitches are inexcusable
I have gotten used to the way the computer parter plays regular hands. Not how I would, but I accept that a computer might not see the game as me.
But some of the way it plays when I have bid nil is inexcusable. When cutting a suit, it inexplicably cuts with its highest or 2nd highest spade, and no human would do something that dumb. That should be an easy fix. If I bid nil, cutting a different suit with the lowest spade is a no brainer. I cannot stress how many times I have lost because the computer partner has wasted a King of Spades cutting hearts and now can’t cover my highest spade because it only has a low spade.
Another glitch is that when the computer partner bids nil, if it goes too long, it will randomly throw out a spade and cut a suit for no reason. It will have other non spades that it could have played instead but for some odd reason, it decides to play a spade and ends up taking a book. Maybe the algorithm says it’s likely I can cover, but that is not always the case and there’s NO REASON to gamble playing a spade when you bid a nil hand, unless you have no choice. To be fair, I have won many games because the computer opponent sometimes does this. But this glitch should be fixed.Show lessHill3000
Developer Response
Thank you for providing your review. We are sorry to see that you've experienced this. Our developers are always looking to improve the game experience for our players, and we really appreciate you sharing this insight. The performance of the game is a priority for us and something we will continue to optimize.Online Rankings
How are the rankings determined for ranked matches? I don’t agree with the fact that you’re partner may not be good and there’s no way to compensate that in the rankings when you lose. Sometimes you’re partner can play worse and lose less points then you. I don’t agree with that either. I also hate how you’ll lose 10 points sometimes as oppose to 7 where’s it’s no consistency, it’s completely random. In addition, there’s games where the opposing team is able to bid back to back nils and sometimes there’s no way to stop it and it’s an easy win with easy rank points. Can someone please explain how the rankings work to me?Show lessbhamm_13
