Dog Board Game 4+

Swiss board game with cards

Value from Software LLC

    • 5,99 €
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Dog is a popular board game with cards. Your goal is to get all your and your partner's marbles into the target area before your opponents do. Our app is available for iPhone, Mac, iPad, and iPod touch. It reached repeatedly ranks 2 and 3 of all games in the Swiss App Store, with thousands of ratings at an astonishing average of 4.7 stars, and ranks regularly among the top ranks for card and board game apps in several countries.

In each round you first receive a handful of cards. You have to give one of your cards with your partner, and receive one of his cards. Cards that you play advance your marble. A marble that lands exactly on another marble sends it home. Special cards speed up your moves, by exchanging marble positions, going backwards, or splitting advances over several marbles. When you are done with your own marbles, you have to help your partner, as you can only win together.

Dog for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch lets you play on boards of variable size, and offers a variety of bot players with different characters and strength that you can select as partners or adversaries. In addition we offer the following rule variants:

- Canadian Seven: A Seven may be split among all of a team's marbles, including own and partner marbles. Such splits are available during the entire game and not just when all own marbles have reached the target area. This enables more complex moves.

- Joker cannot win: A Joker may not be used for the final move to enter a team's last marble and win the game. This prolongs the game and improves the trailing team's chances to win.

Variants may be selected separately or in combination.

The complexity of the game literally explodes with the Canadian 7 split rule. Millions of different moves are possible in some situations. We had to rebuild almost everything to ensure that even in such cases you can select every possible move without delay, and that our bot players can analyze and compare every single move. We have therefore decided to offer these variants as in-app purchases.

Invite friends to a multiplayer game, or find other players on the Internet! The players see your board and play their cards and marbles on their iPhone, Mac, iPad, or iPod touch. Your devices communicate easily over the Internet via Game Center, or locally (no registrations needed) via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi network. The app supplies bot players on empty game seats, so you can finally play with your friends even if you are missing a third or fourth player.

Blind and visually impaired players can select moves through VoiceOver. We encourage you to get acquainted with the standard VoiceOver features of iOS, and in particular with rotors.

What’s New

Version 2.8.9

Adapted to iOS 17

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
24 Ratings

24 Ratings

Reini_W ,

Sehr gut gelungen!

Wir spielen schon seit langem DOG als Brettspiel und ich finde diese App "fühlt" sich genauso an wie auf dem Brett. Auch der Mehrspielermodus funzt tadellos! Ein "eine runde geht noch" Spiel das für mich wirklich 5 Sterne verdient hat, wenn man DOG mag!

Zyxd.Rd76 ,

AI schummelt, leider…

Prinzipiell solide gemacht, eine Sache ruiniert‘s für mich aber völlig: Ich würd gern ein realistisches Spiel spielen, wie auch beim echten Brettspiel. Die stärkeren AI-Gegner schummeln aber leider derart, dass dies nicht möglich ist. Ich hab tatsächlich begonnen, mitzuprotokollieren, wie oft der Gegner die gerade notwendige Karte hat… oder sogar die notwendigen zwei, oder drei.
Viel zu oft.
(dies vermutlich deshalb, weil auch die stärkste Stufe nicht gerade großartig spielt… und leider auch der Partner. Z.B. macht er, wenn er eine Vier auf der Startposition hat, immer sofort auf, auch wenn dahinter mehrere Gegner stehen und er einige Runden warten könnte)

Am Ende hilft nur eine Spielweise: null Risiko,
absolute Sicherheit.

Developer Response ,

Keiner unserer Computerspieler schummelt. Sie sehen nur die aktuelle Position aller Steine und ihre eigenen Karten. Wie gute menschliche Spieler merken sie sich auch, welche Karte sie vom Partner erhalten haben und welche sie dem Partner gegeben haben. Für jeden Zug bestimmen und bewerten sie alle möglichen Züge und wählen den besten daraus. Kombinationen und deren Erfolgschancen berechnen sie, wie Sie im ersten Abschnitt beobachten, vermutlich genauer als die meisten menschlichen Spieler. Dafür haben sie etwas weniger Weitsicht, wie Sie es am Ende beschreiben. Alles in allem sind unsere Computerspieler gute, aber nicht perfekte, und definitiv nie unehrliche Spieler.

App Privacy

The developer, Value from Software LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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Supports

  • Game Center

    Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.

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