Pinochle Pro

How can an opponent bid 36, make 35, and still win? This has happened so many times. And your partner bidding against you and when you pass your partner passes. Also has happened so many times. I’ve deleted the app twice before and I’m done this time. I like the way this game plays, but I don’t like AI that cheats!

Over and over again my partner bids while having 2 or 3 meld and 4 cards of a suit to make trump, duh. Hand after hand, I get no aces or just one ace.

I bought this game about a week ago. Suddenly the game started quitting in the middle. Now it quits right after the bidding is finished . The players and the cards just disappear.

I agree with the other reviewer who said the bad reviews must have been from previous builds that have since been fixed. I’ve been playing the game with few glitches and no crashes. Both partner and opponent play seems to make “pinochle sense”, with no one making blatantly stupid plays (like throwing a second ace to give your partner a counter early in the hand). I’m curious about the Achievements, though: I’ve blown past 100 games, but somehow haven’t earned that badge yet. I’m upgrading to the ad-free version just to support the developer.

This game is a lot of fun. The lower ratings seem to be for earlier issues that the developer has since corrected. I like that the game automatically calculates the meld for you. Also you can see and change the players. In this version, the winner of the bid exchanges 4 cards with their partner which makes the game more interesting. There are ads, but they are not too annoying and there is an option to remove ads for $4.99. I am really enjoying this game.

I’ve played this game nearly 2700 times, so its safe to say I like it OK. However there is one major flaw in the bidding, and it has happened to me several times. I bid, my partner bids, it comes back to me and, though I like my hand, since my partner outbid me I assume he has a strong hand and thus pass, allowing him to carry us. Then, surprise, he passes on his next bid. Where I come from, even if he isn’t a real person, I ought to be able to assume he is going to carry on the bid, at least for a bit. After all, we want to force the other side to work for it and if we don’t win the bid, perhaps make them go set. This ought to be a relatively easy fix, and would improve the game. When my machine partner outbids me and I pass, he needs to bid at least 1-3 more times. You have to make a commitment to your partner when you outbid him, so that we increase the odds of winning the bid with the better of our two hands in control.

Hi, so your app is very accessible for the most part using the Voiceover screen reader. I'm totally blind, used to play pinochle with braille cards. There's just one problem. I can't tell what's trump. It's shown up a few times, but I've made bad passes when trying to pass cards to my partner. So maybe if there's something that says what trump is, that would be very helpful. Other than that, I can play the game because I can count cards in my head. Update: another big problem. I'm very confused. If someone plays, on my left, a Queen of Spades, and my partner (north), plays the Ace of Spades, East plays, say, Jack of Spades, and I play a King of Spades, that should give my partner and I 2 pointers. Instead, they seem to be going to the West-East partnership. That's not right! If North plays the Ace, then they get the trick. At least, that's how I was told. It seems that in this version, whoever plays the trump card first wins the trick. Was I told incorrectly or something?

Played this game for several months and it was fun. Lately tho, it is very frustrating when the game freezes, especially when you have a good hand. Am rapidly losing interest. Update: happy to report that, within an hour of my review, the developer responded. Yay! A fix for the freezing is in the works! Love the game and play many many games. Thanks for the positive response! The fix would definitely change my review to FIVE STARS!

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You for the recent updates, I just love this game!!!!!

I love playing this game as I relax in the evenings