FAQs

Why Coppercod?

The name Coppercod came after an evening spent researching available domain names that were alliterative, colorful and included an animal. Coppercod was our favorite name available!

What is Coppercod’s most enjoyed game?

Gin Rummy is our most relaxing game to play and our favorite for unwinding. It is fast to play and has a slightly addictive nature, puling you back into several rounds! We’ve now created the highly requested follow up, Classic Rummy!

What is the best game for beginners?

Classic Whist because it is the basis for all trick-taking Whist games. It’s the perfect place to develop your skill and strategy while still challenging yourself against our AI on hard mode.

What is the hardest game to beat?

Bid Whist and Spades are our two trickiest games to learn because they are not simply about winning tricks to score the most points. It takes real skill to develop a strategy that competes with our AIs and their perfect memory in hard mode, and a good knowledge of trick-taking games! You can track your all time and session stats in settings to see your progress as you play and improve over time!

Are all the deals random?

All of our deals for each game we make are completely random. We don't have any set hands or deck manipulation in any of our games, you get the same chance of a good starting hand as any of the AI players. Coppercod believes in realism and fairness in our games above all else.

What are the differences between easy and hard mode?

The biggest advantage the AI players have over their human opponents is a perfect memory. When you set the game to hard mode, the AI remembers every card that has been played or discarded.

For example, in our Rummy games, the AI will remember every card that has been discarded, and every card it has seen another player pick up from the discard pile. In German Whist , the AI will know every card in your hand during the endgame, by combining all cards it has seen played during the foreplay, all cards it has seen you win face up, and all cards remaining in the deck that have not been seen. The specific advantage this brings is slightly different in each game.

In easy mode, the AI does not remember cards previously played, and only reacts to the situation presented when it makes a decision. This gives you as a player a big potential advantage.

Why does my partner sometimes make poor decisions?

The hardest thing about playing with an AI partner is not being able to communicate a strategy with them, or understand why they play a scenario in a particular way. However, our AIs are always consistent, so it is possible to learn their pattern of behavior and work in line with them to improve your results together. They are always trying to win!

Overall our target for partnership games is that in easy mode, the AI team win 40% of the time, and in hard mode they win 55% of the time.