Spades - 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 Spades? 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 the popular variants: Partnership Spades, Mirror Spades, Suicide Spades, Whiz Spades, Solo Spades (Cutthroat), and more.
Features include:
• Undo.
• Replay hand.
• Skip hand.
• Offline play.
• Detailed statistics.
• Bid and play hints. Uncertain of what to bid or play? See what the computer would do!
• Bid and play checker. Let the computer check your bids and plays throughout the game and point out differences.
• Play review. Step through the play of the hand to review and improve your play.
• Six levels of computer AI to provide challenges for beginning to advanced players.
• Unique thinking AI to provide a strong AI opponent for different rule variations.
• The Rest Are Mine (TRAM). Claim the remaining tricks when your hand is high.
Rule customizations include:
• Jokers. Choose to play with jokers and/or deuces as high trump.
• Passing. Choose to pass up to two cards to partner on nil and blind nil bids.
• Nil. Choose to allow nil, play without nil, or play with a zero bid.
• Blind nil. Choose to play with blind nil bids when behind by 100, behind by 200, always, or never.
• Nil/blind nil bonus. Choose the nil/blind nil bonus as 100/200 or 50/100 points.
• Blind bids. Choose to play with blind bids when behind by 100, behind by 200, always, or never.
• Minimum bid. Choose the minimum team bid to be three, four, or no minimum.
• Bag penalty. Set the bag penalty to 10 bags/100 points, 5 bags/50 points, or no penalty.
• Bag (overtrick) points. Set the bag points to be 1 point, 0 points, -1 points, or -10 points.
• Failed bid penalty. Choose the failed bid penalty as ten times bid, ten times tricks short, or no penalty.
• Failed nil overtricks. Choose whether a nil bidder's overtricks are bags, are not bags, or are applied to partner's bid.
• 10-for-200. Choose the bonus for a combined team bid of 10 or more.
• Initial lead. Choose the initial lead to be left of dealer, Two of Clubs leads, or everyone plays lowest club.
• Trump first trick. Choose whether or not trumping on the first trick is allowed.
• Spades can be lead anytime. Choose whether or not spades must be broken before being lead.
• Must beat. Choose whether or not a player must beat the winning card on the trick if able to.
What’s New
Version 3.50
• Bid analyzer. New option to analyze bid success chances. When asked, the AI will show you an estimate of the chance of bid success. See settings to enable.
• Card counter. New option to show the cards played during play. See settings to enable.
• UI improvements.
• AI improvements.
Ratings and Reviews
Needs Stats
I like this game a lot. Pretty fast moving. But it needs to have a way to save one’s statistics. Otherwise I’d have rated it 5 stars.
Developer Response ,
Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Spades. Thank you for your review. We have recently added detailed statistics. Thank you for the suggestion.
Fun but often frustrating
The AI partner often plays against you and causes you to lose. For example, if the AI is the last one to play on a trick, and you have played the highest card, instead of playing a lower card and letting you take the trick, saving its higher card to win another trick, it will often play the higher card or trump you to win that trick. This undermines the team because you could have won two tricks, but it played against you and you only won one. This often keeps you from making bid when you could have, if it had not played against you. Also, when you bid nill, the AI will often lead a trick with the lowest card it has instead of a higher card, which costs you the nill bid. For example, the AI leads with a 3 of clubs, East and West play the 2 and 4 of clubs, and you have to throw whatever club is in your hand and it's obviously going to be higher and you lose the nill bid on a 5 of clubs. Then the next hand the AI throws a higher card which would have saved the nill bid had it lead with that. Overall, it's a very fun game, and hopefully the AI can learn to understand strategy and teamwork. That will make it even more fun!
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your review. And thank you for the detailed feedback. The AI, on levels 4+, uses an advanced Monte Carlos Simulation method to determine the best bids and plays. This results in some randomness. Whether the AI will be trying to take tricks or throw tricks away will depend on factors such as the total bid and the number of tricks remaining in addition to the team bids and individual player bids. We are continuing to work on improvements. Glad to hear it is fun overall!
Not bad - but not very smart AI.
Hint to doing well - always plan on getting 2 additional tricks to whatever you are bidding when your AI partner is going nil. Your AI partner will at times lead small to cover your nil - for no reason, get used to that, but if you just hit the step-back, it will often see the error if its way and re-lead with a strong card. The AI opponents often place way too much value on getting you to take extra tricks - don’t worry about it - just protect your partner’s nil and you’ll be fine.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your review and helpful analysis. The AI uses an advanced Monte Carlo Simulation to determine its plays at the higher levels. The simulation is performed again so when you undo and give it another chance it may notice the mistake. We are working on AI improvements. We have some improvements in the next release.
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Information
- Seller
- NeuralPlay, LLC
- Size
- 28.4 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
- © 2024 NeuralPlay, LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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