Buraco Pro HD

This is an excellent game, but I believe the people behind the development are involved too much in the game - silly mistakes of the people playing or excessive luck of the players with higher rankings - it would be nice to optionally have variations of the game e.g. only be able to take the pile if you can put down game

I know the developer insists that the cards are dealt out randomly, but I don’t believe them or either someone has hacked their system. I’ve been playing for several years with a 70% win rate. For the most part, games were pretty close and competitive down to the last play. That is no longer the case. Most recently I have lost 21 of 25 games and most of the losses are by a huge margin. My last game was a game that could be won with a score of 1505. My partner and I had 1080 points and our opponents had 105. For the next three hands, our opponents got all of the winning cards and we got none. We never got to pick up the dead pile. They ended up beating us by 300 points! This has happened to me over and over again. I’ve had games where one team repeatedly gets all of the wild cards every single hand and the other team gets none. The game is not fun anymore. Perhaps the developer should look into this.

The computer/al in any card or board game Will not be perfect. But this is by far the worst computer I’ve ever played against. The computer is selfish in the sense that it only plays for itself. 1. When melding the computer will automatically play a two or a joker without giving you the chance to see if you can play on that meld. And often times I’ve had the ability to add to that meld and get a clean Buraco. In fact it’s very rare that we do get a clean buraco and the other team almost always does. 2. The computer has no strategy whatsoever. It does not pay attention to what cards you are picking up to meld. It’s common sense that if you see me picking up spades then that’s what I am trying to accumulate and meld. Furthermore it really picks up cards. In fact it mostly only picks up cards if they can be meld immediately. 3. It seems as though the computer only goal is to get rid of its cards as soon as possible to pick up the extra deck. Rather than trying to make a Buraco it will just lay down multiple melds that could’ve been one meld. Even when I have laid out most of my cards and have one or 2 cards left it was still meld its cards just to pick up the extra deck. Basically the other team almost always picks up its extra deck before us, sometimes we don’t even pick up the extra deck, and they almost always have more buracos than we do. If you are serious about playing this game and you can’t play online, I would not recommend downloading this game to play against the computer because you won’t actually play realistic game.