Features - Version 4.1.5

• Quick and easy installation
• Simple point & click interface
• One person + computer partner vs. computer
• Advice for bidding portion of play
• Choice of card backs
• Variable playing speed
• Ability to assign player names
• Customized player risk level at bidding time (Slider bars)
• Scrolling play-by-play game summary (under View/Game Summary)
• Hidden cheat modes

• Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, ME, or NT
• 3 MB disk space
• 8 MB memory
• 66 mHz 486 or better

The game seems to pick a suit for you on the 2nd round of bidding. It doesn't actually call the suit. It just selects a suit (usually diamonds or clubs) from the radio buttons. All you have to do to get around it is change the suit and call it or just pass. It doesn't do it all the time and it doesn't interfere with the game play. If any astute VB programmers out there have any idea why a set of radio buttons would act this way, I could use a tip. I can't figure it out.

If the dealer calls a loner and the leader leads an ace, the leader's partner will trump the ace if he can. This is a strategic error. Everyone gets a little too aggressive when a loner gets called. The leader's partner should only trump the lead if it is not an ace in order to win the trick if the dealer has the winning ace.

Bugs fixed in 4.1.4:

• Improved play by the computer.

• The computer still didn't play trump when it should to win a trick. It should be fixed now.

• The computer doesn't play trump when it should to win a trick
• Everything fixed in 4.0.9 is included in 4.0.11

• Incorrect play during loners
• Application failures after loners
• Array index violation when clicking on kitty
• Failure to call diamonds on the 2nd round of bidding
• Cards showing up all black or unreadable