Euchre 3D

I see a lot of reviews complaining that the game is rigged against you. All I can say is that I am a mediocre player in real life and have a 55% win rate which is probably about right. While I seem to get more variability in hands in real life (some lay down loners now and then along with some dismal hands as well) this does not feel like a set up to me. I think the app is great for someone who just learned or is just learning. A couple of suggestions - 1) have an option to show what was buried after the hand, I find that entertaining sometimes in real life. And so you know if you miscounted Trump or not. 2) have a lay down option when the hand is over but hasn't played out. For example, you need the last 2tricks and are sitting there with both bowers. Even with auto-play selected you need to play the tricks out. This is clearly a nit-pick. 3) have an option to let you renege instead of always limiting your selection to not do so. Better practice for real life. 4) have a suggestion button or setting to help new players. This is risky seeing how the AI seems to play sometimes, but could be helpful.

I love playing Euchre with friends. It is the ONLY card game I like to play. Sadly, Euchre seems to be a regional game so finding folks who know HOW to play can be difficult. I am a VERY good player & partner. Imagine my joy when I found the free version in the App Store. The game looked good & moves pretty well. I sometimes wondered about the way the game was programmed to play in a few Instances, but generally it was a decent game. It was good enough so that when I found out the same folks made a “pay for it” version of the same game, I (virtually) plunked down my $4.99 and began to play. SADLY, the new, “paid” version is quite a disappointment. My AI partner, whom I have (non) affectionately named “Bonehead” has improved his boneheaded ways ... somewhat ... but my big issue is that it would seem that except for the occasional good hand, I now seem to only get Queens, tens, and nines in the hand I’m dealt. To make matters worse, my Qs, 10s, and 9s seldom include trump! The opponents nearly always make their loans on improbable (or “lucky”) hands, while I regularly fail to make my loans. I can nearly ALWAYS count on my opponent to my left having the Ace to my off suit. “Bonehead” has better luck with his loans than I, (for some odd reason) so there is one slight improvement from the free vs. paid version of this Euchre online game. All in all, I only continue to play this “pay-to-play” version BECAUSE I paid for it!

One of my main issues are the available comments in rated play. Players, bc they are impatient humans, will often use the “let’s go” comment excessively. It doesn’t even happen to me that often, but I get irritated with it being used all the time. Don’t have it as an option. It’s unnecessary and encourages bad behavior. The game reminds you if it’s your turn and you haven’t laid a card. After that players can boot you from the game. That’s sufficient. Don’t allow jerks who take just as much time to make a play but aren’t self aware to harass other players. Also, I’ve left a couple of games due to inappropriate ongoing sexual comments - I shouldn’t be penalized for that as a warning came up about consequences for leaving the game. Why? It wasn’t even a rated game. This game would be also be better with more options for different types of play like No Trump, Bottoms, etc.

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The amount of times your opponent is short suited to your off suit ace is incredible. I play pretty aggressively in real life so I can handle being set every now and again, but the cards are clearly rigged in favor of you losing. I think the computers are programmed to play their cards in the right order, I prefer to lead my power when I have it and they prefer to lead their off suit, but I can see both sides of the strategy. However, the computer is very regularly shorted and can trump over tricks that are regularly good when i play in real life. Whereas the reverse is almost never true. If the opponent leads an off suit ace theres about a 95% chance I have that suit and can’t trump in. I feel like that happens 3-4 times a game in real like and it happens almost every time I lead an ace in this game. Eventually it becomes so frustrating you just give up playing. Again, something I’ve never done or will ever do in real life.

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The graphics are great and the gameplay is smooth, but the cards are anything but random. If you’ve played Euchre with real people who actually know what they’re doing, you’ll be able to feel it when you play. Nobody’s opponents always turn up exactly what they need to beat you all the time. I have no problem losing a hand or a game or ten games, but I do have a problem with the logic of the computers. The opponent AI’s table talk like their lips are made of said table. Your partner is dim-witted at best. If you’re a beginner looking to learn the rules and basic strategy, this is a phenomenal app that will suit your purposes marvelously. If you’re a serious player looking for a real game, find some friends, invite them over, pour a Tom Collins, and enjoy the cards that way. Have a drink and wait for someone to make a Euchre app that relies on a self-reinforcement learning algorithm to run the AI’s instead of whatever they run on now.