Pinochle HD Negative Reviews

Pinochle HD App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Pinochle HD app received 37 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Pinochle HD? Can you share your negative thoughts about pinochle hd?

Pinochle HD for Negative User Reviews

✓ This game has issuesI paid for the full version of this game and the multiplayer never works.....I’m sure at this point that it never has worked and is a gimmick to get your money. The gameplay against the computer is ok, but don’t rely on your computer partner to help you! That computer might be the worst pinochle player in the history of the game!!.BombpigVersion: 1.6.1

✓ Decent single player, but could be betterI do not play the multiplayer, just single. The computer AI is decent, but has flaws like other reviewers have listed. However the price is right and it allows me to play the game when no one else is around..Pinterestaddict2Version: 1.6.1

✓ It's okay.The partner gives you back the trump you gave them and then you lose the hand. I don't get why the partner is giving you back all trump. Stupid programming. Otherwise fun if you take the bid. Algorithm off. Always passes a card back when they would have had pinochle. Or a run. Always passes wrong cards. After a long time still gives back the other half of pinochle. Programming wrong. Fix it plz!!!! When will you fix this constant giving up of pinochle..SemprFi79Version: 1.6.1

✓ Fix Passing AlgorithmMy partner shouldn't be passing me junk when he's keeping aces, especially if he doesn't know when to play them. Also it drives me crazy when my partner takes bid and places aces and tens of other suits before playing his available winning trump (ie AS, AS, AD, AD, 10S when spades is trump). Algorithm should say play sure wins before probable wins, even if sure win is a 9 and probable win is an ace (although it wouldn't kill him to save a trump card for last trick...). Love the game but it seems like it's gotten worse. Don't love latest version..Sandbags7Version: 1.6.1

✓ Gameplay just okay, maybe bugsBugs: Achievements do not work. Real disappointment. Pretty sure that on some occasions, the player who takes a trick is not the one who won it (trump is ignored by the game), though this is rare. 'Hard' difficulty seems to mean 'incompetent partner.' Partner, when winning the bid and calling clubs/hearts, doesn't have the sense to pass back two legs of Pinochle to the player who's holding diamonds/spades. Sloppy AI and bugs...but just about the only good option for free..RollyBendenVersion: 1.6.1

✓ This is not how you play Pinochle!The update was atrocious! Passing of cards does not make sense. Playing a 10 card to flush out the Ace is stupid. I just played a game where my partner called Spades trump and then passed me back 2 Jack of Diamonds when he had 2 Queen of Spades! Are you kidding me? On top of that he kept 4 loser cards including a King and 10 of Diamonds. Crazy! Why play this game when strategy is no longer involved and you end up being frustrated and trying to figure out what nonsensical move your partner is going to do next! Not fun anymore..Mema JonesVersion: 1.6.1

✓ A waste of moneyThe bidding, the passing is horrible! My "partner" makes impossible bids (even out bids me) then passes me 1/2 of a run while holding on to the other half or passes 2 Aces it needs for 100 Aces. It is obvious that whomever programmed the game has never played. Don't waste your money. My partner also passes either the 2J of diamonds or the 2Q of spades needed for double pinochle while holding on to 2J/2Q respectively. Very annoying!!!.HddathvxdjihgfdfgczshgfVersion: 1.6.1

✓ Can’t play with friendsInstalled because it said Game center was supported and you could play with friends. It says: “Adding Game Center friends is no longer supported”.ChooseanyncknameVersion: 1.6.1

✓ BuggyThis version forces you to play trumps when the rules allow you to dodge - even forces you to overtrump partner's winning non-trump hand. Have informed writers but no response..Purple PeterVersion: 1.6.1

✓ Too many double runs by computerI used to love this game, except latey it seems like the computer team is really written to win most games...in one game the computer team can get as many as 3-4 double run hands! Why so many for it and I wait and wait for a double run, that rarely comes?!?! It isn’t fun to see the computer constantly getting double runs! Why play when you know at the beginning of a hand you will lose? Just not fun anymore!!.Manitoba JimVersion: 1.6.1

✓ Fun game very bad playersI wish you would program this game to play using the rules. Partner will not pass aces but passes an unrelated loser queen, why? Partner just passed back a jack of diamonds while playing a run of spades missing out on 4 points of possible score. We lost the game because of that and poor playing. Please fix this game as it is a potential winner. I would love to recommend to my friends but won't with these problems. Thanks..JcJ39Version: 1.6.1

✓ Good but not GreatWith a couple of small changes, this app could have been great. The achievement feature doesn't work at all. There is no tutorial mode or pop up for scoring scheme, etc. the passing logic seems faulty ( but that may be because I'm a novice.) But yet quite fun and a new card game to me so that is a delight..ImauuruVersion: 1.5.1

✓ I am embarrassed on my partner's behalfSeriously. She doesn't know how to pass, and I hate giving her the lead. The table in general is VERY conservative in bidding, which takes the fun/challenge out of the game. I do like the layout and look of the game, but the mechanics aren't there yet. I personally would also like the option of being able to see the last trick, because sometimes it animates through too quickly. Hoping for updates and improvements..MathiasmaasVersion: 1.6.1

✓ QuestionableI am a very experienced pinochle player and find the strategy very questionable. The app crashes continually, sometimes fatal as one player has too many cards. Save your money!.BlairBear22Version: 1.5.1

✓ PinochleThis is an exciting game. I like the speed you can quickly play and the display is attractive and easy to view and use. However, my partner always throws away his aces when I am leading and he has backup cards. Also, the games allows players to not trump if they don't have the suit being led or not made to beat with a higher card or trump. Very frustrating but the rest of the game is great. If these errors are corrected, your game would be 5 stars..Pino friendVersion: 1.6.1

✓ Can not understandWhy 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..MdelagasseVersion: 1.6.1

✓ I play this often but it needs some work.It would be nice if there was an option for a federal when you are dealt five nines. Also if you outscore the other team but they make their bid and also pass 1499 it shows them as winning..McmantimVersion: 1.6.1

✓ Needs workVery basic not a challenge, the game I was taught bid starts at 50, you have the ability to tell your partner you have twenty/thirty by jumping bid by two or three this way you push the bid to the power of your hand so if you have a hand to catch 28 you push and then go up more but you play to the limits, and lastly you need to catch 20 to keep your meld and you need twenty to register your meld....Jag908474Version: 1.6.1

✓ MoronsWhoever wrote this program certainly DOES NOT UNDERSTAND HOW TO PLAY THIS GAME! To the "avid" pinochle player back on n the day", you clearly have forgotten every rule when passing to a partner. Power passes first, then let the trump caller pass the junk off to make meld. If you're holding onto an ace, or your partner passes it back, you hold it to cover their losers. ESPECIALLY if they meld losers. This game is way to frustrating for me to play anymore. It doesn't matter what trump is called, the computer partner ALWAYS passes trying to land the double pinochle. SOOOOOOO FRUSTRATING!!!!.ApptrainVersion: 1.6.1

✓ BugsThis is a decent way to get started or refresh your skills, but there could be lots of improvements. At least once a hand, the computer gives the trick to the wrong person. It is annoying. A good tutorial would be nice and when adding up the scores it would be nice to be able to see the run down of points win. Will probably be searching for a better app..Iish529Version: 1.6.1

✓ Terrible game with zero strategy thanks to developerIt’s clear that the developer does not have a full understanding of pinochle. Why would you pass your partner two diamond jacks when you have a run in spades with 2 queens? After all, isn’t the name of the game pinochle? Also, why does my “partner” consistently lead with tens when the aces have not been played? If you enjoy pinochle and know how to play the game I would not recommend buying this game. Even if they dropped the price I still would not recommend this game..JanmusiqueVersion: 1.6.1

✓ PinochleIn the past I have liked playing with this app. Lately it has been bidding very high, 800, With very little meld, when it was not even needed to bid at all to meld out. Also when passing meld (4cards) I will pass the bidder two Jack's of diamonds, or two queens of spades, and they will return what they would need to make double pinochle, and then not have enough meld to make their bid. I am disgusted with the app, and will use it until these flowers are fixed..NanastreamerVersion: 1.6.1

✓ PinochleWhoever wrote the program for this game should be horse whipped and has never played pinochle, when ever you play double deck pass you always pass trump , aces and then pinochles and unless you have more than 4 trump cards you do not keep trump. I have been playing double deck pinochle since I was 7 years old, I am now 68 so I think I know how to play this game. Please fix this game..DonDee79Version: 1.6.1

✓ FrustratingDoes the person who made this app know what a “pinochle” is? It’s the queen of spades and jack of diamonds. So when my “partner” calls spades trump and there’s a possibility they’ll have the queen, I send them the jack of diamonds to make a “pinochle”. They send the jack back when they have the queen. That’s 4 points and games are lost that shouldn’t be if there were 4 more meld. I want a new partner or teach my current partner to play better. I WANT A NEW COMPUTER PARTNER!!!!!!!!.QueenMum57Version: 1.6.1

✓ Just okay AIComputer partner doesn't seem to recognize a pinochle (it passed me a jack of diamonds so he could keep a marriage, rather than keeping it for double pinochle - it won the bid and melded the two queens in spade marriages). Other than that pretty good..SteveALOVersion: 1.6.1

✓ What a let down!This is a terrible version of Pinochle. My main gripe is that, if your partner wins the bid and calls trump and you pass over 4 trumps, your partner will send BACK 4 trumps, meaning that he/she doens't meld a family! I'm sorry that is not Pinochle as I have ever played it. I wish I hadn't wasted my money..FelicitysmallVersion: 1.4.2

✓ They won’t fix problems with gameThis 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.Myfb24111Version: 1.6.1

✓ Programming is offCurious as to why the opposing team wins when my end game score is higher I have seen it time and time again when I have a final score of 5400 points to my opponent score is 5100, but they are declared the winner Does not sound like Hoyle or the basic rules of the game Appears to have many bugs in this game.SbenicVersion: 1.6.1

✓ Need to correct passing feature!If passing features would be corrected, I would give this app 5 stars. Partner should not be allowed to pass back cards received In a pass, especially when they pass back a jack or queen that would make a pinochle in partners hand. Read the rule book and fix..CDRasVersion: 1.6.1

✓ Not realisticFar too many runs and double pinocles. Doesn’t happen in real play. Opposing team almost always get a run and 4 aces when they get the bid. Also not enough settings. Cannot set number of cards to pass , auto play when final tricks are sure..Tennis8Version: 1.6.1

✓ It's Too BadThis isn't even a reasonable facsimile of pinochle. It's an entirely different game but unfortunately it's the best one available. I play a few games and then delete it in total frustration and disgust. Months later I try it again in hopes that they have improved it enough to be pinochle. So far all I see is more bad reviews and no bug fixes. I'm thinking that maybe I could enjoy it if I think of it as a different game entirely, maybe called "Pseudo Pinochle" instead of "Pinochle HD"..JLLMDVersion: 1.6.1

✓ Flash back to home pageI have download it and pay the dollar 99 for the Pinochle HD and every time I go to open it it flashes to the board and then goes straight to my home screen, I have emailed them and I have gotten no reply yet. My girlfriend is also having the same problem, so we are not enjoying the game right now..PahrumpianbhgVersion: 1.6.1

✓ MehI like to play the game, but I would refuse to play with someone that played like the computer. If you bid clubs don't pass pinochle cards...they go the other way. Pisses me off...my partner is holding the king I need and passes a queen of spades...also... Playing a queen is usually an indication to your partner that you hold the ace...who taught you the game?.Monoc3Version: 1.6.1

✓ No stars:(HOW DO YOU TURN OFF THE STOOPID SETTING FOR THIS GAME?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? COULD YOU PEOPLE PLEASE change your game's strategy in playing out a hand!!!!!????? horrible. throwing out aces early just as a point in play causing lost tricks later. Far to often my "partner" gives up an ace to feed a point, only to lose a trick or two later because the ace COULD HAVE BEEN USED to beat the 10 that inevitably is played. I would rather my "partner" lose an ace occasionally because it might have been played than to continuously lose tricks/hands/games because it should have been held to win a trick later. I have lost hands/games because of this stupid strategy to toss away an ace as simply a point to be fed. is this so hard to do???? poor strategy!! WORSE! NO STRATEGY THAT I CAN SEE. also. the odds of getting double pinochle with 4 people playing is 0.25%. why does it happen 3-5 times per game? the game is horrible. wish there was another option out there. anybody read these reviews????.J.m.v. MeVersion: 1.6.1

✓ Like the game, but.......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..Chu-Chu JacksonVersion: 1.6.1

✓ FrustratedI quit playing the passing game because the passed cards were so wrong. Now I'm just frustrated with the whole game in general. I just played two games and neither my partner nor I had a decent hand the whole two games but the computer partners had either a run, a hundred aces, double pinochle or some other mit-full of meld even when it was dumped. It just seems like the cards are stacked..MaryjodeVersion: 1.6.1

✓ Ok optionThere 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..BooboobatpoVersion: 1.6.1

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