Ultimate 500 Lite8.7 - App Store

The free version of the ultimate 500 card game with following features: -

- Play against intelligent AI opponents.
- Play against friends on same device using pass and play
- Take photo's or use images on your device to appear as your card table or the card's themselves!
- Customise rules to allow different variations of your game as per the 500 wiki.
- Undo feature after each move
- Intelligent Suggest feature to recommend what to bid or even what card to play
- Ability to control game pace between tricks and between games
- Local leaderboard to keep track of all game statistics
- Play in landscape or portrait on iPad with improved interface

Any bugs, support questions or ideas for improvements please go to Facebook Community page http://www.facebook.com/ultimate500community

Version History - Allow bid scores to be closed by pushing on image
- Moved text so that current bid can be seen by player
- Optimised banner so not covering any text 8.7 03/05/2024 - Fixed bids cores to not overlap with ads
- Improved orientation detection on iPad 8.6 03/04/2024 - Updated for latest version of iOS 8.5 12/28/2022 - Resolved some interface background color issues 8.4 10/31/2021 - Updated for iOS 15
- Fixed some background color issues
- Removed full screen ads 8.3 10/03/2021 - Support for iOS 14
- Fix for font issues with iOS 14 8.2 10/01/2020 - Fixed issue when combining Newcastle bidding with 6 bid redeal - system will now allow you to rebid properly 8.1 04/13/2020 - Added feature to allow the reset of a hand from the offline menu that will not clear all scores in solo game 8.0 03/22/2020 - Fixed bug with undo in No Trumps - where disallowed joker suits were not getting reset correctly 7.9 03/11/2020 - Improved AI trump play 7.7 02/18/2020 - Improved No Trumps joker lead logic 7.6 02/06/2020 - Improved kamikaze logic when using No Trump indicative bidding 7.5 01/26/2020 - Improved kamikaze bidding AI 7.4 01/14/2020 - Improved usurp control logic during No Trumps games 7.3 01/03/2020 - Fixed issue with kamikaze bidding when opponent is already above 500 when not necessary
- Fixed issue with Setup screen on iPhone defaulting to password text entry
- Fixed issue with turn sequencing when playing No Trumps and game locking when selecting Joker out of turn 7.2 01/03/2020 - Fix for kamikaze bidding where AI was not considering undeclared slam properly 7.1 12/31/2019 - Fix for kamikaze bidding where AI was not considering joker properly for a No Trumps hand when overriding 7.0 12/08/2019 - Fixed issue where AI will discard higher card than ideal if it perceives all are winners
- Fixed issue where AI will leave partner on 7 spade bid when scores are over 500
- Rewrote kitty discard logic for misere and open misere 6.9 12/02/2019 - Improved AI bidding if player and opponent bidding same suit
- Improved No Trump joker play
- Improved logic when deciding when to play final trump 6.8 11/15/2019 - Improved offsuit vs trump balance when AI bids 6
- Switched Rules and Menu buttons to place Menu at top
- Moved Tip button to centre for iPhone 6.7 11/12/2019 - Fix for Indicate Joker - resolved issue where AI would assume literal 7 spade call after 6 No Trumps under certain conditions
- Added Exit Game and View/Set Rules to the Menu button 6.6 11/10/2019 - Moved abandon game button into a popup menu along with setup, game review and tutorial
- Fixed issue with AI determining when to bid No Trumps
- Improvements to kamikaze
- Change the random card generator to better deal with modulo bias
- Improved discard kitty logic for offsuits
- Improved No Trump Joker play 6.5 11/09/2019 - Added dark mode compatibility 6.4 10/17/2019 - Fix for iOS 13 issue - screens not refreshing properly 6.3 10/03/2019 - Improved No Trump AI Play to not always play highest card when not necessary
- Improved No Trump AI Play to lead highest and not take risk with low lead unnecessarily
- Improved AI decisions when leading offsuits
- Fixed bug with bidding where AI would bid indicative No Trumps when partner passed 6.2 09/17/2019