Earn credits as you play. Finish games to earn them, with more for wins, longer games and your first game of the day. You start with 25. Spend them on help when you want it: • Suggest Card shows a good card to play, and why. • Peek at Widow shows the widow while you bid. • Good Starting Hand offers you stronger hands to choose from. • Undo takes back your last card. Or unlock theme packs: eight packs of new backgrounds and card backs. Your credits are saved to a Blackbird account the app makes for you, with no sign-up. Stay signed in to Game Center, or use Sign in with Apple or Google in Settings, to keep them on a new device. Smarter computer players: bids more carefully, and Medium plays third hand high.

CHOOSE HOW WELL THE COMPUTER PLAYS • Pick Easy, Medium or Hard for your opponents, and set your partner's level on its own, in Settings. • Hard is new: it thinks through many ways the hidden cards could lie before it bids or plays. • Easy makes the kinds of mistakes a beginner would. • Each computer's level shows as dots under its name at the table and on the scorecard. • Blackbird may suggest a harder or easier level depending on how your games go. If you turn a suggestion down, it won't offer that level again. SMARTER COMPUTER PLAYERS • The computer bids more realistically. It goes higher with strong hands, competes for the bid near the end of a game, pushes opponents' bids up, and plays it safe when it would win the game on defense. • It adjusts its bidding to the rules you play with, such as keeping the nest or bonuses for taking every trick. • It picks trump by how many cards it holds in each suit, and discards and plays its cards better. NEW ACHIEVEMENTS • Beat Easy, Medium and Hard opponents, win 10 games against Hard, and beat Hard with an Easy partner. YOUR STATS • Your record for the rules you're playing (win percentage, current streak and longest streak) now appears beside the scorecard. • Your stats are now kept for each level. Your stats from before this update count as Medium. MORE CONTROL • Don't want the point values on the cards? Turn off "Show points on cards" in Settings. • The fastest game speed is a little faster. • Sharper card and table art on iPhone. FIXES • A saved game now picks up where you left off after the app was closed. • When you resumed a saved game, computer players could learn the nest's cards even under rules that keep the nest hidden. They no longer see them. • The all-points bonus is now added on top of other bonuses instead of replacing them.

New to Rook? Blackbird now teaches you as you play. • Learning tips guide you through your first game: bidding, the nest, choosing trump, discarding, playing tricks and scoring. The tips follow whichever rules you're playing with. • Cards now show their point values, so you can see at a glance which cards count. • New players choose their rules the first time they open the app. • Want a refresher? Tap "Reset learning tips" in Settings to see the tips again. • Bug fixes and improvements.

Themes are now free! Several general fixes and updates

• Restore the size of the cards. • Add support for iPhone X • The multiplayer button has been removed. I feel really bad that multiplayer has been disabled for so long and that so many people just saw a message saying it was "coming soon". I really did intend to fix it well before now. But my life has gotten more busy than it was before and I don't want to promise it's coming soon. It is still on my list of things to add. I'd love to have a single device multiplayer mode. I'd love to have it work over bluetooth so you can play with nearby friends when you don't have an internet connection. And more. Aside from multiplayer, there are still requests to support more variations of the rules that I'd love to implement and many other features. I do plan to add more features. Multiplayer will take some time and I can't promise when it's coming. Thanks for your support!

Add support for iPhone X The multiplayer button has been removed. I feel really bad that it has been disabled for so long and that so many people just saw a message saying it was "coming soon". I really did intend to fix it well before now. But my life has gotten more busy than it was before and I don't want to promise it's coming soon. It is still on my list of things to add. I'd love to have a single device multiplayer mode. I'd love to have it work over bluetooth so you can play with nearby friends when you don't have an internet connection. And more. Aside from multiplayer, there are still requests to support more variations of the rules that I'd love to implement and many other features. I do plan to add more features. Multiplayer will take some time and I can't promise when it's coming. Thanks for all your support!

Minor AI improvements and bug fixes. Since iOS 10, the multiplayer hasn't worked. I'm really sorry for this. I'm actively working on a solution for this!

• It will teach you how to change trump if you tap the wrong one accidentally • Minor improvements to the computer's playing skills • Fix for fetching themes • Other minor bug fixes

• It will teach you how to change trump if you tap the wrong one accidentally • Point cards show the points on the card • Minor improvements to the computer's playing skills • Other minor bug fixes

Fixed a bug causing players to play another round after they had already won. New rule option: you can now specify a score bonus that is awarded to the team that captures the last trick.

Fixed a bug in multiplayer games requiring users to leave and re-enter the game to see progress. Also squashed some other minor bugs.

You can now purchase a Christmas theme for the game! More themes are coming including some free ones.

Minor bug fixes

Minor bug fixes

Fixed minor minor bugs. In version 1.6.0: Major changes to multiplayer: • Multiplayer is now turn-based! • You can play with players that you don't know (via Game Center auto-match) Please read at least the first sentence of each of the 3 bullets below so that you understand how multiplayer games have changed. Because it is turn-based, there are a few changes to the way multiplayer games work now: • INVITED PLAYERS WILL GET THEIR INVITATION WHEN IT BECOMES THEIR TURN. Invite your friends, arrange the teams, and make your bid. Then, the next player will get their invitation. Once everyone is in the game, you will see real-time updates as players play. • YOU NO LONGER HAVE TO PLAY AT THE SAME TIME AS EVERYONE ELSE. Generally, your team-mates would probably rather that you take your turn right when it is your turn. But, you don't have to anymore. You can take your turn, close the game, go mow the lawn, and come back to take your next turn. • YOU CAN BE INVOLVED IN MANY MULTIPLAYER GAMES AT ONCE. When you tap the "Multiplayer" button, it will let you setup a new multiplayer game. If you have games in progress, then it will show you a list of your games in progress and you can continue one of them or start a new one. IMPORTANT TIP: If a multiplayer game doesn't update in real-time like you expect or some other oddity occurs, just go back to the menu and then go back into your game and it will fix itself. If it doesn't, please let me know via the "Feedback" option in Settings. Other changes: • You don't have to forfeit and quit your single player game to play a multiplayer game and vice versa. Just tap the "Continue" button under "Single Player" to continue a single player game. Or, tap the "Multiplayer" button to see a list of your multiplayer games. Then, tap one of them to continue where you left off. • Statistics are no longer tracked in multiplayer games. The game can't reliably know when someone forfeits, loses, or wins since the game can be removed via Game Center without telling Blackbird. • The scorecard doesn't appear in the menu during a game anymore. While you're playing a game, tap the score next to the menu button and a "Scorecard" button will appear. Tap that "Scorecard" button to see the scorecard. • Achievements and Settings were moved to icons in the top right corner of the menu. • You can now easily see and change which rule set you're going to play with from the menu. • Minor bug fixes

Fixed a scoring bug, an auto-match bug, a discarding bug and a couple other minor bugs. In version 1.6.0: Major changes to multiplayer: • Multiplayer is now turn-based! • You can play with players that you don't know (via Game Center auto-match) Please read at least the first sentence of each of the 3 bullets below so that you understand how multiplayer games have changed. Because it is turn-based, there are a few changes to the way multiplayer games work now: • INVITED PLAYERS WILL GET THEIR INVITATION WHEN IT BECOMES THEIR TURN. Invite your friends, arrange the teams, and make your bid. Then, the next player will get their invitation. Once everyone is in the game, you will see real-time updates as players play. • YOU NO LONGER HAVE TO PLAY AT THE SAME TIME AS EVERYONE ELSE. Generally, your team-mates would probably rather that you take your turn right when it is your turn. But, you don't have to anymore. You can take your turn, close the game, go mow the lawn, and come back to take your next turn. • YOU CAN BE INVOLVED IN MANY MULTIPLAYER GAMES AT ONCE. When you tap the "Multiplayer" button, it will let you setup a new multiplayer game. If you have games in progress, then it will show you a list of your games in progress and you can continue one of them or start a new one. IMPORTANT TIP: If a multiplayer game doesn't update in real-time like you expect or some other oddity occurs, just go back to the menu and then go back into your game and it will fix itself. If it doesn't, please let me know via the "Feedback" option in Settings. Other changes: • You don't have to forfeit and quit your single player game to play a multiplayer game and vice versa. Just tap the "Continue" button under "Single Player" to continue a single player game. Or, tap the "Multiplayer" button to see a list of your multiplayer games. Then, tap one of them to continue where you left off. • Statistics are no longer tracked in multiplayer games. The game can't reliably know when someone forfeits, loses, or wins since the game can be removed via Game Center without telling Blackbird. • The scorecard doesn't appear in the menu during a game anymore. While you're playing a game, tap the score next to the menu button and a "Scorecard" button will appear. Tap that "Scorecard" button to see the scorecard. • Achievements and Settings were moved to icons in the top right corner of the menu. • You can now easily see and change which rule set you're going to play with from the menu. • Minor bug fixes

Fixed a discarding bug and a couple other minor bugs. In version 1.6.0: Major changes to multiplayer: • Multiplayer is now turn-based! • You can play with players that you don't know (via Game Center auto-match) Please read at least the first sentence of each of the 3 bullets below so that you understand how multiplayer games have changed. Because it is turn-based, there are a few changes to the way multiplayer games work now: • INVITED PLAYERS WILL GET THEIR INVITATION WHEN IT BECOMES THEIR TURN. Invite your friends, arrange the teams, and make your bid. Then, the next player will get their invitation. Once everyone is in the game, you will see real-time updates as players play. • YOU NO LONGER HAVE TO PLAY AT THE SAME TIME AS EVERYONE ELSE. Generally, your team-mates would probably rather that you take your turn right when it is your turn. But, you don't have to anymore. You can take your turn, close the game, go mow the lawn, and come back to take your next turn. • YOU CAN BE INVOLVED IN MANY MULTIPLAYER GAMES AT ONCE. When you tap the "Multiplayer" button, it will let you setup a new multiplayer game. If you have games in progress, then it will show you a list of your games in progress and you can continue one of them or start a new one. IMPORTANT TIP: If a multiplayer game doesn't update in real-time like you expect or some other oddity occurs, just go back to the menu and then go back into your game and it will fix itself. If it doesn't, please let me know via the "Feedback" option in Settings. Other changes: • You don't have to forfeit and quit your single player game to play a multiplayer game and vice versa. Just tap the "Continue" button under "Single Player" to continue a single player game. Or, tap the "Multiplayer" button to see a list of your multiplayer games. Then, tap one of them to continue where you left off. • Statistics are no longer tracked in multiplayer games. The game can't reliably know when someone forfeits, loses, or wins since the game can be removed via Game Center without telling Blackbird. • The scorecard doesn't appear in the menu during a game anymore. While you're playing a game, tap the score next to the menu button and a "Scorecard" button will appear. Tap that "Scorecard" button to see the scorecard. • Achievements and Settings were moved to icons in the top right corner of the menu. • You can now easily see and change which rule set you're going to play with from the menu. • Minor bug fixes

Major changes to multiplayer: • Multiplayer is now turn-based! • You can play with players that you don't know (via Game Center auto-match) Please read at least the first sentence of each of the 3 bullets below so that you understand how multiplayer games have changed. Because it is turn-based, there are a few changes to the way multiplayer games work now: • INVITED PLAYERS WILL GET THEIR INVITATION WHEN IT BECOMES THEIR TURN. Invite your friends, arrange the teams, and make your bid. Then, the next player will get their invitation. Once everyone is in the game, you will see real-time updates as players play. • YOU NO LONGER HAVE TO PLAY AT THE SAME TIME AS EVERYONE ELSE. Generally, your team-mates would probably rather that you take your turn right when it is your turn. But, you don't have to anymore. You can take your turn, close the game, go mow the lawn, and come back to take your next turn. • YOU CAN BE INVOLVED IN MANY MULTIPLAYER GAMES AT ONCE. When you tap the "Multiplayer" button, it will let you setup a new multiplayer game. If you have games in progress, then it will show you a list of your games in progress and you can continue one of them or start a new one. IMPORTANT TIP: If a multiplayer game doesn't update in real-time like you expect or some other oddity occurs, just go back to the menu and then go back into your game and it will fix itself. If it doesn't, please let me know via the "Feedback" option in Settings. Other changes: • You don't have to forfeit and quit your single player game to play a multiplayer game and vice versa. Just tap the "Continue" button under "Single Player" to continue a single player game. Or, tap the "Multiplayer" button to see a list of your multiplayer games. Then, tap one of them to continue where you left off. • Statistics are no longer tracked in multiplayer games. The game can't reliably know when someone forfeits, loses, or wins since the game can be removed via Game Center without telling Blackbird. • The scorecard doesn't appear in the menu during a game anymore. While you're playing a game, tap the score next to the menu button and a "Scorecard" button will appear. Tap that "Scorecard" button to see the scorecard. • Achievements and Settings were moved to icons in the top right corner of the menu. • You can now easily see and change which rule set you're going to play with from the menu. • Minor bug fixes

• AI improvements • Bug fixes The computers are now smarter about which cards they play when they know they'll lose. Also, if you play with the rules that allow high-trump Blackbird to be played anytime, the computer will play that card a little more conservatively.

• Fixed a bug not showing friends names when inviting friends to a multiplayer game v1.5.1 • New rule option: misdeal! No need to suffer through absolutely terrible hands anymore! You can decide whether a misdeal means: no point cards, no cards above 9, or no cards above 10. The official rules are set to declare a misdeal when there are no point cards. The Western Wyoming rules are set to declare a misdeal/throw up when there are no cards above a 9. • iOS 7 compatibility • Minor AI improvements • Bug fixes Remember that you can customize the rules by creating your own rule set. Do you want to force the Blackbird to follow suit or change the game winning score? There are lots of rules you can customize. Just go to "Settings" → "Active rule set" → "New rule set" and setup the rules the way you like!

• New rule option: misdeal! No need to suffer through absolutely terrible hands anymore! You can decide whether a misdeal means: no point cards, no cards above 9, or no cards above 10. The official rules are set to declare a misdeal when there are no point cards. The Western Wyoming rules are set to declare a misdeal/throw up when there are no cards above a 9. • iOS 7 compatibility • Minor AI improvements • Bug fixes Remember that you can customize the rules by creating your own rule set. Do you want to force the Blackbird to follow suit or change the game winning score? There are lots of rules you can customize. Just go to "Settings" → "Active rule set" → "New rule set" and setup the rules the way you like!

• Game Center achievements! • Statistics - you will see a few statistics after every game. Go to Settings → Statistics to see them all! • Minor AI improvements • Bug fixes Remember that you can customize the rules by creating your own rule set. Do you want to force the Blackbird to follow suit or change the game winning score? There are lots of rules you can customize. Just go to "Settings" → "Active rule set" → "New rule set" and setup the rules the way you like!

Bug fixes Version 1.4.3 • Fixed some bugs during multiplayer games • Even if you shut the app down or restart your device in the middle of a game, you can continue playing. • New style for settings screen • Minor AI improvements Coming soon... • Game Center achievements • Statistics • Play with people around the world (people that aren't your friends yet)

Don't update to this version of the app if you play with the rule that allows the Blackbird to be played anytime. There is a bug that causes the app to crash. I have submitted another update to Apple that fixes this bug. Sorry! • Fixed some bugs during multiplayer games • Even if you shut the app down or restart your device in the middle of a game, you can continue playing. • New style for settings screen • Minor AI improvements Coming soon... • Game Center achievements • Statistics • Play with people around the world (people that aren't your friends yet)

Fixed the low bidding introduced in 1.4.0. You only would have noticed if you don't play with 1s or if you don't play with 2-4.