This game can be rigged

I know this may just be bad luck, but the opponents who are bots always tend to receive the bowers whenever they are the ones who are dealing. It seems a bit rigged in that sense, and there are other situations where it feels like the game is working against you to make your average more 50/50. The opponent went alone with clubs being trump, and led an off suit ace of diamonds; to which my teammate played the 10 of hearts(implying he had no diamonds to follow suit or no trump to take the trick), and I also had no trump so I threw out a random low off suit card. The very next trick the opponent who was going alone led the right(Jack of clubs); then my teammate followed suit with the king of clubs. If my teammate were behaving like a normal person who knows the game of euchre, he would have played that King in the first trick to take the loner hand away, the opponent ended up getting all 5 tricks giving them the four points. This game can be very rigged, and there are many other examples like it This 3 star rating is me being generous and because I love the game of Euchre so much.

Not Very Well Done.

I have played this game for over sixty-five years, and while this version might be OK for someone learning, it lacks depth and, by my initial experience, it calls up trump too easily, thus allowing for opposing teams to “euchre” the trump-making team. Most people who have played extensively will agree that so much success is the luck of the deal, but there are little innuendos of both skill and strategy that this game misses. A game called Super Euchre, while not perfect, is better. If the developers could get feedback on games being played, they could train the programming computer to refine the moves of both teams. Also if, by the fourth trick, the hand is lost or won, and the other team has a trick so that a fifth play is pointless, the cards should be thrown in. That could have an override if the game is being used by beginners.

Terrible play

The game is obviously rigged against you. The opponents pick up trump when they deal greater than 90% of the time, whereas I have to pass greater than 75% of the time usually due to being 4 suited with low cards. The opposing team will pick up any jack while they are dealing no matter what they have in their hand. They could have the left, nine and they will still win the hand greater than 50% of the time. When your partner goes alone, they always lead with an off suit no matter the value. On one hand my partner went alone with the right, left, ace, king, and nine of clubs. Due to rotation it was his turn to lead and he played the nine. He was trumped by both the ten and the queen. Why would the game be programmed that way especially since your opponents never lead off low or off suit, always with the right. How the cards routinely come up for the opponents is statistically impossible. Once again, terrible play.

Computer players

The computer opponents continually miss play trump. They over trump their partners when they don’t have to. Example: the first partner plays the left bower and the second computer opponent plays the right when they could have sluffed. Then they lead out a looser. Example two: computer opponent leads the right bower and the opponent has the 9 and A, they play the A when it is clear the K is still in play. Why would you ever play the A when you could play the 9 even if you didn’t know the K was still in play. You would always play the lower card if your partner has clearly won the trick. I’m sure in your programming the computer is suppose to make errors but this is a little ridiculous. Over trumping the your partners left bower with the right when you don’t have to play trump at all. Please, it just taints the realism of the game

It’s called Euchre for a reason. Please fix this!

The developers have incorrectly made it say you “lost the hand” whenever your opponent is successful in his calling up trump. You cannot lose a hand you do not call up, therefore your opponent merely wins that hand— period. If you fail to min the majority of tricks in a hand you have called up, you are said “ to be euchered.” I am tired of seeing I lost the hand whenever my opponent makes his trump. Also, I agree with some other’s opinions, the distribution of cards is not often realistic when the same “loner” hands occur far too often, and also your partner often over-trumps you when they are not trump tight. But otherwise, play speed is okay and counting is accurate.

Update… July 2024. Getting worse (Even more)

Mind you there was never an option to bypass the ridiculously over done graphics. (If I wanted to deal cards, I would break out a real deck) but now after a had you cannot even just hit the deal button, I know, it’s actually Continue, you have to wait to be told what the score was. Add to that the overall game runs about 20% slower. I just want a mind numbing game to break the monotony. Not graphics and waiting for a score. I would pay for a version that let you skip the silliness, but only if the game had all the flaws removed too. Latest updates give the opposition a near twenty to one go alone advantage. Both opponents have gone alone twice in the last five games. No matter what I and my “partner”pick as trump, if we play ANY high card of a non-trump suit, the other team trumps it. The logic is highly flawed in this game.

If you play euchre, DON’T WATE YOUR TIME HERE

Realizing this is a computer simulation of the card game there are still points that make this unrealistic and frustrating. 1. Cards not shuffled after each hand. I realize that seems trivial but again if you play the game, this is essential. 2. Can’t change partners. The bot your given is a flat out novice and makes foolish bids while you sit with winning hands. My final straw was my partner bot bids being euchred 3 times in a row. 3. Constantly, more often than any real world odds, the bots you are playing against will turn over a bower during the deal, order up or call up, even though their playing hand turns out to be stacked. One or the other always has the better off suit cards or trumps your teams ace. This becomes the most frustrating factor to this game than any other. This is just a few of the failures I have observed while trying enjoy the game on the app. If the designers address the algorithm to mirror real world game play, change up partners, mimic how the game is played with better odds for outcomes, I would reconsider putting the app back on. Hopefully the endless sponsors take note of a dissatisfied user because I certainly will not pay for the removal of ads with this app as it plays today.

Going Alone Trap

Overall I found this app to be a fun way to play Euchre, but ultimately ended up deleting it because of how many times I’d go alone only to lose the final round because the computer just so happened to have an Ace of the same suit as my King that gets played first (my last card is always a King when this happens). At first, I felt like it was just unlucky, until it kept happening over and over to the point I could start predicting that I’d lose the final round because I had a King and I knew the computer would magically have the Ace of the same suit. It honestly feels like, to prevent you from getting 4 points, the app would spawn the correct Ace in the computer’s hand to force you to lose.

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