Sheepshead, THE Game Release Notes

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1 Sheepshead, THE Game Release Notes Release 1.0 Initial Release Release 1.1 5/20/ Improved logic that determines when to play the Ace of Diamond and the Ten of Diamonds. Requested by BBaures. 2. Improved logic that determines the playing of the high trump card for the hand when playing in the fifth position of the current trick by the opponent. Requested by Dave the Developer. 3. Improved logic the determine when to play the Queen of Clubs on the first or second trick. Requested by BBaures. Release 2.0 8/2/ Added 2 new methods to determine partner. Call up after picking and Can t call up. 2. Added ability to allow doublers when hand is not picked. 3. Added ability to allow blitzing and to allow which cards to blitz 4. Added ability to allow cracking and to allow the picker/partner to crack back. 5. Added ability to show trick points on the message board. 1. Improved logic when Queen of Spades is led on the first trick. Requested by BBaures. 2. Improved logic when picker has the 1 st and 3 rd highest card on the 5 th trick. Requested by BBaures. 3. Improve opponent playing logic on the fifth trick by partner. Dave the Developer. 4. Improved logic that determines when to play the Ace of Diamond and the Ten of Diamonds. Requested by BBaures. 5. Improved picker logic in fifth trick when picker does not have high trump. Requested by BBaures. 6. Improved smearing logic. Requested by BBaures. 7. Improved over trump logic on a non trump lead. Requested by BBaures. 8. Improved logic that determines the playing of the high trump card for the hand when playing in the fifth position of the current trick by the opponent. Requested by Dave the Developer.

2 Release /24/ Add card ranking to determine which card to play when playing opponent cards. BBaures 10. Corrected issues with game sometimes now showing all the cards that were played on a trick. Dave the Developer 11. Improved logic on 4 th trick when opponent has 3 trump cards and the highest trump. Dave the Developer 1. Added Called Ace partner option. 2. Added ability to go alone when playing Jack of Diamonds Call Up Before partner option and Jack of Diamonds Can t Call Up partner option. 3. Added the ability to play the game using only the keyboard. 1. Improved logic on 5 th trick if opponent is leading and the opponent has high trump. Dave the Developer 2. Improved logic when partner plays trump on a trump lead. Dave the Developer 3 Improved logic on opponent playing Ace or Ten of Diamonds. Mike Putnam 4 Improved logic when picker plays trump on a trump lead and the picker has a weak hand. Mike Putnam 5 Improved logic for playing Ace and Ten of Diamonds. Dave the Developer 6 Improved logic for playing Queen of Clubs on first trump lead. Dave the Developer Release /12/ Partner will now play highest trump on second lead of non trump suit when sitting to left of picker and current trick winner is not a trump card. Dave the Developer 2. On first trump lead, if player leads trump and picker plays lesser trump, player will try and take the trick. Dave the Developer 3. If opponent and before partner, check to see if partner played trump on last trick before determining which card to play. Dave the Developer 4. If picker, check to see if opponents following the picker played trump on last trick before determining which card to play. Dave the Developer

3 5. If partner and after picker, check to see if opponents played trump on last trick before determining which card to play. Dave the Developer 6. Changed logic so partner smears picker on 5 th trick. Dave the Developer. 7. If picker blitzes Black Queens, allow partner to lead ace and ten of diamonds. Bill Baures, 8. If picker blitzes Black Queens, allow partner to play ace or ten of diamonds if picker leads queen of spades before queen of clubs. Bill Baures 9. On first trump lead, opponents won t try and take trick if picker declared going alone. Dave the Developer. 10. On second lead of non trump suit, the partner will not over trump the picker if picker and partner cards are of equal value. Bill Baures 11. If opponent had high trump cards 1 and 3 and picker or partner plays high trump card 2, the opponent will take the trick, Bill Baures 12. Correct problem in opponent was playing a card that caused the game to shutdown. Dave the Developer 13. Improved logic on determining if the opponent should trump in on the first trick when non trump is lead. Dave the Developer 14. Improved logic on determining how high a point card the partner should play when the partner does not have the suit that was led. Dave the Developer 15. Picker will no over trump the partner if picker has all card in play that are higher than the partner. Dave the Developer 16. On first trump lead, partner will lead its highest trump if picker is in on the end. Dave the Developer Release /25/ Corrected problem with gray box appearing while playing the game and the game closes when the close button is clicked. John 2. Corrected problem with not being able to set the voice speed to anything except slow. Dennis Release /03/ Corrected issue where opponent was not smearing the opponent team when picker was going alone. Christopher 2. Corrected issue where opponent over trumped another opponent on a non trump lead. Bill Baures. 3. Player led trump to picker when picker was going alone. Christopher 4. Fix problem when no trump was left in the game after the 4 th trick which caused the game to close. Dave 5. Fixed issue where opponent had 2 trump, QC and QH and played QH when picker played QS on first trick lead by partner. Bill.

4 6. Fixed issue when playing Called Ace as partner, you were the partner and the Called Ace suit was led the first trick and the picker picked before you. Bob S. and John S. Release /01/ Added ability to change the card table color, card back color, dealer identifier color, picker identifier color, button back color and button text color. 2. Added the ability to play a sound when a blitz or crack is declared. 3. Moved the position of the Deal button to eliminate automatic picks when the user has a sensitive mouse. 4. Change Voice Activated Playing (VAP) to allow the user to say the card number or the card name to play the card. The card number is defined in the help under playing the game with the keyboard. 5. Added a link to under the help menu. 6. Added the ability to change the player s name. 7. Removed the Standings window. Replaced it with a Statistics window. The Statistics window, along will displaying the standings, will also display game stats and player stats. The hands per game has been bumped up to 100 hands per game. 8. Added a beginner mode. If this option is checked, the game will display the remaining trump count, picking team points, opponent points and the points won on the last trick. 9. Added the option to play the Ace of Clubs through the Seven of Clubs as trump instead of the Ace of Diamonds through the Seven of Diamonds. 1. Corrected issue where game allowed you to lead a card of the suit of the called ace that is not the ace on the first lead of the called ace suit. Dave 2. Added logic for partner to play card with the lowest points in the fifth position if trump lead and cards are of equal power. Bill Baures 3. Corrected logic to determine if opponents following the current player have trump. Dave 4. Fixed issue where picker blitzed red jacks, was cracked and then cracked back and blitzed red jacks. Bill Baures 5. Added this logic for called ace. If on 5 th trick, if the called ace has not been played yet, if 2 trump left in game, the opponent has the lowest trump, the opponent will not play its card. The assumption is that the other trump is in the picker s hand and the picker is forced to play it on the fifth trick. Dave 6. For Called Ace as partner, added code to allow opponent to play ace or ten of diamonds if the opponent has no ace or ten of another not trump suit. Dave 7. Added logic to make you have a high probability of being partner if you blitz black queens or black jacks or red queens. Dave

5 8. Added logic to make player high probability of being picker if the player plays the a king or ten or ace of diamonds on a queen of clubs lead by picker and then on next trump lead of picker plays a lesser trump card. Dave 9. Added logic if partner is leading 4 th trick and not playing called ace and trump lead 3 times, play an ace if partner has one. Dave 10. Added logic if partner on the end and non trump owns the trick and partner does not have suit led, play ace or ten of diamonds or low trump. Dave 11. Improved the logic that determines if your high trump card is guarded by smaller trump cards. Dave Release /04/2011 Bug Fix 1. Corrected bug where picker could not play the in the hole card on the 6 th trick. This bug only happened if playing Called Ace as partner. Release /30/ Add this logic. If picker and playing in the 5 th position, do not allow opponent to take trick if that trick will give the opponent team more than 59 points. 2. Add this logic. If picker on the 5 th trick does not have high card and the remaining opponents do not have trump and the picker only has 1 trump, play the trump. 3. Add this logic. If opponent, on 5 th trick, if after the picker and partner played and opponent has the highest trump, play trump if the value of the cards played on the trick plus the high trump card point value > Improved the logic that determines partner probability. 5. Fixed issue where partner was not smearing picker when opponents to the left of partner were out of trump and picker was leading trump and the partner was out of trump. Bill Baures 6. Improved the logic to determine which card to play when the opponent is after the picker, it is the second lead of a non trump suit and another opponent has already played trump. Bill Baures 7. Add this logic. If picker and 5 th trick, if picker has 2 trump and the highest trump and there are 3 trump remaining in game, if opponent has trick with trump, play pickers highest trump. Bill Baures 8. Added this logic. When non trump is lead and picker has more than 1 card of the non trump lead and the picker is playing in the 5 th position and trump has not been played, try and take trick with the pickers highest non trump card 9. Improved the logic for opponent on the 5 th trick and the opponent is playing in the 5 th position.

6 10. If picker picked with 5 trump and kept ace up, keep leading trump until the 5 th trick. 11. Improved the card ranking logic. 12. Improve logic when partner leads a QS or QH. Bill Baures 13. Improved logic to un-guard high card if playing behind the picker and partner. Bill Baures 14. Improved partner logic when taking trick with trump in the 5 th position. Bill Baures 15. Added logic to set the partner to the picker if the picker buries the called partner card. Release 4.3 2/10/2011 Bug Fix 1. Corrected bug where partner leads trump and opponent would play a JC or better and the original trump count of the picker was less than 4. The game would shut down. 1. Add this logic. If 5 th trick and partner is playing before picker and points on the board are > 9 and current trick winner does not have the high card in the game, smear the trick 2. Improved opponent play logic on 5 th trick playing in the 5 th position with the high trump card. 3. Improved logic to determine which card the opponent should play on the 5 th trick when playing after the picker and partner and an opponent is the trick owner. 4. Improved logic that determines the player s partner probability. Bill Baures Release 4.4 2/25/ Added option to have the computer speak only certain messages that are displayed on the message board 1. Improved partner probability logic. 2. Improved picker trumping in when suit is lead logic 3. Fixed this logic. If playing Jack of Diamonds as partner call up before picking and a computer player picks and has the jack of diamonds before picking, the game would allow the picker to call the next highest jack that it does not have. Release 4.5 3/12/ Changed the trial period from 3 days to 30 days.

7 Release 5.0 7/29/ Added option for playing mode Amateur or Professional. See help manual. Herve G. 2. Added option for playing boss trump cards Power or Random. See help manual. Mike I. 3. Added option for allowing the picker to play the called ace suit card. See help manual. Mike I. 1. Fixed issue where the game allowed you to play a card not of the suit led when you had a card of the suit led. 2. Fixed issue where under certain conditions, the opponent under trumped the picker. 3. Fixed card ranking logic. 4. Fixed issues on set up window where the allow doublers checkbox could not be unchecked. Release /24/ Re-designed the Results window. 2. Added option to display which player is the partner when the partner card is played. Scott S. 3. Added an option that allows you to control the lead of the first trick using the play button. Mike I. 4. Changed game icon 1. Fixed issue where the game allowed you to play a card not of the suit led when you had a card of the suit led. 2. Fixed issue where the game did not choose a partner for called ace when the picker had all 3 aces and had a hand of three trump and three cards of the same suit. 3. Fixed issue where the opponent with the queen of clubs on the first trump lead would automatically play the QC when in the 5 th position when a lesser card could have taken the trick. 4. Corrected logic where the picker had more than 6 trump and did not go alone. Scott S. 5. Corrected issue where picker took the 5 th trick with its high trump card when the lesser trump card would have worked. Scott S 6. Corrected issue where opponent did not play high suit card when another opponent hand trumped in on a not trump lead with highest trump and was playing before the picker.

8 7. Corrected logic where the picker and partner have played, opponent has high trump and Power Trump option is turned on. The game would play the high trump card. Now it checks to see if a lower trump card would due. 8. Corrected logic on 5 th trick where picker had the only trump left in the game plus a high suit card. The game will now play the trump card. 9. Corrected logic on 5 th trick, Called Ace, picker going alone, picker has 2 trump out of 3 left in game, high trump and low trump. Picker trumped with high trump when remaining opponents had no trump. Corrected to use low trump. 10. Change the opponent trump logic when the opponent has high trump and other trump and the opponent leads the second highest trump. The opponent will now play high trump 11. Changed logic on 5 th trick when the partner is leading. If the partner has high trump and there are more than 3 trump left in the game, the partner will lead trump. Mike S 12. Fixed problem where if the partner was you and you were the leader of the first trick and you wished to not lead trump, you could not lead a not trump card. 13. Improved card ranking logic. 14. Add this logic. If opponent is leading on trick 5 and has high trump and there are less the 4 trump remaining in the game and opponent has a buck suit card, the opponent will lead trump 15. Improved logic to determine where an opponent will play a small trump card or a 10 or Ace card not of the suit led 16. Improved logic for picker when opponent lead the same suit more than once. Mike I. 17. Improved the logic for the opponent when the opponent has his high trump guarded more than once and his guarding trump cards are less than the Jack of Diamonds and he is playing before the picker on the first trump lead. Mike I. 18. Improved the logic for the opponent playing the Queen of Spades on the first trump lead. 19. Improved the logic for opponents leading called ace suit. Mike I. 20. Improved logic when partner is in the 5 th position, the opponent is in the 4 th position. 21. Correct logic when you pick with 2 trump playing called ace and you discard an invalid card. 22. Correct logic on first trick where an opponent was un-guarding its highest trump 23. Improved logic for partner leading trump on the 4 th trick 24. Corrected logic when determining if players following the current player have trump. 25. Improved discard logic for called ace

9 26. Corrected logic to determine if you, playing called ace, discarded the correct cards when you have 4 trump, 3 aces and a ten 27. Corrected logic for opponent on 5 th trick if opponent has 2 trump and suit card led has been led before. Changed to play high trump. 28. Change logic for partner on fifth trick playing in fifth position after the picker. If partner can t take the trick, play the card with the least amount of points 29. Changed logic for jack of diamonds. On fifth trick and partner has not shown, the picker will take the 5 th trick. 30. Change logic for opponent on fifth trick playing in fifth position after the picker. If opponent can t take the trick, play the card with the least amount of points Release 5.2 3/17/ Corrected issue on statistics window where the corrected player name is not displayed. 2. Add new option to display the In The Hole card when it is played. For Called Ace only. Ted B. 3. Added Replay button to allow the hand to be replayed. Stephen S. 1. Improved logic to determine the current trick owner when partner has a chance to trump in. 2. Improved card ranking logic for opponent on 5 th trick. 3. Improved logic for opponent trumping trick on 5 th trick. Mike I. 4. Improve logic for picker putting highest point card on fifth trick when partner has the trick and opponents after the picker have no trump. Bill B. 5. Improved logic on 1 trick with opponent sitting in 5 th position. Bill B. 6. Improved logic when non trump suit is led second time and partner trumps in front of picker. Bill B. 7. Improved logic for Jack of Diamonds partner on 5 th trick. If only trump remaining is pickers trump and the called jack and if opponents have trick, take trick because partner will take last trick. Bill B. 8. Improved trump in logic on fifth trick for picker. 9. Improved opponent playing logic on first trick, playing after picker. 10. Improved logic for partner play high suit card on 5 th trick playing before the picker. 11. Improved the picker leading logic when picker leads Queen of Clubs and then has high trump on second lead of trump 12. Improved the picker leading logic on the 4 th trick and trump has been led 3 times. 13. Improved the opponent logic where the picker blitzes black queens and leads the QS or QH. Bill B.

10 Release 5.3 8/9/ Improved the opponent trump in logic when the card led has already been led and the partner type is not called ace and the opponent is after the picker and the called jack card has yet to be played. 15. Improved the opponent trump logic when picker blitzes black queens, leads qc or qs and then the next lead is not a black queen. Bill B. 16. Improved logic on 5 th trick, picker leading, picker has 1 trump and high off suit. Bill B 17. Improved logic on 1rst lead of trump. The opponent would un-guard its high trump card. It will no longer do this. 18. Fixed illegal lead on 5 th trick by partner when calling called ace. Mike I 19. Improved logic for determining when the picker should go alone. Mike I 1. Added identifiers on the game window to the show players that blitz and or crack. 2. Added ability to change the colors of the blitz and crack identifiers mentioned in item Changed the picker sound option to include and blitzes or cracks 1. Corrected issue on 4 th trick where partner is leading and game closes. 2. The game was not allowing the player to discard the proper cards when the player had 3 Aces and a ten and playing called ace. 3. Improved the playing of the cards when the opponent was positioned after the picker and before the partner and the partner played trump on the previous hand. 4. Improved the playing of the cards on the 5 th trick by the partner when the partner has a trump, but not the high trump and a high off suit card 5. Fixed issue where the game would shut down when the partner was leading on the 3 rd or 4 th trick and the partner was trump tight. Bill B. 6. Added logic for called ace when trump was led, the opponent has high trump, called ace has not been played and the opponent has the called ace suit. The opponent will take the trick. 7. Changed logic on first trick when picker goes alone, and trump is not led and the current owner of the trick has played after the picker, the player will schmear. Release 5.4 8/14/ Corrected issue where the game illegally played the called ace suit on a trick. John J. Release 5.5 9/16/2012

11 1. Replaying a hand will not affect the current game statistics or the player statistis. John J. 1. Added logic to play high trump in hand when opponent is in the 4 th position and picker has the trick and partner is on the end. 2. Fixed logic when the picker did not lead the Ace of the Called Ace suit and picker had declared the 10 as partner because the picker had all 3 aces. Mike I. 3. Improved logic when opponent has high trump in game on the 5 th trick. 4. Improved logic when opponent has high trump in game on the first lead of trump. 5. Improved logic on 2 nd lead of trump and opponent has high trump. 6. Improved logic on 1rst lead of trump playing called ace and opponent has high trump 7. Fixed error when playing called ace and the human player picked, had 2 aces in hi hand and the game would not allow him to discard the 2 aces. John J and Ted B Release 6 2/10/ Added Beginner mode of play. This replaces the Beginners option. The game will now offer the player a suggestion on what card to play. John J. 2. Changed the default color scheme 3. Simplified the statistics kept by the game. 1. Corrected issue with Called Ace where a legal discard was telling the player it was an illegal discard. 2. Numerous changes to improve the card playing logic Release 7 1. Corrected Play Sound Option Picker/Partner not producing any audio. 1. Corrected scoring logic error when playing Jack of Diamonds Can t Call Up when picker has the JD. 2. Correct issue where the game allowed the human player to play the called ace on a non called ace lead. This only happened when the partner cracked back. John J. 3. Corrected issue where the partner could not play the called ace on the last trick. Michael O. Release 8

12 2. Added an option to display the blind if all players pass and leasters are not being played. John J 3. Displayed the word 'Replay' on the window and the Replay button is clicked. John J 4. The game will now show the discard until the first card is led. 5. Revised the Set Up window to make it easier to find options 4. Corrected scoring logic error when playing Jack of Diamonds Can t Call Up when picker has the JD. 5. Correct issue where the game allowed the human player to play the called ace on a non called ace lead. This only happened when the partner cracked back. John J. 6. Corrected issue where the partner could not play the called ace on the last trick. Michael O. # - The name behind the enhancement is the player that suggested the improvement