Grand Gin Rummy: Fun Card Game

This is the best Gin app I could find and I tried a lot of them. The features that make this one outshine the competition are great graphics, a level up program with rewards that keeps you working toward goals, the ability to play against real people, and the chip system which provides actual consequence to the games. The best part is the last item on the list - the chip system. How it works is you start off with a certain number of chips and you have to give some up to play. If you win, you get more chips then you started with. If you lose, the chips you paid to play are gone. If you lose all your chips, you have to buy more with real money to keep playing. Don’t worry, it’s cheap. But that real money element helps the games actually mean something. Here’s the best part though - you get a stash of chips once a day for free just by logging in. So if you never want to spend real money on the game, all you have to do is log in once a day for a few days and you’ll be back in action. It’s a system that keeps you coming back for more as compared to other apps where you just stack up meaningless points. This is truly a solid app all around. If you like Gin, download it without hesitation!

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This is a very fun app. I have one issue, that is big enough to make me keep leaving the game and deleting the app. I’ve tested this 3 times now and it cannot be a coincidence. When you first start using the app you have the free coins and it seems as though you are mostly winning and/or having some good game battles even if you don’t win. Once you, at some point, run out of coins and you purchase some or let the coins build per day, the games suddenly and dramatically change. You lose a lot more and quickly. If I had not gotten suspicious of this the first time I uploaded this app I am now. I deleted the app and tried again months later by re-uploading it and started fresh again as a new player. Same thing. I deleted it and actually forgot all about the game for about a year. I recently remembered it and re-loaded again with the idea to test and confirm. It followed the same path. For me to have an enriching game experience I have to delete the app once it gets to this point and start fresh as a new player. This prevents me from leveling up very far, but gives me a better game playing experience. After this 3rd try, I’m convinced your game is set up this way to purposely try and get you addicted and then get you to try and spend money. I realize that most games want you to spend money but to make the odds become noticeably different makes me feel As though nothing about the skill needed to play is worth a darn. Very disappointed.

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Smooth graphics and good UI, but always lose in games, win rate is extremely low. Cards that I received are always hard to match and the system just don’t give me a good time to draw the cards I need, waste too many chances and opponent win easily. That made me wonder why the opponents are always have “better” luck than me? Why the system always give good cards to opponents that they always can easily have the right match. Enter a game with 300 coins, and daily bonus is only 80. Do the math, and the game just try to get your Facebook connection and make you easily lose, when you don’t have enough coins, you’ll purchase. Low win-rate to make people purchase coins to keep playing. Good economic strategy, but at the end I’ll just lost any interest to play. End up just delete the game. Sympathy is, when a person downloads a game that keep making him/her lose, how can that person ever have hope? Only frustration left, and customers are not blind to realize the low win-rate is a way to make them spending money to buy coins and keep playing. Turn out, I feel sorry but I had to delete the game. I feel pity on it, since the graphics is so nice. I like the UI anyway. Nice try, but not much nice memory for me to keep.

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When I first started, I won often. At least held my own. The problem lies with the fact you Pay say 4000 chips for a game but can only win 2000 extra or 6,000 including your initial bet. So one game nets the "house" 2000 coins automatically. Yet the give tiny daily coins (no where near enough to play one game. Even if you win 75% of your games you will likely run out of chips. When you play different levels you will see the same "people". With names like Rose, Winnie, Betty which just don't sound real. Once in a while you know you're playing a real person but often it feels like a bot. Even though I'm playing the same person I just left (i.e.:Rose) on a 6,000 entry, on an 8000 entry shell beat me. I've only won one game in the highest entry. So won't play them any longer. It's fun. I'll have to be satisfied playing practice modes or 300 coin levels from now on because I refuse to buy more coins. Which is sad. I wouldn't mind buying some occasionally but there is no incentives or specials. Just not enough interaction for the cost. Plus you can't type anything except send an emoji. I'm absolutely not convinced I'm not playing a bot. They shouldn't take so much from each game played for the house. They should offer special incentives for those who did purchase. They should do small tournaments at decent entry's instead of mega tournaments. I did love the game. But was short lived.

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What Kristi wrote is absolutely true. You get great “luck” with free coins and as soon as you make a purchase, or when you gamble big, your “luck” changes dramatically. I’ve spent $90 playing this game and am at level 50. $90!!! That’s nearly double the price of an Xbox or PlayStation game I can play forever. And the daily free coins aren’t even enough to play one game. Also... The emojis you can use to express yourself remain the same, yet some of the players I suspect to be coin-robbing bots always use a horned-kitty emoji that the rest of us don’t have. Suspicious. And to top it off, multiple people have user names like GAMEISRIGGED or RIGGEDGAME meaning this isn’t an uncommon opinion. I love the game. It’s done so well and has hooked me in, but the price is too high for a game that I’m certain is cheating us out of paid coins. Sure. You shuffle. But it’s a game and it’s programmed to cheat. Period. Last comment. My 3 year old got into the game and spent $20 of coins “playing”. Literally lost all my coins in the 20 minutes he gets on my phone. I sent a message to the programmers because I’m sure they can see the games were played without any know-how and probably were never even finished. No refund. Just advice to lock my phone. I’ll be deleting this app when my last 200 coins is gone.