Bid Whist - Expert AI

Name: Bid Whist - Expert AI
Rating: 4.7 (3196 reviews)
Author: NeuralPlay, LLC

Custom Rules & Offline Play

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

3.2K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Card
Developer

NeuralPlay, LLC
Language

EN
English
Size

33.3
MB

Play offline with six AI levels and customizable rules. Suggested bids and plays help you learn, sharpen your strategy, and master Bid Whist. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or learning Bid Whist for the first time, Bid Whist – Expert AI is a great way to play, learn, and master this classic trick-taking card game. Learn smarter, play better, and master Bid Whist with powerful AI partners and opponents, plus in-depth analysis tools. Play anytime, even offline. Extensive customization options let you enjoy your favorite rules. CHALLENGING AND ENJOYABLE FOR ALL New to Bid Whist? Learn as you play with the NeuralPlay AI, which offers real-time suggestions to guide your moves. Build your skills hands-on, explore strategies, and master decision-making in a single-player experience that teaches you every step of the game. Already an expert? Challenge yourself against six levels of advanced AI opponents designed to test your skills, sharpen your strategy, and make every game exciting, competitive, and rewarding. KEY FEATURES Learn and Improve • AI guidance: Receive real-time insights whenever your plays differ from the AI’s choices. • Built-in card counter: Strengthen your counting and strategic decision-making. • Trick-by-trick review: Analyze every move in detail to sharpen your gameplay. • Replay hand: Review and replay a deal to practice and improve. Convenience and Control • Offline play: Enjoy the game anytime, even without an internet connection. • Undo: Quickly correct mistakes and refine your strategy. • Hints: Get helpful suggestions when you’re unsure of your next move. • Claim remaining tricks: End the hand early when your cards are unbeatable. • Skip hand: Move past hands you’d rather not play. Progression and Customization • Six AI levels: From beginner-friendly to expert-challenging. • Detailed statistics: Track your performance and progress. • Customization: Personalize the look with color themes and card decks. RULE CUSTOMIZATIONS Explore a wide variety of ways to play with customizable rule options, including: • Kitty size: Choose 6, 5, 4, or no kitty cards. • Sport kitty: Choose who sees the kitty — everyone, only the declarer, or all players when a suit is selected as trump. • High/low bid ranking: Choose whether high and low bids are equal, or let low bids outrank high bids. • Minimum bid: Set the minimum bid between 1 and 4. • Level-only bidding: After winning the bid, the declarer chooses the trump and direction (High, Low — Aces Good, or Low — Aces Bad). • Notrump scoring: Decide whether notrump contracts score double. • Boston scoring: Enable or disable double points for Boston bids. • Overtrick scoring: Choose whether overtricks score points. • Joker rules (notrump): Control how jokers are played in notrump contracts (e.g., discard anytime when void, must discard immediately when void, or must place in/exchange with the kitty). • Two of Spades: Option to make the Two of Spades the high trump. • Game-over condition: Finish by total points or by number of hands. DOWNLOAD TODAY Play, learn, and master Bid Whist - Expert AI. Enjoy a single-player Bid Whist experience designed for practice, strategy, or casual play. Whether you want to improve your skills or relax with an offline card game, play your way with a smart AI partner and opponents, customizable rules, and a fresh challenge every game.

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

3.2K Ratings

Partner sabotages game..still
09/26/2024

Skiddit
[[ Looking for the setting where my partner doesn't play against me and give away books. That type of behavior gets you kicked from the "grown folks" card table. Deleting the app now ]]Above is my review from at least 2 years ago. The Ai partner cuts you out of books they can lay off on. And personally underplays (not play the winning card) on books they should go get. But the opponent NEVER has these clashes. Idky the partner can't play with the same level of competence as the Ai on the other team. Or if they just ALWAYS play to win the book. At least I can adjust to that. But I have to show the cards every hand of play just to make sure my partner is playing correctly. And they don't.Only giving two stars bc 1 star reviews are not taken seriously

Developer Response
Thank you for your review. We are working on improvements.
Partner sabotages game..still
09/26/2024

Skiddit

[[ Looking for the setting where my partner doesn't play against me and give away books. That type of behavior gets you kicked from the "grown folks" card table. Deleting the app now ]]Above is my review from at least 2 years ago. The Ai partner cuts you out of books they can lay off on. And personally underplays (not play the winning card) on books they should go get. But the opponent NEVER has these clashes. Idky the partner can't play with the same level of competence as the Ai on the other team. Or if they just ALWAYS play to win the book. At least I can adjust to that. But I have to show the cards every hand of play just to make sure my partner is playing correctly. And they don't.Only giving two stars bc 1 star reviews are not taken seriously
Developer Response 01/31/2023
Thank you for your review. We are working on improvements.
AI needs improving
05/14/2022

ShellySHELL1030
I enjoy this app! HOWEVER, the AI needs to be updated. Example…when winning a bid, your partner(computer) should always play their best cards(Aces in other suits, etc), before giving you back the lead. In NO Trumps, you NEVER play the tops off a suit(aces)unless you can control the suit. Meaning, Don’t lead with ace if you don’t have king, queen or jack. Play a low card, and maybe partner has king, queen etc. Also, If I win the bid, and my partner has no more trump cards, HIS VERY NEXT play should ALWAYS be a weak card in his strong suit. This is strategy to let me know he may have an ace in that suit. I hope this makes sense, coming from someone who has been playing bid whist his whole life. Which I learned from my grandfather’s generation, who played in bid whist card clubs practically, his whole life. 😉

Developer Response
Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Bid Whist. Thank you for your review. And thank you for the helpful comments. We are continuing to make improvements to the AI. The AI on level 3, uses rules and should better lead back winners as you describe.The AI on levels 4+ uses a Monte Carlo simulation to determine the best plays. We find this AI plays better overall than the rules we have on level 3. However, we have found some odd plays where it did not lead back correctly.In version 2.70, we have made adjustments to make the AI on levels 4+ lead back winners better.
AI needs improving
05/14/2022

ShellySHELL1030

I enjoy this app! HOWEVER, the AI needs to be updated. Example…when winning a bid, your partner(computer) should always play their best cards(Aces in other suits, etc), before giving you back the lead. In NO Trumps, you NEVER play the tops off a suit(aces)unless you can control the suit. Meaning, Don’t lead with ace if you don’t have king, queen or jack. Play a low card, and maybe partner has king, queen etc. Also, If I win the bid, and my partner has no more trump cards, HIS VERY NEXT play should ALWAYS be a weak card in his strong suit. This is strategy to let me know he may have an ace in that suit. I hope this makes sense, coming from someone who has been playing bid whist his whole life. Which I learned from my grandfather’s generation, who played in bid whist card clubs practically, his whole life. 😉
Developer Response 09/23/2022
Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Bid Whist. Thank you for your review. And thank you for the helpful comments. We are continuing to make improvements to the AI. The AI on level 3, uses rules and should better lead back winners as you describe.The AI on levels 4+ uses a Monte Carlo simulation to determine the best plays. We find this AI plays better overall than the rules we have on level 3. However, we have found some odd plays where it did not lead back correctly.In version 2.70, we have made adjustments to make the AI on levels 4+ lead back winners better.
Adjustments
Jul 11

Player/extraordinaire
It could use a little upgrade for example my partner when I had a bid my partner plays the Trump back to me. Well, we only ones who have Trump therefore leaving me vulnerable to the opponent turning a book which he could’ve cut if he had held onto the Trump. In other words, we should have them in a crossfire. He shouldn’t push trumps back on when we’re the only ones who have trumps and my number two flex,in a no Trump, even though he might have a winner, he needs to get out of my way because he might not have another winning card in his hand and then he let me vulnerable to the other players,In other words, if he doesn’t have a couple of one in cards to get back to me or if he’s not able to get back to me, he should get out of my way. Let me run the boy.

Developer Response
Excellent point. We have not seen this issue of the AI partner leading back trumps when only partner has trumps. We will look for this and work on a fix. Note, level 3 has a rule-based AI it should count well and play pretty well like we humans do. Levels 4+ use an advanced Monte Carlo Simulation method. They make some errors that we humans would not make but play better than level 3 overall. Thank you for your review.
Adjustments
Jul 11

Player/extraordinaire

It could use a little upgrade for example my partner when I had a bid my partner plays the Trump back to me. Well, we only ones who have Trump therefore leaving me vulnerable to the opponent turning a book which he could’ve cut if he had held onto the Trump. In other words, we should have them in a crossfire. He shouldn’t push trumps back on when we’re the only ones who have trumps and my number two flex,in a no Trump, even though he might have a winner, he needs to get out of my way because he might not have another winning card in his hand and then he let me vulnerable to the other players,In other words, if he doesn’t have a couple of one in cards to get back to me or if he’s not able to get back to me, he should get out of my way. Let me run the boy.
Developer Response Jul 14
Excellent point. We have not seen this issue of the AI partner leading back trumps when only partner has trumps. We will look for this and work on a fix. Note, level 3 has a rule-based AI it should count well and play pretty well like we humans do. Levels 4+ use an advanced Monte Carlo Simulation method. They make some errors that we humans would not make but play better than level 3 overall. Thank you for your review.
Needs an AI upgrade
Feb 8

VA Aggie
This game is alot of fun and there are alot of options that are provided to customize your game to the various rules/styles of playing Bid Whist! The main gripe I have is that the AI’s game strategy as your partner could be improved. Too often I find the AI cutting over me for no reason, especially when they have losers in their hand. This periodically happens when I have the bid or when I’m in the process of winning the book to help my partner when the AI wins the bid. Another case is during a “no trump” bid, the AI also has a bad habit of winning a book and not giving my suit back to me so that I can continue leading the charge on my bid. If these issues can be ironed out, this game is one to be played all the time!

Developer Response
Thank you for your review. Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Bid Whist. To get the "Low beats high" setting to work, please try the following. From settings - custom rules, choose "Low beats high". Then on the main screen choose "Custom rules" from the spinner and press "New Game" to play with your new custom rule settings. Currently one must choose "Custom Rules" and start a new game to have the custom rules take effect. Please contact use at support@neuralplay.com for more details.
Needs an AI upgrade
Feb 8

VA Aggie

This game is alot of fun and there are alot of options that are provided to customize your game to the various rules/styles of playing Bid Whist! The main gripe I have is that the AI’s game strategy as your partner could be improved. Too often I find the AI cutting over me for no reason, especially when they have losers in their hand. This periodically happens when I have the bid or when I’m in the process of winning the book to help my partner when the AI wins the bid. Another case is during a “no trump” bid, the AI also has a bad habit of winning a book and not giving my suit back to me so that I can continue leading the charge on my bid. If these issues can be ironed out, this game is one to be played all the time!
Developer Response 01/04/2021
Thank you for your review. Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Bid Whist. To get the "Low beats high" setting to work, please try the following. From settings - custom rules, choose "Low beats high". Then on the main screen choose "Custom rules" from the spinner and press "New Game" to play with your new custom rule settings. Currently one must choose "Custom Rules" and start a new game to have the custom rules take effect. Please contact use at support@neuralplay.com for more details.

• AI improvements. • UI improvements.

Version 4.82

Dec 19

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