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Pinochle Hd is a thoughtfully designed mobile game that blends accessible mechanics with steadily increasing challenge. Players place and manipulate objects to influence in-game elements, solve levels, and progress through curated stages. The experience favors experimentation and polish, with simple controls and satisfying feedback.
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Ratings & Reviews
Trump rules changed again
Sat Jun 24 2017 Joe Coty

I've played about thousand games of Pinocle with this app, I don't play much else except Tetris to pass idle moments. I do enjoy it overall, and also agree with most of the negative reviews. After a while it's easy to predict what your partner will play though it's often nonsensical. I rarely yield the bid to my partner, and it's best to be aggressive in bidding. My main complaint lately is that the game forces you to use trump if you can't play the given suit. I like to yield to my partner in the middle of the hand to allow him to play his Aces. It's disruptive if I can't throw some trash down and must pick up with trump.

Can not understand
Tue Jul 31 2018 mdelagasse

Why this AI refuses meld I do not understand. The AI takes the bid, I send the AI a marriage in spades (the trump that the AI called) along with two Jacks of Diamonds. Then the AI sends the two Jack of Diamonds back and ends up with a total meld of 190, instead of the 490 it could have had!!! The AI does this EVERY TIME I send good meld to it and refuses to send me a Jack of diamonds when I call diamonds trump and we end up with a single pinochle instead of a double run in diamonds. Something is really wrong here!!! Review part two: as incredible as the AI refusing meld, it also wastes aces. When I lead an off suit ace and the opposition has two or one of the aces, my AI has an ace and a ten, the AI plays the Ace! Great, I get ten points, wow who! Then I play a king and the player to my left beats it with his ten leaving my partner (the idiot AI) to follow it a ten BECAUSE the idiot sluffed it’s ace on mine!!! Review part three: three time now the AI will lead an off suit 10 and lose the trick then I find out it had two aces that it could have played. This app is frustrating in the extreme. But wait, it gets better. The opposition bids and plays brilliantly, go figure.

They won’t fix problems with game
Thu Mar 25 2021 myfb24111

This is pinnacle but the developers are so stupid that they don’t count single pinnacles. If you pass 3 legs of pinnacle, they don’t melt the single pinnacle. When you pass a pinnacle they will return either the queen of spades or the jack of diamonds rather than melt it. I have written them but they do nothing. Also when say you have a double ace of spades and the queen you will loose so you pass one ace so they could take the queen, they play the ace on your ace. Learned along time ago you can’t cure stupids. When you pass the two jacks of diamonds which make 300 pinnacle and the game passes them back in lieu of melting two marriages which looses the game and they do it every time this game has a real problem and they never fix any of the problems They even pass back the jacks or queens when they do have 300 pinnacle

47 chromosomes
Sun Mar 31 2024 47 chromosomes

Who the heck programed this game, had to be moron. No professional partner pinochle player would ever make such dumb moves that sets us. It’s better to hold back on your non-trump aces, instead of discarding them on my trick. I gave you the aces so i could get pass the other idiot team players after i played my aces. Long comment short, the idea of the game is to play to win not loose. You need to hire old school pinochle card players for advice, on how to program the game. It’s important to play for the last trick. Instead of continuing to lead trump after you take everyone else’s trump. By leading all the trump you put the ones were playing against in control of the game. I paid for the game but it doesn’t play any better than free.

Ok option
Sat Dec 19 2015 Booboobatpo

There are not many pinochle options. Of the ones I've tried this is my favorite, but there are some big issues. Your partner doesn't know what a pinochle is and will pass you back the jacks/queens. They will split up melds they had too to give you cards. It's very annoying. I also wish there was an auto finish if a player only has trump and nobody else has any. The bid only goes up by 10, no way to jump the bid. But for all the negatives it's still my favorite version available.

Fun and fast!
Sun Aug 13 2017 MsJongg

I had forgotten all about Pinochle since no one I know plays. I learned from my parents when I was 10 or so. One thing I remember is the option to "shoot the moon" for 1500 points if you thought you could take every trick. Not sure if that was a real rule or just one in our family. It was fun regardless. I love how fast the game moves. One suggestion I have is to have the cards in your hand separate black suits and red suits. For instance all your red hearts, then black spades, then red diamonds, then black clubs.

Was better before upgrades.
Sat Jan 24 2026 Privategeorgia

Despite your partner too often ends up playing like a beginner, this used to be a good game. I have had this app for quite some time. Now, it doesn’t even follow the traditional rules, such as requirements of using trump when you have it and when you’re out of whatever suit is played, or to lay a card to beat the highest card laid down. In addition, they seem to have added commentary to point out that your last game didn’t go so well. A shame.

Like the game, but.......
Sat Dec 18 2021 Chu-Chu Jackson

I like the game, but there are a couple of annoying things: 1) With the new iOS release, the game does not always launch when selected. 2) Why does the partner always give away their aces on the first book in the suit? No players does that. I could understand that strategy if it was the only card in the suit, but the partner plays their aces even if the have multiple cards left in the suit. 3) After playing a card, the cards to play are presented, then they shift. If I am in the process is selecting a card and it shifts, it causes selection of an incorrect card. Either implement an UNDO or stop the shift.

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