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| ranked double deck pinochle games |
If you enjoy more competitive play, ranked games may be for you. You may want to brush up on your Ace-on-Ace leadback and meld-bidding skills. Please be a good sport! If you are a Pinochle expert, and your partner is playing poorly, don't abuse the chat functionality by being rude. Instead, ask them if they would like some tips. Chatting about strategy while you are playing a game is considered offensive, unless everyone agrees to it. But you can chat freely at a "chat table" after a game, and you can use the site's messaging feature to send short messages to players that you have liked.
By the way, there's a good discussion board, Power Pinochle, for Double Deck Pinochle enthusiasts. You will find many signalling and bidding tips explained there.
The "bots" have been updated in Double Deck Pinochle, so you should notice some improvement in their signalling skills. The bots also got tuned up Euchre.
Here's another major change that you may like: 'notifications' have been added to the site. If you have used Google Calendar, you may have seen these before. A notification is just a tiny popup to let you know about something happening in your browser. At World of Card Games, a tiny popup will appear when your game starts (but only if your browser is in the background)! There's already an audio alert for this event, but a few people have told me that this is not always helpful because their sound is not on.
You can opt out of notifications if you prefer not to get them. Since these types of alerts are built in to your browser, they are not like the annoying pop-ups that some sites have. Your browser can be used to turn them off whenever you like.
Please let me know if you experience any bugs due to the recent update. I plan to update the Pinochle bots with more strategy improvements in the future. If you have any suggestions for improvements you'd like to see, feel free to contact me.
9 comments:
Hi Marya,
Please add ranked tables for 29 as well.
Thanks,
Ooglyboo
Yes! I cannot promise exactly when, but I think 29 will be the next game with rankings, hopefully in June or July.
Sometimes when playing Hearts, the bots start throwing cards out of order (five to a trick) and then I have to play another card and the whole game is messed up. My strategy is shot and I have to lose that hand, and sometimes the game. I leave the game and it counts against me. Any way I can fix this while playing?
Hi Anon @ May 25 2017 - if you see cards being thrown out of order, so there are more cards on the trick pile than there should be, it is a sign that there was a small interruption in your internet service and your browser lost track of where you are, so things are displayed incorrectly. Usually if this happens, you can reload the page in the browser to get the display looking correctly again. Before you do this, you may want to double-check that your internet connection is okay. In particular, wifi (wireless internet) can be less reliable than ethernet (where you have a physical cable connected to your computer).
On many computers the F5 key will reload your browser page. Also, most browsers have a special "reload page" button that looks like a curly arrow in the browser's menu bar. If you are not familiar with this functionality, I suggest trying it on the home page to see how it works before trying it during a game.
Simple enough! Thank you for your quick reply:)
looking forward to it!
Are there any plans in the future to add a sheepshead (Schafkopf if you want to get technical) game to the site? It's the only favorite of mine not yet available for play.
I do have Sheepshead on my to-do list. I can't guarantee when I'll get to it, unfortunately!
Hi Ooglyboo - as of this morning, you can play ranked Twenty-Nine on the site!
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