Bid Whist - Expert AI 4+
Play with your favorite rules
NeuralPlay, LLC
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Just learning Bid Whist? The AI will show you suggested bids and plays. Play along and learn. For experienced players, six levels of AI play are ready to challenge you!
Play with the Bid Whist rules you like against the challenging NeuralPlay AI.
Features include:
• Bid and play hints.
• Bid and play checker. Let the computer check your bids and plays throughout the game and point out differences.
• Detailed statistics.
• Undo.
• Claim. Claim the remaining tricks when your hand is high.
• Finish hand when set. Play quickly. When the hand is set, finish the hand early as there is no need to play the remaining tricks of the hand.
• Play review. Step through the play of the hand to review and improve your play.
• Replay hand.
• Skip hand.
• Offline play.
Rule customizations include:
• Kitty size. Choose: 6 cards, 5 cards, 4 cards, or no cards.
• Sport kitty. Choose how the kitty is revealed: to only the declarer, to all players when there is a trump suit, or to all players.
• High and low bid ranking. Choose whether high and low bids are equivalent at a given level or a low bid beats a high bid at a given level.
• Minimum bid. Set the minimum bid from one to four.
• Level only bidding. The declarer then chooses the trump and direction: High, Low (aces good), and Low Aces (bad).
• Notrump scoring. Choose whether or not notrump contracts are worth double the points of suit contracts.
• Boston scoring. Choose whether or not to score double points for Boston bids.
• Overtrick scoring. Choose whether overtricks are scored as one point or no points.
• Joker play during notrump contracts. Choose how jokers must be played during notrump contracts: can be discarded anytime one does not have the suit lead; must be discarded as soon as one does not have the suit lead; may be played anytime but will not capture the trick; or must be placed in the kitty or exchanged with the kitty.
• Two of Spades. Choose to make the Two of Spades a high trump.
• Game over. Choose whether the game ends at a predetermined number of points or after a certain number of hands.
What’s New
Version 4.41
• New option to show an AI estimate of the number of tricks that will be taken for each card with play hints. See settings to enable.
• UI improvements.
• AI improvements.
Ratings and Reviews
Very solid Bid Whist App
I definitely appreciate the customization. Two improvements: 1. Would love an option to pay for the app, and not have ads. 2. I believe it was mentioned in another review, but have a condition (or option) set that if either team gets to -7, they lose as well, rather than allowing for infinite negative scores.
Any plans for statistics in the works?
Developer Response ,
Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Bid Whist. Thank you for your review. Excellent suggestions. We have just released an update with: an in app purchase to remove ads; detailed statistics; and a fix for game over at minus game points. Thank you again for the helpful feedback.
Adjustments
It could use a little upgrade for example my partner when I had a bid my partner plays the Trump back to me. Well, we only ones who have Trump therefore leaving me vulnerable to the opponent turning a book which he could’ve cut if he had held onto the Trump. In other words, we should have them in a crossfire. He shouldn’t push trumps back on when we’re the only ones who have trumps and my number two flex,in a no Trump, even though he might have a winner, he needs to get out of my way because he might not have another winning card in his hand and then he let me vulnerable to the other players,
In other words, if he doesn’t have a couple of one in cards to get back to me or if he’s not able to get back to me, he should get out of my way. Let me run the boy.
AI needs improving
I enjoy this app! HOWEVER, the AI needs to be updated. Example…when winning a bid, your partner(computer) should always play their best cards(Aces in other suits, etc), before giving you back the lead.
In NO Trumps, you NEVER play the tops off a suit(aces)unless you can control the suit. Meaning, Don’t lead with ace if you don’t have king, queen or jack. Play a low card, and maybe partner has king, queen etc.
Also, If I win the bid, and my partner has no more trump cards, HIS VERY NEXT play should ALWAYS be a weak card in his strong suit. This is strategy to let me know he may have an ace in that suit.
I hope this makes sense, coming from someone who has been playing bid whist his whole life. Which I learned from my grandfather’s generation, who played in bid whist card clubs practically, his whole life. 😉
Developer Response ,
Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Bid Whist. Thank you for your review. And thank you for the helpful comments. We are continuing to make improvements to the AI.
The AI on level 3, uses rules and should better lead back winners as you describe.
The AI on levels 4+ uses a Monte Carlo simulation to determine the best plays. We find this AI plays better overall than the rules we have on level 3. However, we have found some odd plays where it did not lead back correctly.
In version 2.70, we have made adjustments to make the AI on levels 4+ lead back winners better.
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Information
- Seller
- NeuralPlay, LLC
- Size
- 28.9 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 NeuralPlay, LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Remove Ads $9.99