Needs confirm settings
I’m enjoying it but it needs the ability to confirm a bid (or not) to handle misclicks
Disappointed
It does not work ! It stops in the middle of hand play !
Much too much adds
Much too much adds, sooooooo annoying
Worst bridge user interface ever
BBO has a quirky but usable interface, however, BBO Trainer doesn’t use the BBO interface! Instead, it appears to have ripped off the worst aspects of FunBridge. I am constantly mis-tapping cards to play (not only is there no “confirm” option like on BBO, but the cards pop up and down, sometimes apparently on their own, it’s both confusing and annoying), it’s very hard to select the intended suit if it’s doubleton, or singleton and you are on lead, and, when bidding, the bids are 2/3 obscured on an iPad (on the iPhone at least the whole bid is shown). Also, the app tries to make a big deal about streaks, but it’s unclear what the timeframe is for completing the 8 boards to keep the streak going. I have played the 8 boards every day for the past 6 weeks, usually in the morning, sometimes in the evening, and my highest streak is 12 days, despite the fact that I’ve always finished the 8th board well before midnight every day.
Another stupidly is the analysis it gives, I get advice like “at trick 1, you played the heart K, which seemed like a good choice in this situation. However, you could have take 1 extra trick if you had played one of these cards: heart K, heart Q …” listing all 13 cards in my hand. What kind of advice is that, listing the card I lead as a better alternative to the card I lead… also, it wants me to be psychic and drop singleton offside kings instead of finessing. Yes, sometimes the advice is good, for example, pointing out that I could have lead a known looser to endplay a defender, but because that analysis is double dummy, it isn’t always clear if it’s actually good advice, or just taking advantage of a lucky lie of the cards (like when it advises to play the A to drop a singleton K offside).
Rant over! I want to like this app, I really do, it has so much potential, but all the small annoyances frustrate me so much that I’m deleting it as soon as I post this review. I will reinstall it if they just fix the problems with selecting cards to play, and hopefully they address the myriad other annoyances.
Another stupidly is the analysis it gives, I get advice like “at trick 1, you played the heart K, which seemed like a good choice in this situation. However, you could have take 1 extra trick if you had played one of these cards: heart K, heart Q …” listing all 13 cards in my hand. What kind of advice is that, listing the card I lead as a better alternative to the card I lead… also, it wants me to be psychic and drop singleton offside kings instead of finessing. Yes, sometimes the advice is good, for example, pointing out that I could have lead a known looser to endplay a defender, but because that analysis is double dummy, it isn’t always clear if it’s actually good advice, or just taking advantage of a lucky lie of the cards (like when it advises to play the A to drop a singleton K offside).
Rant over! I want to like this app, I really do, it has so much potential, but all the small annoyances frustrate me so much that I’m deleting it as soon as I post this review. I will reinstall it if they just fix the problems with selecting cards to play, and hopefully they address the myriad other annoyances.
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Good but needs undo
Needs an undo button. Sometimes it plays a card when I just have my finger close to the screen that is not the one I was trying to play
