Pinochle Gold App Reviews

I have been playing double pinochle with no passing cards. My partner consistently overbids and we do not make the bid. My partner gives a meld bid of 20 and only has 8 to 10 points in meld In double deck the meld bid begins with 20. Almost every hand will have 8 to 10 points East and west have such goods hands each time that it is as if they were allowed to pick their cards. When I lead a trump my partner does not play the ace and allows the opponent to win that round. This also allows the opponent to play the aces so when it is my turn to play aces they usually are trumped. When I bid and east and west pass, my partner overbids and it escalates. When I eventually pass, we lose the round.

Its pretty good. There are a couple of flaws, like when I have passed four Aces, my partner will pass back one of the aces. Same happened when I sent over queens, so there were eight queens and they passed one back. Today I passed over double pinochle and they did not have a straight, and they passed one of the jacks back? Or I will call a suit, and they will keep four aces leaving me without a full straight. Much worse after the upgrade.

Partner sends crazy passed cards, make no sense. He held onto an ace, queen and jack of clubs, passed me hearts and spades. The clubs would have given me a double run and a thousand aces. Stupid.

I can play this all day. Its fun. But you should be able to touch a cad and see its the wrong one and be able to drag it off screen before its played to change cards. Sometimes you can touch the wrong card before it plays but there is nothing you can do about it and can cost you the whole hand. The cards are small so you should have a way of changing a misclick.

Whoever wrote this never played serious cards or doesnt know how to meld!!!!! I have seen my partner have double queens and throw it away to keep jacks round, same with double kings and once had double jacks and dbl pinochle and threw a Q of spades away to keep an odd suit marriage. Another thing is my partner may have 3 aces of a suit and I meld aces round and instead of leading to me after her leads are spent she leads an other suit or I show the 4th ace my partners trump, she has the other three and would lead their 3 aces and take my ace instead of leading to me. I bought this thinking I would get better and more play, I was wrong. Should this read beginners Pinochle?

There is a serious strategic flaw in the program. If the bid winner calls spades or diamonds as trump, his partner should always pass the queens of spades and jacks of diamonds that he has. Your program will often have the partner keep a queen of spades or jack of diamonds to complete their 60 queens or 40 jacks. That is bad playing, since the queen of diamonds or jack of diamonds in the bidders hand will most often result in higher points. This program still has the same flaw. No doubt the programmer has never actually played pinochle with real people. There are other flaws as well.

This game Is okay as far as it goes. The AI is pretty pathetic, though, and will frustrate folks who know how to play pinochle. My partner is extremely reluctant to give up a pointer to me but loves giving them to the other team (Im talking throwing a 9 to my Ace when it has a King, but playing a 10 to opponents Ace when it has a 9). My partner also is terrible at bidding (bids me up to high 30s with nothing in hand), routinely breaks up double pinochle (passes parts even when he/she bid in Diamonds or Spades), and generally passes garbage even when it has parts of a family. Its a bit like playing with my sister-in-laws mentally handicapped friend from Nevada. Or like playing with a seven-year-old.

I question how the shuffle is done. Opponents always have quality hands. This is not the reality of the game for me. Losing interest rapidly.

This is a good app, but sometimes my partner doesnt make the smartest decision. Also, it would be cool if you could pick your partner. Like have different avatars. You could have multiplayer too.

Since the upgrade, which I do like, my game keeps freezing up! I play it every day, and I am very frustrated!!! I have reinstalled it, but it just froze up again! Help!!!!

Used to be my go to app for pinochle. Since upgrade, the ok button doesnt work. Renders the app unusable.

Since the upgrade there is constant freezing and nothing seems to help! Looks like a downgrade would help, so we can enjoy the game again!

Good work, very prompt response to annoying game freeze.

Best Pinochle game on any platform that I have tried. The AI knows how to “sacrifice” a trick, which most card games do not, and it makes the playing much more pleasurable. The author is also extremely responsive to feature requests and bug reports. I have lost a hundred or more hours of my life to this great app...

Thx for helping us get around the freeze that was an awesome resolution to the freeze. Now the app works perfectly. I cant think of any more improvements so just surprise us. I play the game pretty close to everyday. If you have the game bid whist let me know.

Such a poor team of programmers! I have emailed them close to 20 times requesting fixes for the most basic of "partner errors". North retains valuable trump cards (making elementary meld expectations impossible ), and overbids with no meld potential !! No one would play with a human partner who made these kinds of PROFOUND mistakes. In addition, I have emailed this company ("Fishdog") more than 20 times ...... With no response and no fixes, no explanations, no responses. I promised Fishdog a bad review if they didnt fix (or improve - So here it is. My review: SAVE YOUR MONEY - THIS ONE IS BEYOND BAD -- I am going to request my money back (perhaps thats the only language Fishdog speaks ?)

Well done game. Love it. Very nice graphical updates in latest release. Thanks for a great game !

I am furious! I loved this App and played it all the time until a week ago. That was when I installed the suggested upgrade with "bug fixes". STUPID ME! Now the game crashes every time I try to open it. I emailed the developer and have received no response, yet. I want my $3.99 back! Maybe they will read this and finally contact me with a fix!

Very amateur in many respects. If youre an advanced player and looking for a challenge, dont bother. Many stupid mistakes that makes you want to punch the screen!!

"Shoot the Moon" works great. Great star and moon graphic! Im enjoying it.