Pinochle Lite 4+

In single-player mode, I agree with a couple of people judging the game play is poor. Whoever programmed the robot-partner part of the App really doesn't seem to understand how to pass cards to a partner who's won the bid. My win rate is not great, but my team wins 75% of the games in 'hard' mode. But when our team has lost its often been within our grasp had not the bot been a bonehead. It systematically makes dumb moves. For example, when named trump is clubs or hearts it passes parts of pinochle instead of trump or instead of aces! This, even when the bidding is high, suggesting trump is needed to fill a double run. I've missed a double run countless times because the bot holds onto kings and jacks around rather fill in my double run. For pity sake, if you can't pass trump then pass aces- I'll send you MY parts of pinochle!!

Then, if by some lucky chance the bidder gets the double run (more likely if trump was spades or diamonds), all of the Aces it held on to are often lost to trump anyway! In the real world I'd never want to play with such a dumb partner. In the old days when yahoo hosted live online pinochle such poor partners would get booted from the game!

Your robot partner logic needs some serious work. There are several complaints about how stupid the partner is. Today my "partner" did not pass the jack of my club trump suit, and then I find out it has both jacks but passed something like the queen of spades instead! It frequently throws away an ace of a suit that I melt the K+Q in on my trump trick, and it keeps leading counters of a suit that will obviously be trumped by the opponent before pulling trump.

I like the game but PLEASE improve the logic so the partner is a better player.

Updated 2021 This is a well-polished app, though there is some room for improvement/development. Game play is smooth, and the banner ads are relatively unobtrusive. The AI partner does play a good strategy in cooperation with me. I find the rules fairly similar to what I learned years ago—must play trump if you don’t have the suit, bidder out, etc. A suggestion: allow for “house rules” such as the team must take 20 counters or lose meld, or starting bid is 50, or opening trick must use trump or Ace (or Ace of trump in my cousins’ rules). One problem is the tiny size of the cards at the beginning of each hand...it’s too easy to tap the wrong card and you can’t take it back. I know it would lead to some cheating, but I’d like an undo button for when my fat fingers don’t play the card I chose.