Last updated on May 31st, 2023 at 09:05 am
Jass
Jass is one of the best $1.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by Patrick Rapin, Jass is a Family game with a content rating of 4+.
It was released on 7th April 2009 with the latest update 24th October 2014
Whether you are a fan of Family, Card, or Lifestyle games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.
Rating
2 people have rated 2.4.0
You can download the game Jass from APP STORE.
Description
Jass (or Yass) for iPhone and iPod touch is a famous card game played mainly in Switzerland, Austria, and int other countries like eastern France, south of Germany. This application will let you play with 3 virtual players.
Its state-of-the-art user interface and its fine tuned artificial intelligence will give you hours of challenging games in a "Jass" environment.
Main features :
- Play with 3 virtual players
- Play online with other players on the internet
- Schieber, Schieber with chicane incl. Oben-abe, Unden-ufe
- Piquet or German cards design
- Adjustable game difficulty
- Adjustable game speed
- State-of-the-art user interface with intuitive usage
- Nice animations
- Great sound effects
- Application translated in English, French and German
- Manual card shuffle (put the iPhone/iPod on its side)
- Display last hand
- Players names and photos are customizable (double tap on a player to customize)
- Automatic game state saving and restore (Useful in case of interruption due to phone call)
Enjoy you Jass games !
Updated on 24th October 2014
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
iOS 8 compatibility, iPhone 5,6 and 6 plus compatibility
Jass Reviews
Hi. The computer player makes bad decisions enough of the time to impact the game play. For example in top down or bottom up they may not lead with the best card.
We give this three stars because we are playing from the US and can’t get online play or create an account. Our family has played this game for generations and the rules we play by are a bit different? But game play is the same. Thanks for making the app! Our family would love to play with the international group of players if the developers can write us in! We look foreword to playing with you all!
Crashed several times in a row by rebooting fixed the problem.
Our grandfather is from Swiss. He show us how to play. Please make an online mode.
Great game! Well worth it since we don’t have players nearby. It also lets our husband learn the game without us. Agree with the previous post about needing more variants. We find the slalom (alternating oben abe & unden ufe) and the half/half (4 of oa or uu followed by 5 of the other) particularly challenging.
Very well made, we love this game!!
V1 worked well. V2 crashes randomly, most often when we choose trump playing Shieber Chicane 2500. Bummer! Please fix the bugs! Love the new addition of Swiss German. Update: consistently crashes with iPhone 4…. Bummer again.
We learned how to Jass on a visit to Austria, years ago. Then discovered it was the fore-father of a game we always played in the States, called Euchre. We have since been spreading the word and teaching everyone we know about this challenging, complex, yet deeply satisfying game. Being away from Europe most of the time, we have craved such an app for our iphone. At last here is one. And it’s fantastic! Exquisitely designed and well thought-out, given the many afore-mentioned complexities. Our only complaint would be one that ultimately can’t be remedied until the Austrians make a contribution; that there would be a version with the terminology and cards we learned with– Laub, Schell, Goss, Bock, usw… And of course, some of the drama that one always encounters in a real game– the congratulations and dissapointments for Stich, Match, Gegenmatch and the hub-bub associted with such declarations– is missing. But, hey, we understand! This game is a serious accomplishment given how incredibly varied it is, in real life, from country to country, region to region, dorf to dorf. Well-done!
We could not play online yet though, no luck with account activation. It should be possible to have the activation e-mail re-sent, but we have not found a way to. UI improvement: when it’s our turn to choose the trump suit, our cards could be more visible, like full screen, not grayed out at the bottom of the screen.
Not yet, but the promise is there. I’d like to see more of the Jass variants added to the adaption of the game.