Last updated on December 15th, 2025 at 10:05 am
Five Hundred (500) – Expert AI – Card Game Review
Five Hundred (500) – Expert AI is a Card/Strategy/Education game from NeuralPlay, LLC, first launched in 28th March 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,802+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Five Hundred (500) – Expert AI Stand Out
Whether you’re a seasoned player or learning Five Hundred for the first time, Five Hundred (500) – Expert AI brings this classic trick-taking card game to life. Start playing right away with preset rules for the American and Australian variants, or adjust the rules to suit the way you play.
Learn faster, play smarter, and improve your strategy with advanced AI partners and opponents, in-depth analysis tools, and extensive rule customization. Enjoy offline Five Hundred anytime — no internet required.
CHALLENGING AND ENJOYABLE FOR ALL
New to Five Hundred?
Learn as you play with the NeuralPlay AI, which offers real-time suggestions to guide your moves. Build your skills hands-on, explore strategies, and master decision-making in a single-player experience that teaches you every step of the game.
Already an expert?
Challenge yourself against six levels of advanced AI opponents designed to test your skills, sharpen your strategy, and make every game exciting, competitive, and rewarding.
KEY FEATURES
Learn and Improve
• AI guidance: Receive real-time insights whenever your plays differ from the AI’s choices.
• Built-in card counter: Strengthen your counting and strategic decision-making.
• Trick-by-trick review: Analyze every move in detail to sharpen your gameplay.
• Replay hand: Review and replay a deal to practice and improve.
Convenience and Control
• Offline play: Enjoy the game anytime, even without an internet connection.
• Undo: Quickly correct mistakes and refine your strategy.
• Hints: Get helpful suggestions when you’re unsure of your next move.
• Claim remaining tricks: End the hand early when your cards are unbeatable.
• Skip hand: Move past hands you’d rather not play.
Progression and Customization
• Six AI levels: From beginner-friendly to expert-challenging.
• Detailed statistics: Track your performance and progress.
• Customization: Personalize the look with color themes and card decks.
RULE CUSTOMIZATIONS
Explore a wide variety of ways to play with customizable rule options, including:
• Kitty & deck size: Choose a kitty of 2 to 6 cards. The deck adjusts automatically, adding lower cards and an extra joker.
• Bidding rounds: Select single-round or multiple-round bidding.
• Nullo (Misere): Enable Nullo bids and set the value.
• Open Nullo (Open Misere): Enable Open Nullo bids and set the value.
• Double Nullo: Add Double Nullo bids and set the value.
• Slam bonus: Award a minimum of 250 points for taking all the tricks.
• Must bid to win: Cap defenders’ points to require a bid for victory.
• Inkle bids: Play 6-level bids as Inkle bids.
• Defender scoring: Decide if defenders earn points for tricks taken.
• Scoring system: Choose from Avondale, Original, or Perfect scoring.
• Misdeal option: Allow a misdeal when a hand has no aces or face cards.
• Game-over condition: Finish by total points or by number of hands.
DOWNLOAD TODAY
Play, learn, and master Five Hundred (500) – Expert AI. Enjoy a single-player Five Hundred experience designed for practice, strategy, or casual play. Whether you want to improve your skills or relax with an offline card game, play your way with a smart AI partner and opponents, customizable rules, and a fresh challenge every game.
This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Five Hundred (500) – Expert AI is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
• AI improvements.
• UI improvements.
Download & Availability
Five Hundred (500) – Expert AI is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Five Hundred (500) – Expert AI 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:
Everything runs smoothly! The AI plays well! The ability to make custom rules is great! The only thing that would be nice to see added is, in the statistics show the stats for double nullo. The rule set we play in person doesnt have open nullo, but does have double nullo.
Your partner will outbid you for no reason and not have the cards required for said bid. This happens, A LOT. Also, just the way the game is played, it seems like all the other players know exactly what they have and play optimized accordingly. Just isnt fun because it completely unrealistic.
Stop the stupid commercials. The game does not play the way we do in the Midwest.
Just like when the family would get around the table. We love the multiple configuration options. And we can tell the game is undergoing constant improvement. More options, better AI play. Addictive. One requestour house rule was to win the team had to make their bid. We played a game today where our opponent failed to make a bid but still ended with over 500 pts and was awarded victory. Minor issue.
The ai players throw some really stupid cards. For example, playing No Trump. Our partner has A,K,J,8,4 of hearts. Leads the 4. WHY?! This is just one of many examples. Frustrating.
Too many long ads with noise noise noise.
We cant believe we just found you for 500, well done, very well done This game is so good.
The game play is pretty poor, especially at playing no-trump. It often leads with the joker and whatever aces it has, then gets set spectacularly. And the bidding, at the 6 and 7 level in particular, is often absurd. It will often bid 6 with 3 trump and 7 with 4 trump, so as a partner you have no idea whether to raise.
The game is fun, but we would like to be able to link with friends and play online.
Make a online thing so we can play with friends then Ill give it a 5 star review.
This is horrible game play. If your partner calls trump and doesnt have the joker they lead off suit until the joker comes out. Giving opponents a chance to play their small trump. You are set the majority of the time they can trump.
We dont ever get the joker or rarely a winning hand.
Playing this app is how we learned to play 500.
The game is fun.. Plenty of options. The ai is good.. Our only concern is we did pay the fee not to have ads, but we still get ads every time we play we dont understand why that is.
We have been playing 500 for a year and it is very good. We love that is has so many custom settings that you can match the way you normally play the game with family/ friends. Or you can experiment with different options. This game has definitely made us a better player and has pushed us to be a more aggressive bidder, which is an important factor in winning. We win most of our games in the hardest setting, only because of our aggressive style. There are some quarks as sometimes your partner (the computer) will bid a hand that they dont have the cards to win. If this was a strategy to stay in the game when the other team Is about to go out that would be a smart move, but instead it is done at random points in the game, which is frustrating. We look at a 7 bid from our partner as a 6 bid knowing that we may need to carry the round. Overall this is a great game and you dont need 4 people to play just yourself.
Cant see how to get rid of ads. There are way too many and it makes the game annoying. Please help.
We played 500 growing up. Finally found this online and it does not disappoint. So very happy – its satisfying and enjoyable.
The hands are well executed and the graphics are commendable. However, the hands that East gets has him bidding almost every game and often opening at 7-no trump which just eliminates any auction bidding. Of the many, many hands played E-W take the bid 75% of the time. It should be programmed just the opposite for us gamers to enjoy.
Everybody in our family and everybody in our husbands family plays 500. We really enjoy this app, but the ads are too often and to intrusive.
Really gets frustrating when AI can see through your cards and wins almost every time. Just not fun.
Card game seems randomheavily leaning to computer.
Unable to close ad. No way to get around it.
We object to the violent and sexual game ads that Im subjected to.
We love to play this game! But its really frustrating when our partner constantly over bids us and then sets us. Aarrrggghhh! We want a better partner.
This is the best 500 game we have tried. We like the hints and the way it lets you go back to replay or change your bid.
Ads are annoying. We wish we could mute the sounds automatically or pay a reasonable amount to remove ads completely otherwise it is a decent game and layout.
Whenever an ad for Paid Out Brain displays, it locks the game and we cant get out of the ad.
East and west always get the better cards and the bid. Real life cards isnt like that.
You start bidding most of the time and hardly ever get to bid (crappy cards) while the other 3 players ( AI by the way) bid, you will get set way more than you will ever set the other players. The app developers forgot that the game is for the user to play.
The game itself we give 5 stars. We understand the need for ads to support a free app but really, do you folks actually review the ads before taking their money and using them? If so, better revamp your mission/vision/value statement as it is sadly lacking.
Worst game ever. Your partner will take tricks from you. They bid 8 with having 5 in a suit and only 1 card in the top 5 of that suit. Absolutely stupid. Do not waste your time with this one. Gave it one star because you cannot give it zero which is what it is.
We like playing except there is no way in real life would we get that many bad hands, just not fun.
Fun game, very realistic to how we play, but terrible at how many bad hands it will deal you in a row.if you played and kept getting these hands you wouldnt be happy, somebodys cheating.
1) no trump played way more often than not 2) opponent wins 90% of the time 3) can rarely bid because hands are either poor or player bids higher ahead of you (computer) 4) no way the dealing is random.
Its tough to continue to play when the cards continuously go to the opposing players! Game after gameit got old.
Ive been waiting for a good 500 app for a decade. This is it! Smart AI. Customizable rules. Really accurate and fun.
Really love the game and a bit of feedback would be the computers dont really make the smartest bids a lot of the time.
The long promised improvements to bidding have not been delivered. Suggestion: please do not allow the North partner to ever bid 7 of any suit without holding at least the joker or one of the bowers.
We have been playing 500 almost all our life. We agree withjuliaPGH about the bad computer partner plays. We also feel there are too many no trump Bids. No trump on a run without the joker is set most of the time. It is frustrating. But then again we understand it is a program and not a person.
Easy learning features and helpful coaching features.
We consistently get bad initial hands that are no fun to bid with.
Was invited to substitute in a card club and knew nothing about hearts. Used this app to teach ourselves prior to the first game. It really prepared us well.
Partner N secures the bid, he draws trump and leads a looser back, we take it and lead back the ace of a ace/king combo, our partner trumps our ace and leads back another looser which causes use to loose extra tricks – the AI knows little about card play – this has happened numerous times across their many card ga – frustrating and NOT fun.
We love playing the real card game, this program as a rule gives the player poor cards, thus you either cannot put in a good bid or the opposing computer is able to outbid and win. Dont download this game if you like the real card game.
West is the Declarer. The bid is Open Nullo. In 3 plays we will have eliminated 2 of the 3 diamonds West has and he will have to take the trick on the third play. We start by playing the 6 of diamonds, West plays the 5 and our partner, North, plays the Joker, taking the lead away from us. Why! North is holding no cards in his hand that can set West. Why take the trick? This happens all the time. The point of Nullo is to get the declarer to take a trick and the set gets destroyed when the opponent plays the Joker unnecessarily. So frustrating! But when we need North to take the lead by playing the Joker because he does have cards that can set the declarer, he does not play it. We need to check out other 500 apps.
Just added this game. Played 30 rounds with AI. 25 of them were Open Nullo bids. Not realistic. Will wait for update and try again but inclined to delete app without improvement.
We had reviewed previously and given 5 stars. This was based on how well the hand play had been programmed. The other players were really very smart and avoided things like overtrumping a partner. Other 500 games Ive played were just that bad. Anyway, after playing a while, Im tired of how often the other players bid NT, especially without the joker. Or Nullo. They go down often and take good hands away from us without any chance of winning. Frustrating. Hand play is great! But please work on bidding.
We love playing the game, so thank you for the work you have put into this app. We have a few issues with the computer (our partner) sometimes playing poorly. For instance, when it is clear only our partner and we have trump, our partner will lead trump, making impossible any hope of trumping each others losing cards. Often, we dont make a bid we could have easily made if the computer would not lead trump once the opponents show out. Also, our partner will interrupt in the middle of our no trump bid and running a long suit by playing the joker unnecessarily. Invariably, his/her hand is not good, and we lose the rest of the tricks while we are holding a winning hand. It gets frustrating.
Overall we enjoy this 500 card game app. A couple tweaks that we suggest. We have noticed that after taking a trump trick, computer players will follow by leading out with a bower. Just because one has the top trump card, team that doesnt have the bid should not lead out with trump. Also ones non bidding partner should always help the other by leading out with all their Aces. If we make the bid we are likely to have a couple dud cards in our hand. By partner playing all their Aces we can clean up our hand.
We wonder if you folks have ever played the game. When you repeatedly bid no-trump without stoppers in all 4 suits or the joker, and therefore go set most of the time, it demonstrates a complete lack on knowledge of how to play cards. On the plus side, the game does move quite rapidly.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 5.40
- Size: 32.15 MB
- iOS: 16.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: NeuralPlay, LLC
Last updated: 25th November 2025 | Genre: Card, Strategy | Developer: NeuralPlay, LLC