# Sheepshead Pro — user reviews > 56 indexed App Store user reviews of Sheepshead Pro by Daniel Schleef, rated 3.50/5 from 114 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sheepshead-pro/id859700350/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sheepshead-pro/id859700350.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 26 · 4★ 39 · 3★ 25 · 2★ 12 · 1★ 12 ## What do users think of Sheepshead Pro? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Fun game to play - 👍 Realistic Wisconsin sheepshead - 👍 Good for practice - 👍 Best of the sheepshead games - 👍 Great app for a great game - 👍 Well made, clean look - 👍 Great way to play quick hands - 👍 Fun and sometimes funky **Cons** - 😞 Infuriating flaws - 😞 Simulated players don't know how to play - 😞 Partner plays poorly - 😞 AI makes unrealistic plays - 😞 Computer players are awful - 😞 Frustrating version of sheepshead - 😞 AI logic needs work - 😞 Not realistic - 😞 Other players don't know game - 😞 Terrible computer logic - 😞 Bad AI strategy - 😞 Unplayable due to AI - 😞 Bad AI partner - 😞 Annoying AI - 😞 Stupid AI plays - 😞 Frustrating AI - 😞 Poor AI - 😞 Bad AI - 😞 Unrealistic plays by opponents - 😞 Computer players are weak - 😞 AI doesn't play by conventions - 😞 Computer has no common sense - 😞 Horrible computer players - 😞 AI plays poorly - 😞 AI doesn't know when to play counter trump - 😞 AI doesn't know strategy - 😞 AI plays wrong cards - 😞 AI plays stupid moves - 😞 AI plays poorly - 😞 AI plays badly - 😞 AI plays dumb **Commonly reported bugs** - Locks up and needs uninstalling - App freezes - Randomly crashing - Stops running on iPhone - Game freezes when playing leasters - App freeze after certain hands - Next hand does not deal out - Messes up statistics - Newest update has ruined the app - UI never picks leasters - Game freezes occasionally on Leasters - App freeze after certain hands especially leasters - Game is freezing up a lot - The app is freezing - After the end of the hand - the app shows me the blinds - and the next hand does not deal out. - Glitches and deals 10 cards - Pop ups keep coming constantly - Queen of clubs played by AI and buried in the blind in the same round - System glitches - Cannot get the game to start on iPhone 14 Pro Max **Most requested features** - Online multiplayer option - Ability to edit AI names - Option to call 'every trick' - Option to set default for when no one picks (leaster, doubler, redeal) - Rules section - Training cards with suggestions - Landscape mode option - Option to require a leaster if all pass - Option to de-select redeal and doubler - Option to call off the JD - Jack of diamonds only mode - Second real player using their own device - Computer count running total of points - Improve stats page to show total points and individual tricks ## Newest reviews (17 of 56) ### 3/5 — Fun but glitches *2024-04-02, version 1.0.14* A few bugs where the system glitches and deals 10 cards and pop ups keep coming constantly. Fun to play though! ### 2/5 — Frustrating Flaws *2023-06-27* The inability to turn off doublers breaks the game. The AI will inexplicably go for doublers and turn the game into a coin flip. The AI is also a terrible mauer which results in the player needing to wait for gramma hands ### 3/5 — Weird flaws after playing several games in a row *2022-08-28, version 1.0.14* I noticed a strange flaw that has happened more than once. After playing 3 or more consecutive games the queen of clubs has been played by the AI in a hand and in the same round also showed up as one of the cards buried by an AI in the blind. Impossible and aggravating. Its especially noticeable because this is the highest trump. It may be happening with cards too but that’s less obvious and I suspect if I played more I’d probably start spotting it. ### 4/5 — Passing *2022-05-17, version 1.0.14* Not enough bold pickers - way too many passes; otherwise, it’s pretty good ### 2/5 — What?!? *2022-03-17, version 1.0.14* I get that it’s not easy to make this game into an app. But why would you make it so that any player would bury Trump. So many times other players are burying a high Queen and a Jack. It’s pointless and it ruins the game. Makes this unplayable. ### 3/5 — Not a Wisconsin version *2021-08-13, version 1.0.14* I can’t believe that the partner plays trump (not the JD) in front of the picker! You’d be chastised for that move. It would be nice if the picker could call off the JD. ### 2/5 — Not realistic *2020-09-12, version 1.0.14* Only way to win this game is to have all four queens. Other players don’t know game. Through off wrong cards. Don’t push the picker. ### 4/5 — Needs Improvement *2020-02-17, version 1.0.14* Please work on coding so that when you want to pause or end the game it has a way to shut off the app. Currently I have to shut down my iPhone to get out of the game. Thanks ### 3/5 — Not human *2019-10-10, version 1.0.14* The game makes moves that a good human player would not. ### 3/5 — Getting disappointed!! *2019-09-18, version 1.0.14* I really enjoyed this game at first, but lately I’m frustrated. It was posted before that the computer doesn’t know when to play a counter trump verses it’s highest one as a partner. Also, after playing several games, I notice the fact that you have to re-deal a lot or the players elect to play a leister. ### 4/5 — Fun game, dumb AI *2019-08-31* It’s a fun game, but the AI doesn’t seem to play by a lot of the conventions you would think could be programmed in. Still, it’s the best of the sheepshead games out there. ### 3/5 — Does not play well. *2019-03-08, version 1.0.14* Can usually win vs. the AI players who don’t play well. However, sometimes your partner(s) apparently play against you and the deals don’t appear random. * There should be an option to require a leaster if all players pass. Allowing cumulative doublers is ridiculous. The whole match can be decided my ONE hand that is 16x or 32x. * If passed out & opponent calls a DOUBLER, usually, like 80%-90% of the time, your next hand is weak with ONE or TWO trumps (5 handed), someone picks, gets a good partner, and you’re lucky to get schneider. * In Jack partner game, partner should trump with the called partner card on first trick if it’s a legal play and picker hasn’t yet played. This is elementary. * Picker sometimes needlessly plays A or 10 of diamonds when partner leads trumps and gives unnecessary points to picker. * Co-defenders may not trump if legal AFTER picker has played Ace of fail suit or followed suit to partner’s Ace even if they have 2 or 3 trumps. * AI players don’t seem to understand leasters. However, it’s amazing how often they ‘magically’ transfer the lead to AI player just before you putting you at disadvantage in 2nd seat. * AI players have been know to pass with both black queens and other trumps, sometimes even a jack! Heavy Mauer or AI player knows there are two small fail in the blind and/or weak partner. * AI player may pick weak and ‘magically’ partner has strength and wins 3 or 4 tricks. * Sometimes the picker is alone in Call Aces game, picker leads high trump, and another player unnecessarily shmears a fail 10 or A when out of trump and later plays a stone on another defender’s trick. This defies basic common sense. * The interface is locked in Portrait mode. I’ve an iPad Pro with keyboard attached and would like Landscape mode instead of having to view the screen sideways. ### 3/5 — Weak players *2018-01-30, version 1.0.14* The other players are weak. Allow me to de-select the redeal option and doubler option. Too much time is lost with these options. ### 3/5 — Needs some fixes *2017-09-10, version 1.0.14* I haven't been playing this game for very long, but there are 3 major things that I think need fixing. 1. There's no rules section. The way the app is set up, just assumes you already know the rules 2. When no one picks, you need to be able to preset either least, double or re-deal. 3. The training cards to to help you out with highlighted suggestions ### 4/5 — Good for practice *2017-08-10, version 1.0.14* The automatic players don't have all the forethought of human players but that's to be expected. I also don't like the way that when everyone passes, the dealer picks redeal , doubler, or leaster. There should be an option to set one of those three as the default when no one picks. Don't like that part at all. ### 2/5 — So sk *2017-05-04, version 1.0.14* Fun until it started randomly crashing. ### 2/5 — Stops running on iPhone *2017-04-26, version 1.0.14* Too bad because it is ok otherwise some very stupid players that make you think some decided to " let the children try". :/ ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Horrible, just horrible *2026-07-20, version 1.0.14* Other players don’t “know” how to play wisely. Partner won’t lead highest trump. Also, when it’s late in a game and one player’s score is +30, you and the dealer’s score is -22, the dealer will choose a leaster instead of doubler. Annoying. Fix this and maybe I’ll try it next year. For now, I’ll delete it and try another one. ### 1/5 — Sheepshead *2022-11-13, version 1.0.14* Can’t get the game to start on my new I phone 14 pro max ### 1/5 — How many 6-trump 120-pt hands in a game? 4! *2022-06-02, version 1.0.14* There is ZERO randomness in this game. It is statistically near-zero chance of having four queens and two jacks, much less multiple hands within a single game. Time to delete, such an utter waste. ### 1/5 — Not so smart *2019-09-03, version 1.0.14* Ive tried three different apps they all play stupid moves ### 1/5 — Terrible *2019-08-26, version 1.0.14* Very frustrating game to play. Don't waste your time. The computer has, of course, no common sense and will play the wrong card almost every single time. ### 1/5 — Horrible, just horrible *2019-08-17* Other players don’t “know” how to play wisely. Partner won’t lead highest trump. Also, when it’s late in a game and one player’s score is +30, you and the dealer’s score is -22, the dealer will choose a leaster instead of doubler. Annoying. Fix this and maybe I’ll try it next year. For now, I’ll delete it and try another one. ### 1/5 — Really? *2017-10-11, version 1.0.14* So everyone is complaining about the same thing and nothing has changed. It’s very frustrating when you play perfectly and your computer “partner” plays like an idiot. Put some thought into it ### 1/5 — Rev *2017-06-13, version 1.0.14* I don't know why the developer has not fixed the quirks. We have all paid for this game, and the playing is completely poor. Sometimes the partner even plays the called ace before the suit has been led, and other times, someone who is not the p smears instead of trumping when the picker has played. These could be fixed, easily. Has he been selling this and not improving it? That is poor business practice. ### 1/5 — BLATANT CHEATING *2016-05-22, version 1.0.14* 3-handed I led with Ace clubs, which the computer dropped Ace AND 10 hearts on the trick, THEN TOOK THE TRICK WITH THE OFF SUIT! Then the computer LED CLUBS, FOLLOWED CLUBS, AND TOOK THE NEXT TRICK IN THE SUIT I HAD JUST LED! ### 1/5 — Game freezes when playing leasters *2016-03-27, version 1.0.12* Game freezes when playing leasters, plus UI never picks leasters. Needs fixes to be able to play it. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Realistic Wisconsin sheepshead *2024-09-20, version 1.0.14* With this app it took me 2 weeks to really get a perfect understanding of the game. Now I play with real cards once a week. ### 5/5 — Online *2020-05-02, version 1.0.14* Make it so it’s an online version so you can play with friends online! ### 5/5 — Fun *2017-03-19, version 1.0.14* Great game ### 5/5 — Great! *2016-06-03, version 1.0.14* Great app for a great game! Best one I've found so far. From a Northern Wisconsin player... ### 5/5 — Great sheepshead *2016-04-08, version 1.0.12* Great version of the game. ### 5/5 — Great game with lots of additional options! *2016-02-28, version 1.0.12* Has five and three person, lots of rules for how you want to play to make it feel more like your house rules. ### 5/5 — Edit A.I. names please? *2015-12-23, version 1.0.10* Please update AI names to be edited BUT I Love love love I finally found a Sheeps app that is well made, has a clean look and really good A.I. I would love the ability to change the names of the characters though. Small gripe but it would go along way to get my friends from back home as players in my virtual game. :) ### 5/5 — Well done *2015-11-23, version 1.0.9* I played this card game with my friends and family growing up. We never played with "doubler". Also, we had the option to play a hand and call "every trick". That would be a good feature to add to the game. ### 4/5 — Fun, despite many flaws *2026-03-07, version 1.0.14* Enjoy, but prepare yourself for a couple infuriating flaws: 1. Way too many granny hands, pickers going alone, and getting dealt garbage and misdeals for 15 hands in a row. 2. Simulated players who don’t know how to schmear and who are happy to let the picker keep the lead. 3. If you’re NOT the picker, the partner seems to always have whichever big queens that the picker lacks, and the called suit always walks. 4. If you ARE the picker, the partner has bupkis and the called suit lead never walks, because Sally, who passed, is sitting on enough trump to nuke a hurricane. Other than those things, which will occasionally make you want to throw your phone into traffic, the game is lovely, and I cannot stop playing it. ### 4/5 — Locks up *2023-11-05, version 1.0.14* When asked "rate this game" and one option is "don't ask ever again" is like telling the sun not to shine. Because they will ask again.Best game available, but doesn't say a lot. Locks up and have to uninstall to be able to play resetting all stats... Would love to see what the hands are when everyone passes!!! So you can tell who Mauered --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-26.*