Five Hundred
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About Five Hundred
500 is a popular bid and trick taking card game originating from the USA played by four players in teams of two, with partners sitting opposite each other. It is especially popular in Australia and New Zealand. The game is called 500 because the objective of the game is to be the first team to reach 500 points.
Player bid on how many tricks they can take based upon the hand dealt to them and the highest bid gets the chance to win the hand and the points.
In this version you have a computer partner playing against two computer opponents. The characteristics of your partner can be configured to suit your style of play. Your partner can be an aggressive bidder, moderate or conservative, as your desire.
Other options include
- NEW!!! Ability to REVIEW the previous hand, kitty and bids made
- Ability to tailor the playing of Misere
- Ability to tailor the rules according to local preferences
- Large Card display for smaller screens
- Ability to control game speed
- Ability to turn on/off game sounds
- Option to play 3 or 5 card kitty
Here are some tips on playing the game...
- Don't forget that when there is a trump suit, the highest trump is the joker , followed by the jack of the trump suit (right bower), the other jack of the same colour (left bower), then Ace, King, Queen, 10, 9, etc. down to 5 or 4.Therefore, if say, hearts are trumps, then the jack of diamonds in considered to be a heart for that hand. If diamonds are trumps, the jack of hearts becomes a diamond, conversely. This does not apply for a No Trumps or Misere Bid, naturally.
- The minimum number of tricks that can be bid is six. If you bid say "six hearts", you are saying that with your partner's help, you will try to win at least six tricks with hearts as trumps. How many hearts say would you need to feel confident of making a six hearts bid? There are plenty of thoughts about the bidding process available online, and you need to take the strength of your offsuit into account, ie. do you have many aces?, but as a general guide, perhaps 4 hearts would be a good start.
- If you win the bid, you get to pick up kitty, and need to discard any 3 (or 5) cards from the 13 available to you. As a guide, it is often a good idea to try to rid yourself of an offsuit of which you have no high cards, so that if that suit is led by the opposition during the hand, you are in a position to trump them if required.
- During play, if you are trying to make a bid, it is often a good idea to try to extract trumps from the opposition early in the hand, so that when it comes to playing your offsuit later, they are not in a position to trump your aces. But if you are trying to stop a bid being made, it is also a good idea to not lead trumps back to the opposition if you can help it, try to keep the precious trumps for trumping offsuit.
- When you can't follow the suit that was led, are you aren't looking to trump, you are said to be discarding. You should try to discard a low card from your strongest offsuit first, and your partner will pick up on this and believe that this suit is perhaps the best to lead to you later.
For many more tips on all things 500, a good website to visit is
http://www.specialksoftware.com/#500
To play 500 online against other people, try...
http://www.juliannegiffin.com
If you have any issues, please email
trowe67@gmail.com
and an update may be supplied.
Note to Samsung users who can't seem to access any menus, that these can be accessed by long pressing the bottom right "recent apps" button on the device.
Player bid on how many tricks they can take based upon the hand dealt to them and the highest bid gets the chance to win the hand and the points.
In this version you have a computer partner playing against two computer opponents. The characteristics of your partner can be configured to suit your style of play. Your partner can be an aggressive bidder, moderate or conservative, as your desire.
Other options include
- NEW!!! Ability to REVIEW the previous hand, kitty and bids made
- Ability to tailor the playing of Misere
- Ability to tailor the rules according to local preferences
- Large Card display for smaller screens
- Ability to control game speed
- Ability to turn on/off game sounds
- Option to play 3 or 5 card kitty
Here are some tips on playing the game...
- Don't forget that when there is a trump suit, the highest trump is the joker , followed by the jack of the trump suit (right bower), the other jack of the same colour (left bower), then Ace, King, Queen, 10, 9, etc. down to 5 or 4.Therefore, if say, hearts are trumps, then the jack of diamonds in considered to be a heart for that hand. If diamonds are trumps, the jack of hearts becomes a diamond, conversely. This does not apply for a No Trumps or Misere Bid, naturally.
- The minimum number of tricks that can be bid is six. If you bid say "six hearts", you are saying that with your partner's help, you will try to win at least six tricks with hearts as trumps. How many hearts say would you need to feel confident of making a six hearts bid? There are plenty of thoughts about the bidding process available online, and you need to take the strength of your offsuit into account, ie. do you have many aces?, but as a general guide, perhaps 4 hearts would be a good start.
- If you win the bid, you get to pick up kitty, and need to discard any 3 (or 5) cards from the 13 available to you. As a guide, it is often a good idea to try to rid yourself of an offsuit of which you have no high cards, so that if that suit is led by the opposition during the hand, you are in a position to trump them if required.
- During play, if you are trying to make a bid, it is often a good idea to try to extract trumps from the opposition early in the hand, so that when it comes to playing your offsuit later, they are not in a position to trump your aces. But if you are trying to stop a bid being made, it is also a good idea to not lead trumps back to the opposition if you can help it, try to keep the precious trumps for trumping offsuit.
- When you can't follow the suit that was led, are you aren't looking to trump, you are said to be discarding. You should try to discard a low card from your strongest offsuit first, and your partner will pick up on this and believe that this suit is perhaps the best to lead to you later.
For many more tips on all things 500, a good website to visit is
http://www.specialksoftware.com/#500
To play 500 online against other people, try...
http://www.juliannegiffin.com
If you have any issues, please email
trowe67@gmail.com
and an update may be supplied.
Note to Samsung users who can't seem to access any menus, that these can be accessed by long pressing the bottom right "recent apps" button on the device.
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Game History & Updates
What's Changed
Version 3.02 fixes a problem where sometimes the total number of wins and losses can be unexpectedly reset to 0.
Version 3.01 fixes a problem displaying buttons on the Review dialog for Android 5 (Lollipop) devices.
Version 3.00
NEW!!! A much requested feature, REVIEW functionality at the end of a hand now allows you to review the previous hand played, the previous kitty and the bids made.
Version 3.02 fixes a problem where sometimes the total number of wins and losses can be unexpectedly reset to 0.
Version 3.01 fixes a problem displaying buttons on the Review dialog for Android 5 (Lollipop) devices.
Version 3.00
NEW!!! A much requested feature, REVIEW functionality at the end of a hand now allows you to review the previous hand played, the previous kitty and the bids made.
Price update Price changed from $0.94 to $1.14.
Version update Five Hundred was updated to version 3.02
Version update Five Hundred was updated to version 2.91
Price update Price changed from $1.25 to $0.94.
What are users saying about Five Hundred
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The AI players mostly play very well, and I really enjoy playing because of that, but definitely some ideas for improving. (Update, found a bug - in a heart trump hand, the opposite team lead the Left, and my AI partner, not having any Hearts, played the Ace of Diamonds, which was not at all its worst off suit). Ideas; 1. If the AI wins the bid and doesn't have the Joker, it always leads with the Ace, even if I have declared the Joker by a 6NT bid. If I play low, knowing I have the gap high cards, it doesn't get the hint keeps playing high until I have no choice but to waste a high card. 2. If I bid Misere and the AI partner has a semi-useful misere hand, they'll bid Open Misere, assuming I hold all their gap low cards and usually fail. Not that clever. 3. The AI has no regard for current score. Eg even if the other team has 400+ and we are positive, it will pass allowing the other team an easy 6-bid win. 4. The game speed is only just okay. A little frustrating when the hand is a no brainer, still have to wait for 'your turn' before you can select a card. 5. In a NT hand, when the Joker is lead by an AI player, it is not obvious which suit was declared, so I have to guess and sometimes I end up playing not what I wanted. Would be better to have some obvious indication. 6. After a hand, good to see the review. But if I bid misere and my partner doesnt play, the review won't show their hand. And if the hand ends early, it only shows played cards. Would prefer to see all cards. Probably have more, but that'll do for now. All up, a good job!
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It does not work on a 10 tablet, it did before you updated, so I swapped to another app for 500 since when do you have to discard the whole 3 cards
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I love playing this app it would be great with a few modifications where I have standard selected as my partner my partner makes some stupid bids even overbids me and has no chance to make his bid partner also leads Trump and helps opposing team rid us of our Trump remember my partner bidding miseries once thanks for taking my comments into consideration
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The computer players use good logic. Would be good to have cards you can't play disabled when it is your turn to play.
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Best version I've found !
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AI is generally pretty fair. ..most of the time
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I really enjoy playing but the computer sabotages your hand so often. Can't configure the mode. Should have from beginner medium to advanced.
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This is great fun for about 2hrs until you find the same strength hands, same bidding styles, & same outcomes repeat over & over & over... like being stuck in a time warp. At this stage your brain is in a trance because you know if you keep playing you'll win again, & you can't stop until you do.
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I still can't believe so few people have downloaded this app. It's the best and I always enjoy playing. I can't remember it ever crashing. What more do serious players want?
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Love the app but hate when i lead my joker as first card my opponent leads a bower even though they had a lower card. I would get banished from my family if we did this playing cards!
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Very realistic 95% of the time. Occasionally partner bids irrationally, e.g. 7 Diamonds w only one diamond in hand.
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After hiding the menu, there seems to be now way to bring it back. Sometimes I just want to restart a new game but I can't. How do I bring the menu back after hiding it?
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Best 500 on Android.
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Opponents play the joker on NT bids while still having cards of the played suit in their hand. According to every rule set, this is illegal. When playing inkle bids, the computer will inkle a suit without a bower. This makes it impossible to know how strong of a 6 bid it is. I've seen the AI bid 6 on a 4,5,6,7. With that said, the AI is still superior to the other 500 games on the market.
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How do you declare joker when playing misere?
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The customizable rules put this 500 app above all others (no other app allows you to play as close to traditional American rules), but it needs the option to allow everyone to only bid once per hand regardless of what else has been bid. The partner AI does some really stupid things sometimes, too, such as losing a trick by leading the King of trump, and then displaying later that they had the bower necessary to prevent that. The app just needs a few more updates!
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Great game. Best 500 game on android
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If you want real players, try 500 multiplayer by the same great creator as this creation.
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AIs much better than other apps out there. No way to get the menu bar back after hiding it. A bit slow and the buttons, card images look bad
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One small bug. The games won/lost table keeps resetting to zero
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Not great, too slow. No icon on my desktop.
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Fun and keeps being improved.
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Love it
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Best Card game ever !!! . Excellent programing. Great IA. Love the new winning screen display.
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AI is generally pretty fair. ..most of the time
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This app is by far the best when it comes to the game 500. I don't know why people don't give it a higher rating or why it doesn't have a higher rating, but it indeed is the only app out there with so many different options. It is the only app which has options for Misere. It allows you to call Misere at any time if you choose, or you can choose the option that will not allow you to call Misere if somebody makes a 7 book bid. Also has the option to bid even if you pass the first time.
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Computer partner is a dope.. you get less than 25 pc of biddable hands.. it isnt randomised deck at all... not even close.. no options menu .. no live play over net.. its pathetic.. worst dollar Ive spent since I bought chocolate jelly beans and they turned out to be rabbit droppings.
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The partner often loses for you. Cheats in mosair
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The computer often sluffs and than later plays that suit.
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This is great fun for about 2hrs until you find the same strength hands, same bidding styles, & same outcomes repeat over & over & over... like being stuck in a time warp. At this stage your brain is in a trance because you know if you keep playing you'll win again, & you can't stop until you do.
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The computer should deal a little more evenly. We pay for this app. I cannot adjust anything, no settings. Have not won a game. Crap.
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Decent game mechanics, regular updates, better than anything else at the moment.
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I had problems with the app, the operator worked with me until fixed. He just sent an update. The best!
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I really enjoy playing but the computer sabotages your hand so often. Can't configure the mode. Should have from beginner medium to advanced.
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Version 2.4 crashes in the middle of play. Very frustrating, used to work fine before. It is happening more and more frequently. PLEASE FIX!
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The partner often loses for you
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I really enjoy playing but the computer sabotages your hand so often. Can't configure the mode. Should have from beginner medium to advanced.
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Love it especially now misere has been fixed. Great for teaching new comers to the game - just wish there was a 3 hand cut throat version to make it perfect :-D
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addictive game.
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This is a great game but could be a little better. Could you please add a throwdown feature? If I have all of the remaining trump and high cards it would be nice if I could just throw down my hand and say that I have the remaining tricks like I do in person. This is a big time saver over playing out every last card in my hand trick by trick.