Play your favorite trick-taking card game where ever you go with Sheepshead the App, available for free on both iPhone and iPad. Come play with and against computer A.I. players (disguised as friendly animals) that have been meticulously tuned and tested to ensure top notch competitive performance. No longer will you be scratching your head wondering if your partner is truly a farm animal based on his last play. Choose from a variety of game modes and settings, including three, four, or five handed; regular or tournament; jack or ace partner; and leasters or doublers.
The players
Recently- I’ve seen my ‘team’ when we aren’t the picker act dumb and sacrifice points when later the have trump in had. For example; Comp picker sets hearts as partner. I win a round and choose hearts to show the partner. One comp player who has the 10 of diamonds plays the 10 of clubs effectively giving the picker an extra 10 points. When they could have played 10 of trump(which they played later in their hand that still went to the computer picker. And, they choose when they don’t even have a single queen in their hand. And loose catastrophically. But if they pass I could have a regular win. Or a close one. Which make the game fun. It’s not fun when I’m playing with.. computer that are distracted. They aren’t doing a good job of giving p you points when you will obviously take the half and the partner has been revealed.
United StatesBad logic in Ace version
While playing Ace, I don’t know how many times my ‘Partners’ will use the call suit trick to clear out fail, then later have a useless trump. That is such a such a stupid play, I can’t play this version anymore. I also do not like the tendency to hold trump until the last trick or two, but that deviation is more stylistic than a logic flaw.
United StatesOkay to scratch the itch
AI gameplay needs major improvements. Things I’ve noticed: 1. Partners will often not trump called suit trick. 2. Partners will often not smear where appropriate and in known smear situations. 3. VERY consistently poor hands. 4. Almost always lose when partner. 5. Ridiculous picks by the AI. 6. EVERY time I get back close to 0, the game makes sure I lose about 10x times in a row. 7. Had a situation where AI players went alone 5 times in a row, all producing 0 trick hands. It’s “sheepshead” in name only. Gameplay itself is reasonable about 20% of the time. I did notice a bug though where if you pick and click the discard pile the game crashes. That seems to temporarily reset the horrid play.
United StatesP F T
Play it long enough you realize a ten year old must have put this together, pure f trash !
United States
Smarter animals! The computer players now use fancy neural networks in order to better guess who the partner is and make better decisions accordingly.
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