Pinochle Reviews

Generally I like Pinochle, but there’s no provision for strategically using tens and kings when they’re the high card. Instead of holding them so they can take a trick, Pinochle ALWAYS uses them as schmears. It’s very irritating to lose a hand or even a game because a high card was wasted on schmearing.

The game is well laid out with plenty of configurations and options for making it the version you are use to playing.

But don’t expect to win very often. The reason: your system managed partner does not use the same algorithms for bidding or playing tricks that your competitors use. This can be extremely frustrating some times. It is no where near as aggressive at bidding or calculating when playing tricks than the competing team. and often your partner will make plays that no experienced player would make.

So play the game is fine for fun if you don’t mind loosing most of the time and don’t consider it reflective or practice for a real game.

I play this game often. I'm a single deck player. The meld is ridiculous. Dummy opposing team seem to get all large meld hand. 45 meld, 27 meld. Ridiculous!!! Opponent always has the aces. My dummy partner doesn't bid correctly and how bout an update with the option of NO auction bid? Takes all the fun out of the game. It's hard enough to get a run, then they get 26 meld. Fix this game and make it fair. How this gets on the update is crazy. Find out who did that, and who approved it, fire them both. I give 2 stars just cause I love this app. 2 stars is pushing it for me. Get people who really know how to play the game to redesign it.
Offer no no action bid.

This is a great game! However, when the opponent is cutting a suit, why is it necessary to give them a counter to cut instead of a non-counter. For example: why play an ace instead of a jack in a suit when I know the opponent is cutting in a suit?

Also, why give away ur trump suit towards the end of a hand when u have a suit the opponent is cutting only to draw that last trump from the opponents hand? Why not play the suit being cut instead to draw their last trump suit and keep the remaining trump in your hand?

I’ve been playing single deck, bidding starts at 15, each side needs at least 10 of 25 counters to score anything. 250 points win. It’s very difficult to win when:
1. Your partner plays and bids poorly while the opponents not only play like experts but each seems to know what the other has: i.e., ‘Unauthorized Information’. Your partner (North) may refuse to bid in the rare case of holding Aces round and an opponent may name a not so good 3 or 4 card suit as trump and find 4, 5, or 6 trumps in other opponent’s hand. Hard to win playing 3 against 1 even when there’s no ‘cheating’!
2. Opponents are dealt far more good hands than you and partner. Sometimes, 8 or 9 out of 10 hands. You’re dealt no good suit and no or one lousy ace so usually either the opponents get bid and you don’t score and if you do bid you get set. Opponents get Aces round and Runs many time more than you and partner do.

Show meld for ALL players instead of showing meld one player at a time.

Reconsider meld bids. In my world, a jump of two points = a meld bid of 20, jump of three points shows a meld bid of 30, etc. In Pinochle, apparently a jump bid just means *some* meld. Even just 10.

I have found the opponent plays better than my partner in this double deck game. My partner once had double Aces around (100 points) with 3 Aces with a run. Partner passed without a bid! However, it is the closest double deck this app (do not play with passing) to the real game without the human factor! I do enjoy it even with the horrible partner.

Very good version of the game with lots of customization features. My only complaint is that the game is very pessimistic about how many tricks you can take. For example: say you need 20 tricks to save your meld and Pinochle says you might take 17. More times than not I’ll end up taking high 20’s or even 30 or more. This part of Pinochle need some work.

Some people play where the failing bid pointS go to the other team, not count as negative points. Game goes quicker yes, but....
another cool rule is where 5 10s of any suit count as 50 points for meld
This is the only time 10s count for anything, which pits them in play a little and sometimes you don’t want to lay it down in melding because you opponents then can see where the 10s are.
Another optional rule is if anyone is dealt 5 9s and no meld there is an auto redeal.
These would be options in settings, so, I think it would be cool to see some of the options for play...
Great game, thank you
MRICHARDSON

I really like Pinochle and would like to gift it to a friend, but share as a gift is not an available choice when I bring it up in Pinochle store. Why not? I’m happy to pay for the gift with no ads, but this option not there.

Is there a way to play online? I really enjoy your App and it allows me to keep playing my favorite game.
It is extremely difficult to find people that know how to play double deck this app in my area.
Keep up the great App ❣️

I learned how to play Double Handed Pinocle back in my Air Force Fire Fighter days back in 1993.i had coworkers who showed no interest in teaching us younger guys the game. 8 years later and I was playing every shift we worked. Now I have to play on Pinochle. And my partner is useless as a player. But I do have a winning record. The meld passing needs to be more concrete not so inconsistent. 12 isn’t close to 20 meld. But it’s still a great game!!

Home team cannot win at all almost always the other team knows what each other has while the home team has no clue.

This game is good with a few caveats. There is no building strategy. (i.e. your partner will not try to build 4 of a kind during card swap among others). Once you get used to the AI strategy you will do very well. Very entertaining.

Needs to allow players ability to not play bosses when they want to. After east and west have play north and south hold the bosses and need option to get trumped out so there bosses don’t get trumped.

Please stop the ads. I purchased the plus to avoid them... I do like Pinochle though

I do not like the annoying pop-up between hands while playing double deck this app. This is new since the upgrade.
Love everything else about the game.

This by far is the best APP game I’ve ever downloaded. It has absolutely kept me from going crazy with all these COVID-19 lockdowns. I spend hours playing it.

Very enjoyable. Mechanical at times. It would be nice if the three computer played hands had a programmed trump counter enabling these hands to be played properly.

Partner never leads trump, too predictable. Also will outbid you with nothing to take tricks just high meld score. Opponents alway put ace on anything you lead and never set up partner.

But I still play.