NeuralPlay Twenty Nine offers many features and rule options for you to enjoy. Customize and let the NeuralPlay AI challenge you with your favorite rules!
Features include:
• Undo.
• Replay hand.
• Skip hand.
• Offline play.
• Detailed statistics.
• Bid and play hints. Uncertain of what to bid or play? See what the computer would do!
• Bid and play checker. Let the computer check your bids and plays throughout the game and point out differences.
• Play review. Step through the play of the hand to review and improve your play.
• Six levels of computer AI to provide challenges for beginning to advanced players.
• Unique thinking AI to provide a strong AI opponent for different rule variations.
• Deal Sequence. Play a fixed sequence of predetermined deals.
• Claim. Claim the remaining tricks when your hand is high.
Rule customizations include:
• Notrump. Allow no trump suit to be chosen by declarer.
• 7th card. Make the 7th card dealt to the declarer determine the trump suit. This card is visible to the declarer when dealt, but will not be revealed to other players until the trump suit is revealed during play.
• Double. After the trump suit choice but before the second deal, the defenders will be given the option to double the bid.
• Redouble. After a double, the declaring team will be given the option to redouble.
• Single hand. After the second deal, players will be given the option to play a single hand. A single hand is played with notrump and without a partner against both opponents. The declarer of the single hand must capture all 8 tricks.
• Marriage (pair) bonus. When a player has both the king and queen of trump in hand at the time trump is revealed, a bonus of 4 points is received.
• Cancel invalid deals. Some hands are invalid, when this occurs the hand will be redealt.
• Reveal trump. Choose to reveal trump either automatically before the first discard or ask before discarding.
• Point for last trick. Award 1 point for capturing the last trick, making the maximum possible score 29 points instead of 28 points.
• Play direction. Choose the play direction to be either clockwise or counterclockwise.
• Bidder trump lead. Choose to allow bidder to lead trump before it has been revealed.
• Leading. Choose either the dealer or the player after the dealer to be the initial leader.
• Minimum bid. Set the minimum bid from 14 to 17 points.
• Half bid penalty. Capturing less than half of ones bid is a double point penalty.
• 21 or more bonus. Bids of 21 or more points are worth double points.
• Undertrump. Allow the discard of a trump card of rank lower than a higher ranking trump card already on the trick.
Twenty Nine (29) is also known as Twenty Eight (28). You may play to a score of either 29 or 28 by choosing to award a point for the last trick or not.