Klued Up: Board Game Solver

The iPad version of the app Clued Up is fine, but Klued Up does not work right in any of the 21 card sets with 2 players. 21 cards minus 3 for the Confidential envelope leaves 18 cards. So 9 cards per player. The iPhone version seems to think you get 7. So it never calculates anything correctly, particularly rooms. It lets you enter 9 of 7 cards okay but you have to go with your gut and choose a room with 40% odds not 100%. It seems okay with 3 or 4 players. I finally bought another app for the iPhone. I used to graph all this out as a logic problem so this does beat that, but only on an iPad apparently. I was contacted by the developer, so they are responsive, kudos. On box technically the game is for 3-6 players only. 2 player version of the rules include setting aside some cards to look at when no one can prove anyone wrong, as a sort of virtual 3rd player. But the iPad and iPhone apps are still not consistent with each other. The developer said that they may put in a setting. Changing to 4 stars. We only have so many iPads and iPhones around the house when everyone is playing but this at least only effects 2 player mode.

It doesn’t give you any extra info when correct answer is given

The app is very good--it processes the odds of any of the various cards being one of the 3 required to identify. Really makes it clear how certain it is & lets the user know when it also "finds" a card in someone else's hand. The bombardment of ads takes what is a practically perfect app and makes it an almost abhorrent money grab. The constant ad bar at the bottom of the app is rather annoying. I was under the impression that, if paying $2.99, there wouldn't be any ads, though to be fair, it was never promised to be ad free when I purchased it. When the app determines who is holding a certain card, it allows you to know that specific information--if you either watch an ad (which doesn't always work well in a live game) or pay $1.99. Initially, I didn't think the $1.99 was a bad deal, but then I found out that fee was for each game played, not a one time expense. And if you spend the money for an ad free game, but don't finish the game, you're out the $1.99.