Gin Rummy ⋆

Latest version is RIGGED !! I am an excellent player but now I am lucky to win 1 in 10 games. They have removed the option to set the degree of difficulty and AI is playing like it is reading your mind and also knows the deck structure. Don't download this unless you want to be suckered into losing nearly every time.

I love playing Gin Rummy but this app is NOT Realistic/Fair Especially When you win a Hand within 24hrs It will Deal you a 70+ hand And don't dare pick up a 10,J,Q,K You will rarely win especially if on the first draw!!!

Now that I've become a decent player, I'm convinced this game cheats: once you've won a certain percentage of games, you'll never surpass that. After about 200 games of Oklahoma at difficult level, I was winning 2/3 of them…but can never improve beyond that. AI "opponent" seems to always know your hand, and consistently withholds the card(s) you need until you finally discard the potential sets. AI also seems to come up with incredible, miraculous plays right when it needs to…while you plod along, winning hands of 2, 14, or 27 pts., and occasionally a big score, but not with the regularity of AI. Very disheartening, and so frustrating—I've already deleted this app several times from both my iPod touch & iPad…but, glutton for punishment that I am, I keep reinstalling. It is captivating, but after you play it enough, you just get sick of how predictably AI is going to come from behind in just two hands, scoring 139 points, after you've stalled at 143. It's maddening. Déjà vu from my original 2013 review: I am a beginner at Gin (learning from this game), have played well over 500 games just since Christmas (really—it's that addictive), and was winning about 2/3 at the most difficult level, until Oklahoma: now it feels like I'm LOSING 2/3 or more! Would've rated it at least 4 stars, but that doubling bug drops it…unless somebody can explain it from the rules.

Reviews are full of folks saying that the app is cheating or taking some form of unfair advantage. To an extent, all apps where playing against the AI do. This app is the absolute worst I have ever seen. It's fun enough to play, but it's pretty ridiculous. I've played a few hundred games ... In Easy mode. I win maybe 50% of those games against the AI. I've played a hundred or so games against online opponents and win about 75% of those games. At least 25 times in games against the AI, there's one card drawn and the AI knocks. That's getting dealt one heck of a hand. I can actually imagine that happening occasionally. In this app, it has NEVER happened to me once and has never happened for any of my online opponents. That's just the one draw knocks. There's been countless two draw and three draw knocks. AI knocks at 10 every time. Rarely gins and has only big gin'd once in over 300 games. Oddly, AI has passed on opening card all but once on opening draw in over 300 games. Here's the thing I don't get. This is all in Easy mode. How is there a medium and hard? Better strategy? In rummy? No, it's better cards being dealt. App is a joke. Kinda fun for awhile, but it's so ridiculously dealing itself hands that you will eventually grow tired of the amazing luck of the AI.

Love it recommend it for serious card players! Overall just really fun!