Blackbird!

CHOOSE HOW WELL THE COMPUTER PLAYS • Pick Easy, Medium or Hard for your opponents, and set your partner's level on its own, in Settings. • Hard is new: it thinks through many ways the hidden cards could lie before it bids or plays. • Easy makes the kinds of mistakes a beginner would. • Each computer's level shows as dots under its name at the table and on the scorecard. • Blackbird may suggest a harder or easier level depending on how your games go. If you turn a suggestion down, it won't offer that level again. SMARTER COMPUTER PLAYERS • The computer bids more realistically. It goes higher with strong hands, competes for the bid near the end of a game, pushes opponents' bids up, and plays it safe when it would win the game on defense. • It adjusts its bidding to the rules you play with, such as keeping the nest or bonuses for taking every trick. • It picks trump by how many cards it holds in each suit, and discards and plays its cards better. NEW ACHIEVEMENTS • Beat Easy, Medium and Hard opponents, win 10 games against Hard, and beat Hard with an Easy partner. YOUR STATS • Your record for the rules you're playing (win percentage, current streak and longest streak) now appears beside the scorecard. • Your stats are now kept for each level. Your stats from before this update count as Medium. MORE CONTROL • Don't want the point values on the cards? Turn off "Show points on cards" in Settings. • The fastest game speed is a little faster. • Sharper card and table art on iPhone. FIXES • A saved game now picks up where you left off after the app was closed. • When you resumed a saved game, computer players could learn the nest's cards even under rules that keep the nest hidden. They no longer see them. • The all-points bonus is now added on top of other bonuses instead of replacing them.