Sheepshead, the App 4+

I have played a lot of Sheepshead and spent a lot of time playing this app. A few comments 1) The AI is really good. I am always losing ground to it. Having a perfect memory helps. It is not nearly as good on 3 handed where I rarely pick, but almost always win. 2) The AI is super aggressive. I rarely have leasters. However, this makes sense because the picker wins 65% of the time. However, this makes this app bit boring as you never get to pick and sometimes if your ace gets called you lose for no good reason.

I binge played and found several systematic programming errors. The basic mechanics are ok, but the playmaking has errors. Plus, you seldom get to pick... seldom.
Often called ace does not get trumpted by a non partner even when that player has numerous trump. Almost always when called ace is trumpted, the trick taker leads trump next when there is no sane reason to do that. Often a non partner will smear to called suit trick when the next and last player is the ace partner and is for certain to take the trick. On a loaner, often the first lead from an opponent will be a trump card with no sane reason to do so. These are not strategic guess plays that do not work, they are systematic logic errors because the results are nearly always bad and the play nonsense.
And again... you seldom get to pick even if you are willing to pick with a thin hand. I kept track on a rainy day and picked 4 times out of 100 hands and 2 of those were thin hands.

Recently- I’ve seen my ‘team’ when we aren’t the picker act dumb and sacrifice points when later the have trump in had. For example; Comp picker sets hearts as partner. I win a round and choose hearts to show the partner. One comp player who has the 10 of diamonds plays the 10 of clubs effectively giving the picker an extra 10 points. When they could have played 10 of trump(which they played later in their hand that still went to the computer picker. And, they choose when they don’t even have a single queen in their hand. And loose catastrophically. But if they pass I could have a regular win. Or a close one. Which make the game fun. It’s not fun when I’m playing with.. computer that are distracted.
They aren’t doing a good job of giving p you points when you will obviously take the half and the partner has been revealed.