Pinochle - Expert AI 4+

Just learning Pinochle? The AI will show you suggested bids and plays. Play along and learn. For experienced players, six levels of AI play are ready to challenge you!

NeuralPlay Pinochle offers many rule options. Customize to play with your favorite rules! Preset rules are provided for the popular single deck and double deck variants.

Features include:
• Undo.
• Replay hand.
• Skip hand.
• Offline play.
• Detailed statistics.
• Bid and play hints. Uncertain of what to bid or play? See what the computer would do!
• Bid and play checker. Let the computer check your bidding and play throughout the game and point out differences.
• Play review. Step through the play of the hand to review and improve your play.
• Six levels of computer AI to provide challenges for beginning to advanced players.
• Unique thinking AI to provide a strong AI opponent for different rule variations.
• Claim. Claim the remaining tricks when your hand is high.

Rule customizations include:

• Deck size. Choose single deck or double deck.
• Scoring style. Choose modern or classic scoring.
• Passing. Choose to pass from zero to four cards.
• Kitty. Choose to play with a four card kitty for declarer.
• Minimum opening bid. Set the minimum opening bid from 10 to 50 points.
• Bid increment after 60. Set the bid increment after 60 to one or five.
• Customize the meld values. Set the run value to 25 points instead of 15, for example.
• Meld bidding. Convey your approximate meld points to your AI partner with jump bidding.
• Require marriage. Choose whether or not to require a marriage in the trump suit.
• Extra K or Q with run. Set the value for an extra K or Q in a run to 0 points, 2 points, or 4 points.
• Minimum meld points. Set the minimum meld points to claim meld.
• Minimum tricks to save meld. Set the minimum trick points to save meld.
• Surrender. Choose whether or not to allow surrender of the hand after bidding.
• Surrender opponent's score. Set the points awarded to the opponents when one surrenders.
• Initial lead. Choose to allow any suit to be lead or require trump to be lead.
• Must beat. Choose whether one must pay higher when any suit is lead or only when trump is lead.
• Card points values. Set the card point values for the A, 10, K, etc.
• Shooting the Moon. Choose to enable Shooting the Moon and determine the score point value.