Great for a very basic app with limited ads, but dear god, if you want any sort of subtlety… better to just deal with the ads in another app. And don’t even get me started on how many hands you may as well not even play because it’s just the computer players slinging cards and your hand is completely irrelevant, or how easy it is to bait the computer into shooting the moon in hearts. How often in a game of euchre does your opponents get dealt 4 alones in a row? How often do you get 3 alones in a row and the computer immediately calls off making your hand useless because it’s the 9, 10, queen and bowers in the other color? With this app, it’s all the time. It has no strategy, is easy enough to learn and predict, and, worst of all - and this is where the frustration really comes in - it’s solution to ‘balance’ is to deal you increasingly unplayable hands for extended durations until the computer has won a few games to make the win/loss percent back in acceptable variance.

This thing knows the rules of a game and that’s it. Want an app that actually has some elegance and strategy to its programming? Pffft, keep looking. Want an app that has a lot of card games with limited ads? Okay, cool, this one has that.

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