On Line Players
Very good app. However too many sore losers that deliberately spoil the game for others. Really! They need to be banned for long periods of time. Take a chill pill.
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.
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Response from developer
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.
Ads have ruined this game
I had really been enjoying this game. Played it daily. Recently the length of the ads has stopped the enjoyment. 1 particular ad is so long that I get booted from the game I’m in for inactivity the ad never displays the exit x to get back to the game. It’s happened so many times now I’ve decided to quit playing the game
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Can you turn off the ads?
Love this game but hate the ads. Is there an ads free option?
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.
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.
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Response from developer
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.
Spades
Play it all the time
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?
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Needs improvement
I’ve been playing spades for years with actual people and love the game, so I saw this and downloaded it. At first playing it seems pretty good. But the more I’ve played the more I see huge flaws. For example just as others have stated going nil with low cards my partner will throw a lower card than me in a suit causing me to take a book; then the next hand throw an ace or king.
The opposing team somehow “instinctively” knows their partner is either out of a certain suit, has the next highest card in a suit or the highest spade and will throw accordingly. If it were humans I’d cause them of cheating or being psychic.
Out of 20 games - not hands, games- I might win one. I play at hard level but it doesn’t matter which level you play at the ai still plays the same. Very frustrating.
Developers need to look at this and make better ai response.
The opposing team somehow “instinctively” knows their partner is either out of a certain suit, has the next highest card in a suit or the highest spade and will throw accordingly. If it were humans I’d cause them of cheating or being psychic.
Out of 20 games - not hands, games- I might win one. I play at hard level but it doesn’t matter which level you play at the ai still plays the same. Very frustrating.
Developers need to look at this and make better ai response.
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Used to be a good app
This is no longer the top Spades app for a reason. It let’s literally anyone join “the round table” competitive table, including completely incompetent, zero common sense having, players who completely waste everyone’s time who legitimately enjoy playing this game. There is zero chance these morons have a career win percentage higher than 20%. So when you tell the person they play like an amateur, they repot you and the app suspends your chat privileges indefinitely instead of doing anything about players who intentionally tag bags or go nil with King and Queen of spades. Their AI isn’t much better. Bids 1 with two aces and a King. There’s never any lag, it boots players who take too long, but it’s very frustrating dealing with players who don’t have an ounce of common sense at the most competitive table and the app refuses to do anything about it.
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Censorship
Sick and tired of being penalised every time I use a harsh word on chat when others are constantly criticising you and using much more graphic language. I’m tired of being treated like a preschooler.
