Extreme 500 4+

Great game. Have noticed a few bugs in the ‘partners’ game play though:

1. They bid more tricks then is needed to win the game - if we only need 6 spades to win (and no-one else calls), why does the partner often call 7 or even 8 (which he almost always loses!).

2. The partner doesn’t seem to recognise the Jack’s as being bowers when he doesn’t have the lead / call. He plays them below the queen - this is frustrating when he could win a trick by playing the Jack, but plays a queen or king instead (losing the hand…).

I often play multiple games without the partner making a call at all. Any way of setting the partners risk level / appetite would be awesome too.

These are minor points, this is an awesome game. Thanks!

You never lead the joker first when you make it no trumps, you save it so you can get back in the game. You never play top card when your partner leads, when you have smaller trumps, it makes your partner think you have no more trumps. You also don’t call 7 of the same trump when the opponent before you calls 6, it’s quite obvious the person who developed this app a very poor 500player. Please tweak this game to make it better. Also once opponents are out of trumps, play your suit instead of playing trumps and robbing your partner of all his trumps, but appears you haven’t tried to correct anything so don’t see anything happening to make it better. When your partner has the trick, and you are the last player never take it when you have a smaller trump in your hand absolutely has no idea how to play 500. Fix it. Whoever done this App doesn’t know a thing about 500 why would you play the right bower on the Joker when you have a smaller trump in your hand. Your partner doesn’t take your trick with the joker after player one card in no trumps is played as you usually have a run down in one suit and cannot get back in. Please fix these mistakes I could scream poor poor player. Stop draining your partner for trumps when opposition has no trumps left use your suit, even if not good your partner may not have that suit and take it with a trump, sorry mate you haven’t played much 500.

First thing that needs fixing is to provide the capacity for sorting of cards into suits in your hand, and the associated weird way that cards fly to the far left if you try to sort them. I actually played a hand today where the card I wanted to lead disappeared from the screen altogether and was not seen again until I led with another, less useful card! Bot opponents perhaps could use better strategies for playing against misere -why play the lowest card in a suit if you partner has already won the trick? Also there’s a tendency for your partner to keep leading trumps even where the opponents have clearly run out, draining my trumps unnecessarily. I also agree with others that the dealing animation is tedious, and I would much rather have the hand just appear.