Pinochle Gold Reviews

Biding problems

Poor playing

Computer partner continuously overbids hands, makes meld bids without enough points and plays hands with no regard to what I have. Ignores meld bids

This is the best Pinochle app I've found out there • At least the options allow me to play the game that I wanted from all the other apps I bought • It's SO CLOSE to being really great but for an app of this $$$ price I would expect full Game Center integration with career Win/Loss records, Achievements, online play with friends etc • PLEASE, PLEASE hook us Pinochle Gold purchasers up!!

Pinochle gold

Ed Gisin

I have been playing double pinochle with no passing cards. My partner consistently overbids and we do not make the bid. My partner gives a meld bid of 20 and only has 8 to 10 points in meld In double deck the meld bid begins with 20. Almost every hand will have 8 to 10 points East and west have such goods hands each time that it is as if they were allowed to pick their cards. When I lead a trump my partner does not play the ace and allows the opponent to win that round. This also allows the opponent to play the aces so when it is my turn to play aces they usually are trumped. When I bid and east and west pass, my partner overbids and it escalates. When I eventually pass, we lose the round.

Ok, but more flaws after upgrade.

Solange59

It's pretty good. There are a couple of flaws, like when I have passed four Aces, my partner will pass back one of the aces. Same happened when I sent over queens, so there were eight queens and they passed one back. Today I passed over double pinochle and they did not have a straight, and they passed one of the jacks back? Or I will call a suit, and they will keep four aces leaving me without a full straight. Much worse after the upgrade.

None

Boompa53

Partner sends crazy passed cards, make no sense. He held onto an ace, queen and jack of clubs, passed me hearts and spades. The clubs would have given me a double run and a thousand aces. Stupid.

Fun but need one fix

Kemsphone

I can play this all day. It's fun. But you should be able to touch a cad and see it's the wrong one and be able to drag it off screen before it's played to change cards. Sometimes you can touch the wrong card before it plays but there is nothing you can do about it and can cost you the whole hand. The cards are small so you should have a way of changing a misclick.

keeping meld

poppacycle

Whoever wrote this never played serious cards or doesn't know how to meld!!!!! I have seen my partner have double queens and throw it away to keep jacks round, same with double kings and once had double jacks and dbl pinochle and threw a Q of spades away to keep an odd suit marriage. Another thing is my partner may have 3 aces of a suit and I meld aces round and instead of leading to me after her leads are spent she leads an other suit or I show the 4th ace my partners trump, she has the other three and would lead their 3 aces and take my ace instead of leading to me. I bought this thinking I would get better and more play, I was wrong. Should this read beginners Pinochle?

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Carl the 5 th

There is a serious strategic flaw in the program. If the bid winner calls spades or diamonds as trump, his partner should always pass the queens of spades and jacks of diamonds that he has. Your program will often have the partner keep a queen of spades or jack of diamonds to complete their 60 queens or 40 jacks. That is bad playing, since the queen of diamonds or jack of diamonds in the bidder's hand will most often result in higher points. This program still has the same flaw. No doubt the programmer has never actually played pinochle with real people. There are other flaws as well.

Not great

Gasfireplace

This game Is okay as far as it goes. The AI is pretty pathetic, though, and will frustrate folks who know how to play pinochle. My partner is extremely reluctant to give up a pointer to me but loves giving them to the other team (I'm talking throwing a 9 to my Ace when it has a King, but playing a 10 to opponent's Ace when it has a 9). My partner also is terrible at bidding (bids me up to high 30s with nothing in hand), routinely breaks up double pinochle (passes parts even when he/she bid in Diamonds or Spades), and generally passes garbage even when it has parts of a family. It's a bit like playing with my sister-in-law's mentally handicapped friend from Nevada. Or like playing with a seven-year-old.

Frustrated

Bruce Garrison

I question how the shuffle is done. Opponents always have quality hands. This is not the reality of the game for me. Losing interest rapidly.

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