I’ve just released Euchre 2.3.3. Included in this version is tablet support! I’ve tested on Honeycomb and Gingerbread (my hacked HP TouchPad) as well as the Kindle Fire. I hope you like it!
I plan on adding landscape support sometime in the future, keep your eyes peeled.
I picked up a TonidoPlug2 to act as my development server. So far I’m happy with it – other than nobody has any idea how to build a new kernel for it. It runs Debian Squeeze but you can replace it with whatever you want. Here are the benchmark results after running nbench
BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)
TEST : Iterations/sec. : Old Index : New Index
: : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
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NUMERIC SORT : 264.48 : 6.78 : 2.23
STRING SORT : 24.621 : 11.00 : 1.70
BITFIELD : 6.598e+07 : 11.32 : 2.36
FP EMULATION : 54.018 : 25.92 : 5.98
FOURIER : 231.85 : 0.26 : 0.15
ASSIGNMENT : 3.136 : 11.93 : 3.10
IDEA : 673.8 : 10.31 : 3.06
HUFFMAN : 353.63 : 9.81 : 3.13
NEURAL NET : 0.32701 : 0.53 : 0.22
LU DECOMPOSITION : 10.731 : 0.56 : 0.40
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX : 11.488
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 0.425
Baseline (MSDOS*) : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler 10.0
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
CPU :
L2 Cache :
OS : Linux 2.6.31.8-topkick1281p2-001-004-20101214
C compiler : gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8)
libc : libc-2.11.2.so$W5 (Debian 4.4.5-8)
MEMORY INDEX : 2.318
INTEGER INDEX : 3.361
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 0.236
Baseline (LINUX) : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
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Some of you seem to think that the shuffling in my Euchre game is how shall we say, unfair? Shuffling a deck is pretty simple stuff, so I’ve always been a little suspect of those claims. Maybe the random number generator I was using wasn’t that good? What if my algorithm had flaws in it?
I wrote a test case for it and performed 100,000 shuffles. I then counted up how many times you were dealt each card. If the shuffling was good, all the numbers should be roughly the same. Here are the results:
| You | Left Opponent | Partner | Right Opponent | |
| Ace | 83059 | 83640 | 83344 | 83236 |
| 9 | 83469 | 83125 | 83009 | 83713 |
| 10 | 83116 | 83260 | 83407 | 83739 |
| Jack | 83710 | 82848 | 83360 | 83222 |
| Queen | 83445 | 83392 | 83711 | 83101 |
| King | 83201 | 83735 | 83169 | 82989 |
So you can clearly see that the shuffling is statistically random. Added up it equals 2,000,000 cards worth (100,000 shuffles * 20 cards/shuffle). Looks pretty fair to me!
So all you people who think you always get 9s and 10s – you don’t!
Now you can enjoy Euchre not only on your Android device, but your iPhone as well!
It’s called Smart Euchre and features the same AI and interface.
A lot of you seem to have the impression that Euchre cheats and the computer’s play off of each other’s hands. I don’t know how I can reaffirm this, but they don’t cheat. They keep track of what is played and use that knowledge when deciding what to do. It’s everything a smart human player should do too.
If you want to discuss, send me an email or send me a tweet to @ToddJeffreys
I’ve finished the iOS Euchre port. It’s going to be called Smart Euchre. Look for it in the Apple Market shortly!
Euchre 1.12 is now live on the Market. Several users have noted that the call selection dialog would cover the tops of their cards, and this has been (finally) fixed in this version. I also fixed a statistics bug where the number of stuck calls won could end up higher than the number of stuck calls.
Enjoy!
I’ve posted an update to Euchre, bringing the version up to 1.8. New features in this build include a new computer AI setting – call style. You can control whether they’ll take risky calls or not. So if you’re complaining about them getting euchred too easily, just change their play style to cautious.
There was a fix to the AI going-alone logic so that they won’t call alone when all they need are two points to win. They also won’t pickup alone to their opponents when the top card is the right bauer! Thanks to the users for pointing this out to me.
Enjoy!
Thanks to EVERYBODY for downloading and trying my app! The user response has been amazing. I’m absolutely flabbergasted at how quickly it has grown with no marketing whatsoever. So to the users – THANK YOU!
Some of you already have, but please let me know if you have any feature requests!
It’s available on the Market. Search for Euchre (free). I’ll be releasing a paid ad-free version shortly.