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User Reviews for 42 Dominoes
Horrible partner
This game is not realistic with partner play!!!! It will aggregate the crap out of you!!!’ Your partner “the computer” continuously makes bad decisions. Examples: If your partner wins the bid and loses the lead to you; and you lead w a double, it will Trump you instead of getting rid of its offs. Then turn around and lead with its off and lose the hand. Another example of a moves that infuriated when I had the bid and was playing. I got down towards the end of my hand and lead one of my offs which was six blank. The person behind me played six four. My partner had double six and played a lower six. In addition your partner continuously bids over you with crappy hands! Not very well set up!
42
Game is good except for one big problem. Even though I paid for a “smart” partner and challenging competition, I don’t feel like I got that. Partner and opponents continually make rookie mistakes. Partner doesn’t seem to be able to recognize when he and I have all the trumps (or all of any suit), and doesn’t seem to have the ability to utilize the strategy of holding on to a trump to catch count that opponents are holding on to. When we both have all the trumps, he will play all of his trumps, even when he has other doubles in his hand, pulling all of the trumps out of my hand, and often causing us to lose the hand. Very frustrating. He and opponents also sometimes fail to play count when it’s obvious, or likely, that their partner is going to win that hand. Also sometimes fail to play a double when they should to win an important hand. Also very frustrating. In spite of these, I still play it. It has pretty good overall functionality. Just EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING when “smart” partner repeatedly makes stupid plays.
Bad strategy
Whoever programmed this app does not know how to play 42. First if you have no blank’s don’t call them as your trump. 2 when you are in the lead play doubles not the 6/4. 3 of you and your partner are the only one with trumps throw an off not another trump pulling trumps out of your partners hand. 4 when you the throw an off don’t throw count. 5 also don’t lead with a 5 , 6 , or 4 if you don’t know where the double 5 or 6/4 is. 6 if you’re partner throws a double don’t trump it. 7 if you’re partner throw a double throw count if you can don’t hold on to it to the end of the hand. 8 even if you think you can make 36. You can bid lower . 8 where is “plunge” and 7’s . 9 in nelo doubles catch doubles only. The programer is definitely not a Texan
Not. Cool.
I got this game to learn more skill and technique since my family plays so much and are basically professionals. I know my partner is a computer, but I’ve lost countless times bc my partner could’ve caught it and didn’t. Example/ We’re winning a 31 hand, i throw out my five off (5/4), next person 5/3, my partner 5/blank, and then last 5/6. that put the other team in the lead. They throw double 6 and my partner throws double 5 on there when it wasn’t beneficial in anyway, and that could’ve won us the game if they threw it in the previous turn. It happens constantly, and even ppl in real like know when to throw a double. It’s ridiculous bc you’re supposed to have your partners help, but they just screw me over every time. Not. Cool.
Partner defaulting to blanks as trump
I grew up playing straight dominoes, 42, and moon, so was happy to discover this; however, I have uncovered a flaw or two in the game design. When the game setting is set to force a bid and when my partner is bidding last and has to bid, blanks are always chosen for trump even without any blanks in the hand! Another thing I noticed, when my partner is playing a domino in the trump, it appears no consideration is given to strategy. For example, the trump is 3 and my partner has 3/2 & 3/1 and 3/3, 3/6, and 3/5 are already played with 3/4 still out, my partner plays 3/2, often giving away points.My “smart” partner bid with 2 as trump. 2/2, 2/6, 2/5, 2/1, & 2/0 were played. My partner still had 2/4 & 2/3 along with 6/6, 4/4, & 5/1; however, instead of playing a trump or double, the partner led with 5/1, with the opponents taking with 5/5 and tossing in 5/0. A mediocre player would play better than this “smart” partner.
Good but with major flaws
This is a good rendition of 42. Overall it plays pretty good games. I’ve played many 100s of times. So it is fun to play. But I’ve noticed 2 major flaws. First, the teammate game play leads trumps even when opposing teams is without trumps weakening partner’s hand by draining their own trumps. It doesn’t matter if teammate has other non-trump leads/winners. Second and more subtle is an observation that shake randomization is weak. The side affect is you tend to get similarly close groupings of dominos for an entire match. I guess that you get more practice with playing certain groupings of dominoes, but it creates an unrealistic game at times. The randomization seed seems to be reset after relaunching App for a new match. The repeatability trend of this issue seems to imply that the interactive bone picking feature is bogus and App just assigns you its randomized set of bones. It’s fun to think that different picking patterns may yield more random hands, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.
Computer isn’t very strong.
I agree w another review that even w the smart partner option, the computer is not strong. As a teammate, in cases where it becomes obvious that the only trumps remaining belong to your team, it will continue exhausting trumps and forcing them from your hand unnecessarily, which often leaves you to to leadoff position but no more trumps and just bad off dominoes remaining. As an opponent, when it becomes obvious that it’s teammate has the strongest domino and that it will not be trumped, the computer will often refuse to add count to the hand and thereby set your team. IE sometimes you end up winning when you shouldn’t. Idk. Decent but not strong CPU. Technical issue the “tap” option doesn’t work, you have to hold it down for a long time to highlight trump dominoes in the betting round.
Trump Issue
This app is fairly close to 42, but the skill level of players is low and many times, not smart. Several times, I have lost a bid because sometimes, the app reads a double (not a trump) as the high domino, instead of my trump! For example. I put out the last trump, tres-blank (tres is trump). The left opponent put out a deuce-six, my partner played an ace-6. The right opponent played double-six. Instead of the trump taking it, the double took it. I lost because the right opponent then led a double-five; I could not trump and lost the entire hand. Quite frustrating, as nothing can be done. I will continue to play and hope that glitch gets worked out.
Computer isn’t always very smart
The computerized partner will make bad moves like bidding 2 marks when you’re only 1 mark from winning and then losing the second trick because they didn’t have a high trump. If you move the difficulty up to hard you spend more time passing than playing. At that point you need to pay to force the last person to bid. It would be nice to be able to bid Plunge or to make the partner be a little smarter like not playing a trump to steal the lead from you when they have the last trump left and you’re trying to finish by playing a bunch of doubles.
Partner Issues
Extremely frustrating! Although the game is 42, the partners are relatively “stupid.” Though this is the case for all the computer players (even your opponents), so at least that is fair. The most recent example, which has happened multiple times - I didn’t have the double for my trump, so I played a lower trump to pull it in. My partner played count (the 6/4) even though he couldn’t have known if I was faking or not (I wasn’t). It cost the game. Also, the game nickels and dimes you to get better partners, to play for more marks, to make the game more difficult, to play Nel-O, to make the last player bid if no one else has (it just re-shuffles for the table), etc. It’s $.99-$2.99 per option or $9.99 for all of them. If I knew the developers were using the money to create a game where you could play with real people versus computers, I’d be ecstatic, but it seems steep just for options (especially when I don’t know if the partners will be any more intuitive or better).
Description
42 Dominoes (also known as Four Hand Texas or Texas 42) is a domino trick-taking game with bids and trumps like spades, pitch or bridge. Game features: - ultra HD graphics for iPhone 6 Plus and iPad Air display - game scoring for marks or points - manual or automatic bone dealing - first player setup - animated moves - highlight legal moves - easy to use interface design - option to listen nice music in background - change the appearance of the board and bones - hint option to find out the best next move - AI quick response time - auto-save when exit or phone ring Play one of the oldest and most enjoyable national game of Texas!
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