Pros: simple and easy to playCons: minor user experience issuesThis is a game app replicating the classic contract bridge. The market does not have many Contract Bridge apps, and most of them are not good in design, like the skill of the computer opponent or the artistic elements. So this app can still stand out, albeit not achieving the good quality in general game app design. Generally the app is fine. Below some points are noticed:User exp.: During the card selecting phase, when choosing a card, the app displays the whole set of suit first. This is a redundant step. Most card game app can directly select that particular card.Transition of the pages: It seems the app uses fade in/out heavily in the inter-pages navigation. The idea may not be that good as the whole process looks slow and not clear-cut smooth. A simple direct cuts (like usual apps) may work better.The speed and smoothness of the game: In short, it is slow, even if activating the singleton selection. And indeed the last card cannot automatically be played. Most of the card game apps can have a quicker response after playing a card. For the AI of the computer opponents, since I am not an expert bridge player, I should not comment much. Overall, the app is fine and I enjoy playing it.

So for the bidding. Why on hard mode does your partner open with anything and if you don’t respond with the same suit they will not continue the bid where I was telling them my best suit and that I have 6-9 points myself. Also when the computer bids 1 club it doesn’t understand that when that is bid it means you have points in most or all suits and need your partner to pick a suit that you have the most of. This game makes me want to uninstall it when I knew I had almost 25 points and my partner just passed when they had 6-9 points and a decent suit to call their trump so I could bid game like I wanted to. Also it doesn’t understand that when you start with something over the 1 level you have an amazing suit or hand and want to go to game. It’s almost impossible to get your partner to bid over the 3 level but the opponent computers have no problem bidding their hands….As for play why does every computer know exactly what aces and kings and that their partner is void immediately on opening and they always get all the early tricks they could… For the partner computer if it knows every ace or king it should play at the beginning then why can it not keep up with the fact that they are void and while the card I played to the board is bigger than that one it is not bigger than the top one out and so they should trump…

I’m editing my original review after the app developer contacted me and had updated the app and fixed the bidding problems for the most part. The app actually plays quite well now and is fun to play and much less frustrating. I’ve won fewer rubbers since the update but playing the hard level is more akin to real life with some average bridge players.North doesn’t bid in any known bridge method. North routinely opens with fewer than 10 points in suits with no face cards. North will jump shift to a suit that it ends up having to small cards in and fewer than 10 points total. North discards face cards that would win the next lead from dummy to allow EW to make their bid. Even at the hard level it’s like playing with someone who has no knowledge of the game of bridge. North routinely takes you to a five bid in a major when it is unnecessary to make game and you end up one under. Frustrating to say the least.

I used to love this game until I started to see some patterns. East and west almost always get hands they can bid on. Rarely and I mean very very rarely they can’t bid. Even when north and south are given a good hand, east and west get a good competitive hand. That’s ok once in a while, it makes the game challenging, but when it happens all the time, it’s not quite the same. I’m playing as south and north will often bid when it doesn’t even have enough Trump (that it’s calling), to make the point. It’s also over bid me on a few occasions and come to find out, it’s only got 2-3 of that suit. Not nearly enough to even call much less win. Between this app and another that always makes the partner way over bid every time, I’ve basically lost my taste for this game. So this is a great app to make you hate the game. It will pull you in making you think it’s set up ok, but you will start to notice how every hand your opponents ALWAYS get a good competitive hand. Not an issue once in a while, but when it happens all the time it is an issue!!