Granny Hand — Sheepshead

Granny Hand is four-handed Sheepshead with the 24-card deck: queens, jacks, aces, tens, kings, and nines. The black queens are partners. Call an ace when you need help, go it alone when you don’t. It’s the version played at family holidays for decades, built by someone who couldn’t find an app that played it this way.

PLAY
• Three computer opponents with eight distinct personas, from Rookie to Gambler to Team Player. Set each seat yourself, or let the table reshuffle the seating.
• Opponents that reason about partnerships: as the cards fall, each computer player tracks who is likely on which side and plays its seat accordingly.
• Called ace, play alone, call it off, doubles after a 60–60 tie, and an optional house rule that forces a call-off with five or six trump.
• A live score bar and a trick-by-trick history grid during the hand. Both can be switched off.

LEARN
• A guided tutorial in three lessons: reading your hand and picking, winning tricks and schmearing, the called ace and identifying teams.
• Table talk: after a hand, a player at the table points out your costliest plays, with the numbers to back it up. On devices with Apple Intelligence the remark is phrased by the on-device model; otherwise it uses built-in wording. Either way it only ever comments on what the hand actually shows.

REMEMBER
• Every hand is recorded: who picked, what was called, and every card in the order it was played. Star the decks worth keeping, and share any deal as a challenge link so someone else can play the same cards and compare results with yours.
• Player statistics with sparklines for stakes and final scores, win rates, and breakdowns by role, for you and, with the Player Stats purchase, for each computer player.
• Game Center leaderboards for total wins, total games, win rate, and win rate when playing alone, plus dozens of achievements for the hands worth bragging about, like being dealt a granny hand.
• Your history syncs through iCloud, so it follows you between devices. You can clear it any time.

MAKE IT YOURS
• Five table colors, four card backs, and an optional four-color deck.
• Sort your hand by power or by point value. Choose which side the table sits on in landscape.
• Designed for iPhone and iPad, with a layout for each.

Free for your first week, then five decks a day. A one-time Unlimited Play purchase removes the daily limit and unlocks deck replay; Player Stats unlocks statistics for the computer players. No ads. Your game data lives in your own iCloud account and Game Center, nowhere else.