Gin Rummy Best Card Game

I play every day pretty much. The strengths of the game are simplicity and stability, with a challenging AI. After playing for years I win approximately 60% of the time. There are some oddities in the game, like how it deals high numbered cards and works its way down. You totally learn to instinctively predict this non-random behavior and collect high cards, both because the AI drops them and the deck deals them. Against a human opponent or a random deck this behavior would backfire. The computer also plays on good if not perfect memory of what cards you have taken, and probably can guess your hand most games. Other than those aspects, i disagree that it cheats or anything, as some report. That’s not true. It’s difficult but interesting dynamic game play.

I don’t know really what to say about this game. On one hand it could be fun to play, on the other hand yes the house does deal itself good hands about 80% more then you will ever get one. But I must ask with the lopsidedness that the self serving dealing affords it why cheat on top of that? Let’s say the house has a pair of aces yet, which it always does, how does it draw a Q of hearts? The same Qof hearts it already thru out a couple of plays ago. If you pay close attention you will notice that that type of thing happens every hand more or less. You get low in the deck and know your card has to be coming up soon and then the house throws out the sixth Q, yes I’m not making that up. You pay attention you will notice that instead of having to throw out your card it will just throw out one that was already ditched. With all the advantages built in for the house to win why feel the need to cheat on top of it? At first I liked playing this game, until I caught on to the sneakiness it uses to win. If you don’t believe me play a few hands and watch, you will see that some sets have 5 or 6 cards knit not just the real 4 per.

The good news is that I have gotten better at playing this game because of the app. The VERY bad news is how lopsided the deals are. I agree with other reviewers....it is astounding how often the system has gin or knocks within being dealt the first 2 or 3 cards. I have played enough games to know this isn’t random....it is definitely tilted towards the house. The other thing that sticks out is how often the system gets dealt a ton of low cards and I get high cards (all random so no chance of melding). About every 4th day I seem to get dealt all the good cards and have the advantage. My stats are actually pretty good. Why? Because I stop playing when the system can’t lose....80% of the time. On the days/times I get good cards....I keep playing. Needs a LOT of work. Yes AI is better than me....but that isn’t the issue here....the system is tilted severely towards itself. Updating this review. I paid close attention over the last couple of days exactly how cards were dealt. The dealer won at least 10 hands within 3 cards while I did it once. It especially seems to happen after it loses a couple of hands and feels like it needs to catch up. I don’t believe anyone would design a game to do that but how do you explain it. It is the most frustrating app I have ever experienced.....so unbalanced it isn’t even funny.