Last updated on December 15th, 2025 at 01:32 pm
Classic Minnesota Whist – Card Game Review
Classic Minnesota Whist is a Card game from Coppercod Ltd, first launched in 24th April 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 90+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Classic Minnesota Whist Stand Out
A Partnership Whist game for your smartphone or tablet. Free to play. Track your Stats. Take on smart AIs.
Minnesota Whist is a variant of whist that is popular in Minnesota and South Dakota. It's a partnership game but unlike other whist variants it does not have trumps.
The aim of Minnesota Whist differs depending on whether the hand is a “high bid” or a “low bid”. For high bids, the aim is to collect seven or more of the thirteen tricks. For low bids, the aim is to collect six or fewer tricks.
Minnesota Whist is a simple partnership trick-taking card game perfect for building your card skills. Develop your strategic thinking and teamwork while you unwind with this fun and fast-paced game.
Work with your AI partner to outwit your opponents in this fast and fun card game. Whist is a great game for learning trick-taking games of all types. Grow your skill and turn the difficulty up to hard when you’re ready for a challenge!
To win, you must work with your AI partner to outwit your opponents and be the first partnership to reach the win target, either 13 or seven.
Make sure to track your all time and session stats to follow your improvement as you learn!
Customise Whist to make it the perfect game for you!
● Choose your preferred win target
● Choose to play with a "set bonus"
● Choose between easy, medium or hard mode
● Choose normal or fast play
● Play in landscape or portrait mode
● Turn single click play on or off
● Sort cards in ascending or descending order
● Replay the hand either from the play or from the bid
● Review the previous hands played throughout the round
You can also customise your color themes and card decks to choose from to keep the landscape interesting!
Quickfire Rules:
After the cards are dealt evenly between four players, each player bids either high (a black card), or low (a red card). Each bid card is revealed one by one starting left of the dealer. The player who bid the first black card turned over is said to have 'granded' and the round is played 'high' (teams try to win as many tricks as possible). No other cards are turned over after the first black card. If all of the bid cards are red, the game is played 'low' (teams try to win as few tricks as possible).
In a high bid round, the player to the right of the player who granded leads the first trick. In a low bid round, the player to the left of the dealer leads the first trick. Each player then plays one card in turn, following suit if they can. If they cannot follow suit, they may play any other card in their hand. The player who plays the highest card matching the suit of the led card in the trick wins the trick. The player who wins the previous trick leads the next trick.
At the end of each round, points are scored by the number of tricks each partnership has collected. In a high bid round, a point is awarded to the team who granded for every trick taken over 6. If the team who granded fail to make 7 tricks, the other team are awarded either 1 or 2 points per trick taken over 6 depending on the 'set bonus' setting. In a low bid round, a team is awarded 1 point per trick taken less than 7.
This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Classic Minnesota Whist is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th April 2025
Recent improvements include:
Thank you for playing Minnesota Whist! This version includes:
- Stability and performance improvements
Download & Availability
Classic Minnesota Whist is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Classic Minnesota Whist on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Great app. Always works and can play fast. Can leave game and it picks up right where you left off. Great game.
Thanks so much for this. We have looked for an MW app for years.
This is definitely a game changer for us and our family we play this At least 3 times a week we love play it.
Who ever programmed this needs todo an update or talked to somebody thats played Minnesota whist. This program is not up to hard level, the player constantly makes mistakes. Y parter constantly gets us set whe branding, and there is no ace no face in this game.so tired of our partner not coming back in our invite when he has the card. Get 3 taken when areal person would come back we. Invite. Our son tells us to play in stupid mode it does better, not!why not update this app. As it is now no.Matter what level you play theirall stupid.
There are some key whist elements that are missing. Our partner played back the opponents invite with nothing to back it up with. Does not play our invite often and does not play low well at all. If want some insight on the game we are a veteran player as well.
There are some key whist elements that are missing. Our partner played back the opponents invite with nothing to back it up with. Does not play our invite often and does not play low well at all. If want some insight on the game we are a veteran player.
We love whist. Growing up in Northern MN, we played this all the time.
This game is so unrealistic in that our partner has obviously never played whist before. Never plays back invites, doesnt develop hands with his/her partner, and reminds us of playing with a kid whos just learning the game. Veteran whist player here who was initially excited to find this game but quickly disappointed at the execution of the algorithms used to create the game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.7.9
- Size: 34.87 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Coppercod Ltd
Last updated: 14th April 2025 | Genre: Card | Developer: Coppercod Ltd