Sheepshead vs Granny Hand

Play Sheepshead at any time. Sheepshead is a trick-taking card game. This is a single player version with computer controlled opponents. Sheepshead is played with 7-8-9-10-J-Q-K-A in four suits, for a total of 32 cards *** Game Features *** * Supports five handed, four handed, and three handed play modes * Tournaments: The player with the highest score will be delared the winner after ten hands of Sheepshead have been played. * Partner variants of: - Called Ace partner (allows calling of unknown, 10's , or going alone) - Jack of Diamonds - Call up next Jack is enabled by default, this can be disabled in the options menu. In three handed and four handed play the picker does not have a partner. *Leasters: Enable in options menu. If leaster is not enabled and picking is passed by all players, the dealer will pick. * Scoring: Can either be 'Double on the bump' (default) or 'Single on the bump'. * Knocking: Also called rapping or cracking. This can be enabled in the options menu. * Statistics: Keeps track of your play statistics, such as games won, tricks taken, times picked, etc. * GameCenter integration: - Leaderboards: 'High Score' and 'High Tournament Score' - Achievements based on game score and tricks taken * Large Print Cards, if those small cards are just too hard to see! An overview of Sheepshead rules can be found in the support page. ************************************** Double tapping to play a card is supported (it must be enabled in the options menu). If enabled, tapping a card once will select it, and tapping it a second time will play it. This will allow you to change selected cards if you accidentally select the wrong card! Simply tap the correct card, and the first card will be unselected. Tap the second card again to confirm playing it. **************************************

Granny Hand is four-handed Sheepshead with the 24-card deck: queens, jacks, aces, tens, kings, and nines. The black queens are partners. Call an ace when you need help, go it alone when you don’t. It’s the version played at family holidays for decades, built by someone who couldn’t find an app that played it this way. PLAY • Three computer opponents with eight distinct personas, from Rookie to Gambler to Team Player. Set each seat yourself, or let the table reshuffle the seating. • Opponents that reason about partnerships: as the cards fall, each computer player tracks who is likely on which side and plays its seat accordingly. • Called ace, play alone, call it off, doubles after a 60–60 tie, and an optional house rule that forces a call-off with five or six trump. • A live score bar and a trick-by-trick history grid during the hand. Both can be switched off. LEARN • A guided tutorial in three lessons: reading your hand and picking, winning tricks and schmearing, the called ace and identifying teams. • Table talk: after a hand, a player at the table points out your costliest plays, with the numbers to back it up. On devices with Apple Intelligence the remark is phrased by the on-device model; otherwise it uses built-in wording. Either way it only ever comments on what the hand actually shows. REMEMBER • Every hand is recorded: who picked, what was called, and every card in the order it was played. Star the decks worth keeping, and share any deal as a challenge link so someone else can play the same cards and compare results with yours. • Player statistics with sparklines for stakes and final scores, win rates, and breakdowns by role, for you and, with the Player Stats purchase, for each computer player. • Game Center leaderboards for total wins, total games, win rate, and win rate when playing alone, plus dozens of achievements for the hands worth bragging about, like being dealt a granny hand. • Your history syncs through iCloud, so it follows you between devices. You can clear it any time. MAKE IT YOURS • Five table colors, four card backs, and an optional four-color deck. • Sort your hand by power or by point value. Choose which side the table sits on in landscape. • Designed for iPhone and iPad, with a layout for each. Free for your first week, then five decks a day. A one-time Unlimited Play purchase removes the daily limit and unlocks deck replay; Player Stats unlocks statistics for the computer players. No ads. Your game data lives in your own iCloud account and Game Center, nowhere else.