Great game
Mon Aug 12 2024 tlt1999If you like the game of Rook you will love this game! You can set the rules to rook game rules. My biggest and really only complaint is your playing computers and your partner will hold the rook card and cause you to have to waste trump cards and allow opponents to get unnecessary points before playing it. Also, the rook is supposed to be a trump card only! And should not be allowed to be thrown whenever! Only when you don’t have a color and are trumping and whenever trumps lead out. In this game the computer players throw the rook to pull cards when they have the color that was played. The computer that they pair you with is awful and rarely plays point cards when it’s obvious that the opponents are playing a smaller card than the high card that still hasn’t been played. Your partner on this game holds point cards and doesn’t throw them when it’s obvious the opponents are not getting the catch.
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Wed Mar 24 2021 TheTheorySolid rendition of the classic Rook game with tons of rule customization options. The UI is fairly clean (if a touch cramped on a phone screen). Unfortunately the AI struggles with certain common sense plays. Your partner understands feeding you points during the trump bleeding stage, but seems to lose track off trump during the late stages—especially if the other team made trump—and won’t feed you high cards before the other team’s last trump cards kick in. For example, there are two trump cards left with three turns to go. East leads, I play the highest card. North, my partner, doesn’t have suit and plays last—they know I’m taking the trick and I know this is the last trick we can take. They throw out a non-point card, then I see them having to play ones and 14s on the opponent’s trumps. While this type of situation is the most egregious and happens pretty regularly, there are other little quirks to their play that suggests the AI lacks any sort of complex strategy. So this is fine for casual time wasting here and there, and may be as good as we can get absent an official Rook app, but it can definitely be frustrating.
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Wed Oct 30 2024 qwedkcksksbd ak bikkthe AI isn’t great. they will hold a point card, like a 14, when playing it would set u and instead throw off. and that’s when u know their partner is gonna win the trick. they will hold best cards to the end, so if u have bid and already shown u have greens as an off suit and by the last trick the 13 is the boss. the will throw away the 13 on the 2nd to last trick and keep a 1 or 14 of another suit Even though u have already trumped that suit. there needs to be a way u can make your partner bid. the game can be on the line and they will fold at a low bid. the computer will keep a 10 (point card) and discard a 9 of their off suit and then lose the 10 during play. when they could just discard the 10 and win the last trick and get it. it’s keepingt it safe that way. discard points into the widow to not lose them. there’s a lot more but it’s ok game. can set your own rules.
You better like losing!!!
Fri Dec 09 2022 MaddogTexasI love this game, but I gave it one star because I like so many others get so frustrated because the game is completely stacked against you. Rarely do you ever get good hands whereas the opponents get them almost every hand. Second, your team mate bids like a complete idiot betting the moon with only the rook and no 1 or 14 in trump. No real player is going to bet that high with that hand. Third, you better like losing because you will nearly every hand. If there is a hand where the opponent over bids, their partner will be able to cover them almost every time which completely unrealistic. Also, you know you're playing a computer because they play hands a way a normal person could not possibly know. For instance, your opponent will win the bid and the very first trick they play of the hand they don't throw trump, but it just so happens to be the only color their partner doesn't have and can trump you. That is impossible to know in real life. Developers please start reading these reviews and fix the game. It isn't like only one comment, almost every review has the same complaint.
The rules aren’t Rook Rules
Sun Jul 04 2021 Gatlingun:)Very fun game. However, their needs to be some changes to Gameplay mechanics. The most obvious is when you throw away a counter to the nest. The bidder has to raise his/her bid. Example: bid - 120, threw away a red and yellow 5. Bid must go up 10 to 130. Also you never play Trump on the first hands. The A.I. throw Trump every time until everyone is out. You save your highest Trump so you can get the last Trick worth 20 points. There should be an option to play 4-8 players. Partners 2v2, 3v3, and 4v4. If 5 or 7 players then call for your partner. How that works is the bidder calls for the card they need (black bird, or Aces) and that round the bidder and the person they call on are partners.
I really hope the developer of this game sees my comment because this game is awesome just needs some quality of life improvements.
Fun to play but big issues
Sun Feb 17 2019 abbott1377I love Rook so this is definitely a fun app to play. Thanks for creating it.
HOWEVER, there are major issues with game play that will have you pulling your hair out, namely:
YOUR PARTNER WILL NEVER PLAY THE BIRD OR THE 1 SO YOU CAN STOP FISHING FOR THEM. They’ll throw away a 14 to an opponent’s 1 rather than throw the bird. INFURIATING
I’m not sure how dealing works, but I go through long stretches where opponents are dealt the bird and high cards in every color. Your opponents will frequently have complementary hands and will frequently point each other. Your partner will sometimes have a complementary hand to yours and may point you, but it’s much less frequent.
Your partner cannot be trusted to bid smartly and will frequently get y’all set. It’s VERY RARE that opponents behave the same way. It’s also a fairly accurate indication of who has the bird since I don’t think I’ve ever seen opponents bid above 125 without it.
This could all be because I love the game so much and hate losing, but I wish the dealing seemed a little less stacked and my partner played a little more strategically. That being said, thanks for creating this game that I spend WAY too much time playing.
Just a few more enhancements needed...
Sun Jul 23 2017 TheOldFossilThis is a great app but the level of excitement could be raised with the following options: (1) being able to choose your partner's level of aggressiveness. "Conservative" would eliminate complaints that your partner overbids you, the more aggressive settings would not let the bid go to the opponents for under 125 points & THROW POINTS when it's obvious you might take the trick; (2) allow your partner to call trumps when you take the bid and have an equal number of cards in each color. The penalty is that the bid is automatically raised by 5 points; (3) allow the option to "Shoot the Moon" and win the game if you play a perfect hand (perfect being defined as either taking every point, or to make it even more difficult, taking every trick). The last two options are popular in East Tennessee where I grew up playing Rook. Thanks again for developing this app!
I like the app but...
Sun Feb 17 2019 Lillouie969After having my partner make yet another stupefying move... I had to complain. The partner is waaaaay more conservative Than the opponents, and when the partner does win the bid, all to often they do something ridiculous like not holding a trump card with which to win the nest at the end. This wouldn’t be so bad if the computer opponents did it as well... they don’t, and I’m left with a partner that I used to completely ignore because it was pretty much usless. The partner should at least be as aggressive and as competent as the opponents because currently, it doesn’t hold a candle to the opponents... I’m still addicted to the game but I’d just seen one silly move to many...
Good game, tweak options have flaws
Mon Jun 03 2024 MrjombiThis is a very good adaptation of the Kentucky Discard game. The visuals are sharp, the game moves along quickly. But I do have a question regarding the theme options. It appears I should be able to change card backs and backgrounds. But none of these work on my iPad. There’s a restore purchase tab, that doesn’t work either and I have a message that says Failed to load products. Why do none of the themes work? You’re rating would be higher if they did as this seems a clear error. Can you update this so we can fiddle with card backs and themes? I asked you about the tweak options that show up as being available but don’t work and you said you were on it. You haven’t done that and you haven’t updated this in five years. Why lie to me, just say you have no interest in creating themes for the game.
Really a lot of fun but needs work
Mon Aug 27 2018 Unicorn lover#1First of course is multiplayer but until that is worked out needs to be customizable. Lots of variations on this game. My family in NC don’t even play with the Rook card. We always considered that adding too much luck. Instead whoever takes the last trick gets 20points and also the cards in the kitty. Also, playing to 300 is too short. Need to play to 500. We play “shoot the moon” for 240points plus a last gasp blind “shoot the moon” for 480. Still right now this is a lot of fun, but frankly Zeus is not a very good partner. He doesn’t live by our motto “you can’t them to the bank”
