Pinochle card game featuring: - Double-deck and single-deck games - 4 players and 3 players - Single-player and rating-based online multiplayer - Really challenging computers. Pinochle is an exciting and challenging game of cards very popular in the U.S. This is the two handed version of the game. If you enjoy playing Rummy or Whist you will love Pinochle. Excellent Help file and the robot should prove a reasonable challenge even to those who have played before. I wanted to learn how to play Pinochle. This app worked well. One person found this helpful. 3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars. Double deck Pinochle is a 4 player card game. There are two teams of two players, with partners sitting across from each other. Points are scored in two ways: via 'melding' and 'trick taking'. What does Pinochle Lite do? Pinochle Lite gives you a taste of the full-featured Pinochle app also available in the Mac App Store. The lite version plays individual hands only rather than a full game, and does not record game stats. There is a link in the app menu to the full version in the Mac App Store. Download for MacOS - server 1 - Free.

For all three difficulty levels the cards are dealt completely at random to you and to the computer players. Computer players are not given any special advantage and they do not know what cards are in your hand or in any of the other players' hands. The difference between the easy, standard, and pro players is their memory of what cards have been played and their strategies used to choose their plays. If you are finding that the computer is beating you, you will likely benefit from understanding how the computer chooses its next move.

Bidding:	Generate a maximum willing bid by picking a random number. Increment the bid until it is above the maximum willing bid, then pass.
Declaring Trump:	Declare trump suit with whichever suit has the highest sum of card values.
Passing Cards To Declarer:	Pass a random set of cards.
Passing Cards As The Declarer:	Pass a random set of cards.
Trick-Taking:	Play a random legal card.

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Bidding:	Simulate many rounds with cards randomly dealt to standard strategy players. Set the maximum willing bid at the round score achieved in more than 83% of the simulations.
Declaring Trump:	Simulate many rounds with cards randomly dealt to standard strategy players. Pick the trump suit that resulted in the highest willing bid.
Passing Cards To Declarer:	First prefer not to pass any cards that result in a meld score for your hand. Then, prefer to first pass highest trump cards. Then prefer highest non-trump cards.
Passing Cards As The Declarer:	First prefer not to pass any cards that result in a meld score for our hand. Then, prefer to first pass non-ace cards that would make us void in a suit, then prefer non-trump kings, then non-trump queens, then jack of diamonds (except if just received from partner), then lowest non-trump cards, then lowest trump cards. Finally, if necessary, we would choose to pass the cards that contribute the least amount of points to our meld score.
Trick-Taking When Leading:	Remembering what has been played and what was shown during passing and melding, play the highest trump card that is guaranteed to take the trick. Otherwise, play the highest non trump card.
Trick-Taking When Following Lead:	If we don't have a play that can beat what is currently in the trick pile, then if our partner played the current highest trick card then we play our lowest counter. Otherwise we play our lowest card. If we do have play options that could beat what is currently in the trick pile, then we play our highest winning card unless we are playing last. If we are playing last and we can take the trick then we play our lowest card that can take the trick.

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Bidding:	Simulate many rounds with cards randomly dealt to standard strategy players. Set the maximum willing bid at the round score achieved in more than 75% of the simulations.
Declaring Trump:	Simulate many rounds with cards randomly dealt to standard strategy players. Pick the trump suit that resulted in the highest willing bid.
Passing Cards To Declarer:	First prefer not to pass any cards that result in a meld score for your hand. Then, prefer to pass highest trump cards (except 9's of trump). Then prefer aces. Then prefer 9s of trump. Then prefer queen of spades or jack of diamonds. Then prefer jacks. Then prefer nines. Then pass the cards that contribute the least amount of points to our meld score.
Passing Cards As The Declarer:	First prefer not to pass any cards that result in a meld score for our hand. Then prefer non-trump kings, then non-trump queens, then jack of diamonds (except if just received from partner), then lowest non-trump cards, then lowest trump cards. Finally, if necessary, we would choose to pass the cards that contribute the least amount of points to our meld score.
Trick-Taking When Leading:	First remove bad options: For each legal play, simulate the rest of the round 200 times with random deals of the unseen cards. If any play results in an average round score that is more than half a point lower than the highest average play, then remove it from the options considered. Remembering what has been played and what was shown during passing and melding, play the highest trump card that is guaranteed to take the trick. Otherwise, play the highest non trump card that is guaranteed to take the trick. Otherwise, play the lowest card.
Trick-Taking When Following Lead:	First remove bad options: For each legal play, simulate the rest of the round 200 times with random deals of the unseen cards. If any play results in an average round score that is more than half a point lower than the highest average play, then remove it from the options considered. If we don't have a play that can beat what is currently in the trick pile, then if our partner played the current highest trick card then we play our lowest counter. Otherwise we play our lowest card. If we do have play options that could beat what is currently in the trick pile, then we play our highest winning card unless we are playing the last trick card. If we are playing last and we can take the trick then we play our lowest card that can take the trick.