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By jgonzalezATX11Nov 30,2019

I agree w another review that even w the smart partner option, the computer is not strong. As a teammate, in cases where it becomes obvious that the only trumps remaining belong to your team, it will continue exhausting trumps and forcing them from your hand unnecessarily, which often leaves you to to leadoff position but no more trumps and just bad off dominoes remaining. As an opponent, when it becomes obvious that it’s teammate has the strongest domino and that it will not be trumped, the computer will often refuse to add count to the hand and thereby set your team. IE sometimes you end up winning when you shouldn’t. Idk. Decent but not strong CPU. Technical issue the “tap” option doesn’t work, you have to hold it down for a long time to highlight trump dominoes in the betting round.

By StarAFJan 9,2022

As a long-time player of 42, I know all the rules for 42. The main flaw is how the AI computes the scores. I just finished a hand and the AI recorded the last trick to my opponent. By doing this, I lost that hand. I had the bid. Trumps are gone. Last trick I played a double blank, my opponent played a double 4, my partner followed the suit, and the last player (my opponent) played a 6-4. Up until this last trick--not set. By my calculation, my double was a walker and I won the points. My game should have been recorded as a win. I went into detail to show this app will make such recording errors regularly. Also, in the stated rules shown in their menu, it is stated that doubles can be a suit of their own in nello. I wish the game creaters would add this as an option to the game. Such an option gives the players more possibilities in bidding. I've played nello with this option for many years--more fun. Otherwise, I enjoy this app. Finally, I wish there were more app choices for Texas 42...

By Boo 7*May 26,2020

Game is good except for one big problem. Even though I paid for a “smart” partner and challenging competition, I don’t feel like I got that. Partner and opponents continually make rookie mistakes. Partner doesn’t seem to be able to recognize when he and I have all the trumps (or all of any suit), and doesn’t seem to have the ability to utilize the strategy of holding on to a trump to catch count that opponents are holding on to. When we both have all the trumps, he will play all of his trumps, even when he has other doubles in his hand, pulling all of the trumps out of my hand, and often causing us to lose the hand. Very frustrating. He and opponents also sometimes fail to play count when it’s obvious, or likely, that their partner is going to win that hand. Also sometimes fail to play a double when they should to win an important hand. Also very frustrating. In spite of these, I still play it. It has pretty good overall functionality. Just EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING when “smart” partner...

By TheHodgePodgeJun 23,2021

Two main issues, first, when the computer is forced to take the bid, it often just chooses blanks. It seems it would be easy to at least just set it to make trump the suit the computer has the most of. I’ve actually had it make trump blanks multiple times and it didn’t even have a blank. Second, the computer will play trump as long all the trumps are not in. So, if the computer and its partner are the only ones with trumps it will pull the trumps from the partner. This almost never happens. Other minor issues: sometimes the computer should be able to tell it’s partner is going to win a trick and thus play count. Sometimes it doesn’t. When the computer goes low, it struggles determining which domino to slough. For example, it will often slough a double blank, when there is no way the opponents could lead to the double blank. Having said all this it is still fun and there just are not that many 42 apps available.

By ckovyJun 11,2021

I grew up playing straight dominoes, 42, and moon, so was happy to discover this; however, I have uncovered a flaw or two in the game design. When the game setting is set to force a bid and when my partner is bidding last and has to bid, blanks are always chosen for trump even without any blanks in the hand! Another thing I noticed, when my partner is playing a domino in the trump, it appears no consideration is given to strategy. For example, the trump is 3 and my partner has 3/2 & 3/1 and 3/3, 3/6, and 3/5 are already played with 3/4 still out, my partner plays 3/2, often giving away points. My “smart” partner bid with 2 as trump. 2/2, 2/6, 2/5, 2/1, & 2/0 were played. My partner still had 2/4 & 2/3 along with 6/6, 4/4, & 5/1; however, instead of playing a trump or double, the partner led with 5/1, with the opponents taking with 5/5 and tossing in 5/0. A mediocre player would play better than this “smart” partner.