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Pinochle Classic – Family Game Review
Pinochle Classic is a Family/Card game from Games By Post LLC, first launched in 21st January 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,809+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pinochle Classic Stand Out
Improve your skills and become a Pinochle pro! Play single or double deck games with three different difficulty levels so you can work your way up to playing like a pro. Pinochle Classic has many settings so you can configure the game to play with whichever rule variations you prefer including: single/double deck, scoring in multiples of ten, game winning score, minimum bid, passing cards count, hints, undo button, and adjustable game play speeds for slow, standard, or fast play.
If you are new to the game, Pinochle Classic has an interactive tutorial to teach you how to play by guiding you through a single round of a game.
An analyze button can be turned on to help you evaluate your hand and pick a smart bid by simulating thousands of games and showing you likely round score outcomes. A hint button can be turned on to help you see what card the computer Pro player would play in your situation. Extensive statistics are kept for wins/losses, average contract, average meld, and average counters and success rate in making your bid.
All cards are dealt randomly to all players, so the difference between the Easy, Standard, and Pro computer players is in how well they remember what cards have been played and how they choose to play the cards they are dealt.
This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pinochle Classic is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd November 2023
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Download & Availability
Pinochle Classic is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Pinochle Classic 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:
This is the only pinochle app Ive played that can actually beat us- almost half the time. It does tend to be consistent so a couple of minor strategy tweaks could make it even more challenging. It occasionally crashes on our iPhone when we overuse the undo button but other than that, the app is great.
We love the fact that this gives us a way to start playing again, its only been more than 25 years.
The best Pinochle game Ive played. We have not seen how to play double deck. We would look forward to playing it.
We played Pinochle years ago and Im just getting back into it now. We love the analytics button that helps us determine what to bid. Getting better at it day by day. Like the graphics and the game play. Slow enough for our newbie brain to keep up with.
Fun, competitive, skill testing – one of the better free games.
Clear graphics. An ability to undo a play would have been helpful.
Challenging, the tip and analyze feature are nice. Not burdened down with never ending ads as found in other games. We recognize ads are necessary but these are not too intrusive.
After several days of playing Pinochle on the app, the game does not continue to work. We then delete the app and then we reinstall the app and continue playing. This problem happens continuously. Additionally the game should allow the app to declare a winner once it becomes obvious that there is a winner. When can we expect any answer to the above? When will you fix the problem. Now it is happening more frequently. Why cant you fix the problem. Does anyone read this problem page? Why cant the problem be fixed. We are one of several people who complain about the inability of your programmers to fix the problem. Why, why, why? Apparently nobody has the ability to solve the problems. Im still going to play but its annoying that your group either cannot solve the problems or you dont care! We still have that same problem, but now we are rebooting the app more quickly. Another problem occurs when you try to get out a higher trump card our partner discards a point card instead of a card with out a point value. Can this also be changed?Please fix the problems. Does anybody read the reviews.
Our big family (us, mom, dad, 9 brothers and wives) played Pinochle when ever we got together; single,double, 2, 4, and 6 teams at a time….!!! We're the only one left to play it so that's why we're going to continue playing til we can (we're 76 with dementia). We just played 2 games; won 1 and now going to play best out of 3!!!! Wish us luck! Thanks again for all our future fun too. Sylvia (Montreuil) White.
Fun game with a very Quik turn around, we havent seen any bugs or freezes.
Enjoy playing. Best pinochle game. Only complaint would be that stupid king. They brag of having no adds. They sure no how ruin other games. Way too long.
The undo button is great when you are learning or when you accidentally play wrong.
The only thing we dont care for are the annoying ads between each game.
Freezes during ads sometimes, just delete and reload the app.
Learned this today, never played before. Love it, already playing pros.. Love the hint button.
One thing we'd change is when our partner plays an ace on our ace yet we have a looser card. Occasionally we try to play looser first just in case but only if we have two looser cards. Lost our ace occasionally otherwise.
Fast paced with lots of options to change up game play.
We enjoy the game. The advertising which Is necessary is a pain every hand but game is good! Thanks.
Love playing keeps our mind working and when we do play the real game we are doing much better ..please keep this game dont change.
We used to play Pinochle a lot many years ago but havent for a long time. Now, we are alone and have located a group nearby so we downloaded this game to refresh. Its been great. We can analyze our bids and get hints. Its exactly what we needed. Love it.
Pass more!! Let your team mate bid more!! Yeah that part.
Havent played this card game in years. This app is a good refresher. Only complaint is the ads run way too long before you can x-out of them. Much longer than other ad driven games.
This game is fun and it helps you learn if you are a beginner to pinochle or the have expert level if you are advanced. We think you should try this game out because you will love it just as much as we do and we gave it 5 stars so have fun.
We havent played pinochle in many years. This was just the game to get us back in the game.
If you easily get addicted to games, then you dont want to play pinochle. We have been playing this app since June when our sister introduced us to it.
The closest we've found to the way our family has played for 50 years, with some very minor differences. Would be nice to be able to adjust the settings a bit more. We score a few things different.
Title says it all Enjoying learning the game Smooth intuitive interface Wish there was a portrait version.
Its a great game for beginners of this game. Ive seen people play in person, but could never understand what they were doing. This game gives a tutorial and breaks down the rules of the game very simple for someone whos just beginning. Excellent work.
Pinochle game is awesome! Helps us train & get better.
This is a great game. We havent played for years and this app has hints that helps you understand the strategy. It also has different levels that allows the player to slowly work up to a more challenging level.
We really enjoy this app. Easy and fun.
We enjoy playing almost every night. It helps us relax before we go to bed. We recommend very much.
Play this almost everyday several times! We were in a group that played almost every Saturday night for years and missed it so much when found this app we were so happy to get to play again.
So many times we will download a game only to delete it because of being disappointed. We love this game.
Fun game. We learned to play on the site Easy tutorial and you can play at your own pace.
We love this game and play it often but when we play theres a glitch when the hand is over, the deal doesnt start again. We have to sometimes close it out shut our phone down and restart it in order for it to start dealing again. We wish you guys would fix this. We love this game.
Love it. Reminds us of when our friends and we would play all night 50+ years ago. Case of beer and a pack of cigarettes Those were good times.
We played over 20 years ago. Great game To refresh our memory of the game.
Love the app, hate the ads. How do we get a pro version.
This is a fun and challenging game, easy to learn. Come back time and again to try to beat your best.
We have loved playing pinochle with our family for so many years . Nice to play any time we want.
Good app, realistic, but please add a button for when its obvious that the game is going to lose and not have to go thru every card play.
Brings us back to when we were a kid playing with our family members.
Great game but you cant finish a game it keeps coming up to restart a new game there is only one round then you start a new game not much fun.
Lots to learn, so as we do, we like the hint feature to see if what we were thinking of doing was anywhere near the idea.
Ive have had this app for a long time but recently it stopped reshuffling and displaying a new hand. We have deleted and redownloaded several times but still is not reshuffling and displaying a new hand. Whats up? Thanks for your help. JarrineLS.
You worked a lot of wrinkles out bc double pinochle your team mate would never make the connection. Our biggest problem is many of the ads for other games are disgusting. Its always helpless females and as a result we removed this app. But we did not like the other pinochle games we downloaded. So we are back yet again but first time we get ads for games with females as helpless victims we are once again out.
This game is so fun. We had trouble for a while because we had to start new game every time, and no running score was kept..frustrating but them we reloaded toe down load of app and all was ok! This is a GREAT app.
Im loving this game but lately it has stop loading after the first deal of the game. Whats going on? Please fix this bug.
The first time we ever played pinochle was via this app, and it is great. It is easy to follow, and we were able to move quickly from the beginner level to the next level.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.6
- Size: 50.27 MB
- iOS: 12 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Games By Post LLC]()
Last updated: 3rd November 2023 | Genre: Family, Card | Developer: Games By Post LLC