42 Dominoes Hack 3.0 + Redeem Codes

I agree w another review that even w the smart partner option, the computer is not strong. As a teammate, in cases where it becomes obvious that the only trumps remaining belong to your team, it will continue exhausting trumps and forcing them from your hand unnecessarily, which often leaves you to to leadoff position but no more trumps and just bad off dominoes remaining. As an opponent, when it becomes obvious that it’s teammate has the strongest domino and that it will not be trumped, the computer will often refuse to add count to the hand and thereby set your team. IE sometimes you end up winning when you shouldn’t. Idk. Decent but not strong CPU. Technical issue the “tap” option doesn’t work, you have to hold it down for a long time to highlight trump dominoes in the betting round.

As a long-time player of 42, I know all the rules for 42. The main flaw is how the AI computes the scores. I just finished a hand and the AI recorded the last trick to my opponent. By doing this, I lost that hand. I had the bid. Trumps are gone. Last trick I played a double blank, my opponent played a double 4, my partner followed the suit, and the last player (my opponent) played a 6-4. Up until this last trick--not set. By my calculation, my double was a walker and I won the points. My game should have been recorded as a win. I went into detail to show this app will make such recording errors regularly. Also, in the stated rules shown in their menu, it is stated that doubles can be a suit of their own in nello. I wish the game creaters would add this as an option to the game. Such an option gives the players more possibilities in bidding. I've played nello with this option for many years--more fun. Otherwise, I enjoy this app. Finally, I wish there were more app choices for Texas 42 for us 42 players to choose from.

Game is good except for one big problem. Even though I paid for a “smart” partner and challenging competition, I don’t feel like I got that. Partner and opponents continually make rookie mistakes. Partner doesn’t seem to be able to recognize when he and I have all the trumps (or all of any suit), and doesn’t seem to have the ability to utilize the strategy of holding on to a trump to catch count that opponents are holding on to. When we both have all the trumps, he will play all of his trumps, even when he has other doubles in his hand, pulling all of the trumps out of my hand, and often causing us to lose the hand. Very frustrating. He and opponents also sometimes fail to play count when it’s obvious, or likely, that their partner is going to win that hand. Also sometimes fail to play a double when they should to win an important hand. Also very frustrating. In spite of these, I still play it. It has pretty good overall functionality. Just EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING when “smart” partner repeatedly makes stupid plays.

Two main issues, first, when the computer is forced to take the bid, it often just chooses blanks. It seems it would be easy to at least just set it to make trump the suit the computer has the most of. I’ve actually had it make trump blanks multiple times and it didn’t even have a blank. Second, the computer will play trump as long all the trumps are not in. So, if the computer and its partner are the only ones with trumps it will pull the trumps from the partner. This almost never happens. Other minor issues: sometimes the computer should be able to tell it’s partner is going to win a trick and thus play count. Sometimes it doesn’t. When the computer goes low, it struggles determining which domino to slough. For example, it will often slough a double blank, when there is no way the opponents could lead to the double blank. Having said all this it is still fun and there just are not that many 42 apps available.

This is a good rendition of 42. Overall it plays pretty good games. I’ve played many 100s of times. So it is fun to play.

But I’ve noticed 2 major flaws. First, the teammate game play leads trumps even when opposing teams is without trumps weakening partner’s hand by draining their own trumps. It doesn’t matter if teammate has other non-trump leads/winners.

Second and more subtle is an observation that shake randomization is weak. The side affect is you tend to get similarly close groupings of dominos for an entire match. I guess that you get more practice with playing certain groupings of dominoes, but it creates an unrealistic game at times. The randomization seed seems to be reset after relaunching App for a new match. The repeatability trend of this issue seems to imply that the interactive bone picking feature is bogus and App just assigns you its randomized set of bones. It’s fun to think that different picking patterns may yield more random hands, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.

I grew up playing straight dominoes, 42, and moon, so was happy to discover this; however, I have uncovered a flaw or two in the game design. When the game setting is set to force a bid and when my partner is bidding last and has to bid, blanks are always chosen for trump even without any blanks in the hand! Another thing I noticed, when my partner is playing a domino in the trump, it appears no consideration is given to strategy. For example, the trump is 3 and my partner has 3/2 & 3/1 and 3/3, 3/6, and 3/5 are already played with 3/4 still out, my partner plays 3/2, often giving away points.

My “smart” partner bid with 2 as trump. 2/2, 2/6, 2/5, 2/1, & 2/0 were played. My partner still had 2/4 & 2/3 along with 6/6, 4/4, & 5/1; however, instead of playing a trump or double, the partner led with 5/1, with the opponents taking with 5/5 and tossing in 5/0.

A mediocre player would play better than this “smart” partner.

Extremely frustrating! Although the game is 42, the partners are relatively “stupid.” Though this is the case for all the computer players (even your opponents), so at least that is fair. The most recent example, which has happened multiple times - I didn’t have the double for my trump, so I played a lower trump to pull it in. My partner played count (the 6/4) even though he couldn’t have known if I was faking or not (I wasn’t). It cost the game. Also, the game nickels and dimes you to get better partners, to play for more marks, to make the game more difficult, to play Nel-O, to make the last player bid if no one else has (it just re-shuffles for the table), etc. It’s $.99-$2.99 per option or $9.99 for all of them. If I knew the developers were using the money to create a game where you could play with real people versus computers, I’d be ecstatic, but it seems steep just for options (especially when I don’t know if the partners will be any more intuitive or better).

The computerized partner will make bad moves like bidding 2 marks when you’re only 1 mark from winning and then losing the second trick because they didn’t have a high trump. If you move the difficulty up to hard you spend more time passing than playing. At that point you need to pay to force the last person to bid.

It would be nice to be able to bid Plunge or to make the partner be a little smarter like not playing a trump to steal the lead from you when they have the last trump left and you’re trying to finish by playing a bunch of doubles.

I got this game to learn more skill and technique since my family plays so much and are basically professionals. I know my partner is a computer, but I’ve lost countless times bc my partner could’ve caught it and didn’t. Example/ We’re winning a 31 hand, i throw out my five off (5/4), next person 5/3, my partner 5/blank, and then last 5/6. that put the other team in the lead. They throw double 6 and my partner throws double 5 on there when it wasn’t beneficial in anyway, and that could’ve won us the game if they threw it in the previous turn. It happens constantly, and even ppl in real like know when to throw a double. It’s ridiculous bc you’re supposed to have your partners help, but they just screw me over every time. Not. Cool.

Whoever programmed this app does not know how to play 42. First if you have no blank’s don’t call them as your trump. 2 when you are in the lead play doubles not the 6/4. 3 of you and your partner are the only one with trumps throw an off not another trump pulling trumps out of your partners hand. 4 when you the throw an off don’t throw count. 5 also don’t lead with a 5 , 6 , or 4 if you don’t know where the double 5 or 6/4 is. 6 if you’re partner throws a double don’t trump it. 7 if you’re partner throw a double throw count if you can don’t hold on to it to the end of the hand. 8 even if you think you can make 36. You can bid lower . 8 where is “plunge” and 7’s . 9 in nelo doubles catch doubles only. The programer is definitely not a Texan