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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.

This app is great for time wasting. It’s smooth and the ai gameplay is good. Multiplayer has a few issues for me that keep it from being a 5 star game. Each player has a certain amount of time to make a play before they can be kicked. It is WAY too much time. I haven’t timed it yet, but it feels like an eternity. It’s infuriating because people will intentionally wait until the last possible second, then make a play to stay in the game. They will do this EVERY TURN. The other thing I’ve noticed is that I’m convinced somehow that players can cheat and know your hand. Case in point, just played a game where my partner and I both had lay down loner hands at different points in the game, but the opponent knew it and ordered up trump to keep us from getting the 4 point loners. How would someone know that intentionally get euchered is the best possible outcome of a hand for them? Twice in the same game? I don’t think so.

I’ve played this game for years now solely against the AI, and while I’ve enjoyed *mostly* enjoyed it it’s only because my card luck is notoriously bad. I’m also a bridge player and I’ve had a hand named after me - one with nothing higher than a nine - because I get it so often. The deals in this game, as others have rightly noted, are not random. Your AI opponents uncannily have exactly the cards they need to set you, or exactly what they need to make two points repeatedly, while you constantly hold four-suited worthless hands. When you do get a monster the up card is, of course, off color, or your partner orders it up on a wing and a prayer and goes set, no matter if you set him on the “conservative” setting or “swing from the rafters” lol. I’ve played enough cards in my well more than half-a-century of games to know what’s chance and what’s design - this game is fixed. Too bad, it’s the best of a very mediocre lot of euchre offerings out there. Make it better folks. This is a good start.

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!

Sure, the gameplay is only average. AI players (and developers) have no sense of Hoyle when it comes to the game. And aggressive settings just increase the odds that your hands will be terrible. However, when I started playing this game years ago, the ads were only in between games. About last year, there started to be a mid-game break for an ad and that was tolerable because most of the time they lasted 15 seconds or less. However, since 2021 began, the ads are happening at least twice per game and I’ve even had 4 ads during the same game. To make it worse, they’re mostly 30 seconds long now with no way to close them out early. I get that the developers are trying o make money, but you don’t do that by frustrating the players to the point that they go looking for another way to play and/or delete the app altogether. Personally, I’m at the trial stage with other Euchre apps.

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.

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.

Edited: I defended this program a few years ago. Unfortunately now they force a 35 second ad halfway through the game that you have to stop the game and twiddle your thumbs while it plays out. It went from a game I enjoyed to kill some time with to a game I don’t want to play because of the ads. Not going to pay to avoid them either. Greed appears to have taken over for the developer. Old review: I have been playing this game for a long time. When the full screen popups started I contacted the authors support site and within 2 hours they had contacted me back advising that they had blocked the advertising network that was shoving out the full size screen ads and that they are in the process of changing their ad provider to eliminate that kind of stuff from happening again. You get more done by contacting support than just writing a bad review. This game is an excellent basic version of euchre. Yes, the AI does make some interesting moves like going alone with hardly anything, but it's not like it happens all the time. I would like to see some additional switches like STD or partners best but compared to other euchre games I have downloaded this one is solid and worth your time, either the free version or the paid version.

So, I probably use this app every single day. I love the layout of this app, and it is so addicting. The layout is so simple and easy to work. The app is fast and is doesn’t glitch often at all. I love all the different settings you can choose for your type of game. I don’t know 100% if it’s this app I love because I am just a little bias because I just love euchre, but lately I’ve been upset with this app. And the advertisements are why. I HATE HOW MANY ADVERTISEMENTS SHOW UP. Literally if your in a single player game (yourself against computers), there is a REQUIRED VIDEO 5-10 second advertisement each time your score or your opponents score is around 5-7 points, and after every game is over, THERE IS ANOTHER REQUIRED AD. It is so irritating. This is the same thing that happens for multiply player too. I play at least once a day when I’m relaxing or taking a break, and I just can’t stand the advertisements. I just went to check how much it would be to pay for the app without the advertisements and it was $20!!!!! That is WAY TOO COSTLY TO PAY FOR AN APP WITHOUT ADS! I was very upset, and so now I am looking into other apps that may have cheaper options for opting out of euchre without advertisements....

I am an avid Euchre player, and I have played and won countless tournaments. Unfortunately the AI in this game is completely inconsistent, if my partner was willing to consistently order trump with not enough cards to support two tricks, I’d find a new partner. I have played with my AI partner in all aspects from conservative to aggressive and the tendencies are still the same... bad choices. (Teach them how to throw off, or lead out better). I also have observed on multiple occasions, AI opponents seemingly know the hand of their teammate, to order trump without having a high trump and observing the opposite player pick up four of five tricks, consistently, would get the AI team eliminated from any tournament for cheating. Programming needs to be rethought, this game is not a game of chance... just circumstance and errored programming Fix these issue and this would be a good app, until then I’ll look for a better, and more fair option. I don’t like to be cheated.

I’ve played so much euchre in my lifetime. I grew up in a bar. My grandparents owned it and we had euchre tournaments regularly. This is the card game I love. This app - sheesh. Multiplayer isn’t bad. It could certainly use some improvements such as better quick phrases, an improved community system where one can friend another player without giving out personal information such as phone numbers and emails. The core of the game is there though. It’s kind of hard to screw that part up unless there’s an AI in the mix. Which brings me to the crux of my review. If, like me, you just want to squeeze in a few hands between jobs or on a break and don’t have time to commit to a whole game, you’re in for a bad ride. I’ll use the example that sparked me to write this review. I had an actual loner - 4 trump, both bars and an off ace. My partner (AI) was the dealer and picked up another suite alone AND GOT EUCHRED WITH NO BARS. here’s the kicker - it was 8-9 and we lost. This isn’t the kind of decision an actual player, with minimal experience, would make. This is pretty routine behavior for the AI. It will order you a trump and has 2 in its hand and is 3 suited with no bars. The AI logic needs a drastic overhaul. If you’re not into “shut up and play” this app might not be for you. It’s hard to interface with others and the AI is brutal. Good luck. Hopefully someone writes a better app soon.

Read Flyinjeep’s review! It’s the same way for me! Don’t understand why he gave it a “5 star” rating though? I consider myself as good a euchre player as you will find as I have the reputation and paid my way through college playing it, including $100/game, $50/set! But as Flyinjeep said, the deals cannot be random as I have played days with 4 suited hands every deal! I’ve never dealt that many bad hands in my life! Try stopping a loner or setting someone with hands like that! Also, I have told the developers that in the single game format, the players are the the stupidest players in the world and no one would learn how to play the game correctly from them! I told them they should develop their game from the book of Hoyle which explains the basics of euchre! I have a partner in singles called Shark who is everything but! He will pass almost all the time, leads Aces when he has both Jacks in trump, get set because he gets his Aces trumped (It’s like playing 3 against 1), will not lead trump for you when you make trump, even though he has even the right bower, makes trump when he shouldn’t and doesn’t when he should! The other players are just as stupid! Please, please redevelop you’re app to play sensibly for everybody’s sake! You have the resources to do this, use them!!!

I really like this game. Most things about it are great. However, the shuffle is really lacking in my opinion. I have gotten hands of three to four 9’s and 10’s way more than normal odds would allow. I mean 3-4 hands straight of 3 or more 9’s and 10’s. It takes the fun out of the game. In addition, the AI stinks. It will allow your partner or opponent to call a loner when they don’t have a single bower in their hand. General card play is suspect too. If you’re going to make us sit through an ad every 2-3 hands, fix it! Edit after original review. More hands of 3 or more 9’s and 10’s. In one game five hands in a row. Do the developers even read these reviews? Fix the game developers or I’ll find something else to do than sit through your ridiculous ads. Four nines and tens in the latest hand… fix it… Multiple hands of 3-4 9’s and 10’s in a row. Multiple reviews complaining. Not a peep from developers on fixing it other than the claim their deals are random. That is pure bull. I’m not willing to spend a dime on this game until they face reality and fix it.

Just played a rated game where my partner left before the first hand was even dealt. I decided to stick it out and try it with AI. Things were going okay at first but AI kept making all the calls, not giving me a chance to really play. When I could call trump, we got the euchre or the point. So it’s not like I was making bad calls. AI made a bad call at the end which got us euchred and cost us the game. And I was docked -10 points!!! That’s the most I’ve ever been docked in a rated game! While the teammate who abandoned me first round lost 9!! So I was punished more for a bad AI and a crappy partner?? Developers need to fix the rated game play because scoring doesn’t make sense and the game is clearly rigged. Also I’m pretty sure my last review was deleted. I can’t find it and I had posted it only a week ago. It should be easy to find. I’m losing all respect for this app and the developers ignoring bad reviews won’t help with any sort of progress or trust in this game. I’m fed up and it’s reasonable to be so.