Bicycle Card Games

by Microsoft

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005QI6P
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 15, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,055 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Grab some pretzels and deal yourself in. Sit back and relax with a few hands of solitaire or crazy eights. Or finally master the art of bridge or pinochle. Bicycle Card Games gives you plenty of fun and easy ways to take a break. Included in this package are 15 classic games: bridge, canasta, cribbage, gin rummy, hearts, spades, solitaire (15 different versions), pinochle, card match, crazy eights, spite and malice, whist, oh hell!, old maid, and go fish.

From the Manufacturer

Grab some pretzels and seal yourself in. Sit back and relax with a few hands of Solitaire or Crazy Eights. Or finally master the art of Bridge or Pinochle. Bicycle Card Games gives you plenty of fun and easy ways to take a break. Get a taste of the fun and excitement coming your way with Bicycle Games!

Take a seat at our Card Table
All your favorites are here! Bridge, Hearts, Cribbage, Spades, Solitaire (a whopping 15 versions!) and many others.

Anyone can become a Card Shark
The animated characters can help you with the rules and strategies of the games you've always wanted to learn to play.

Play against a Mime or a Private Detective
Match your wits against any of the 12 unique and entertaining characters.

Choose the Way you Play
You get to set the game options, your skill level, and even the skill level of your opponents.

Try out the 15 new card games:

• Bridge
• Canasta
• Cribbage
• Gin Rummy
• Hearts
• Spades
• Solitaire (15 different versions)
• Pinochle
• Card Match
• Crazy Eights
• Spite and Malice
• Whist
• Oh Hell!
• Old Maid
• Go Fish

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the earlier Bicycle Games, December 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Bicycle Card Games (CD-ROM)

The bells and whistles, and the silly avatars don't enhance the games on this new Bicycle card games. The solitaire selections are less interesting than the first Bicycle solitaire, and my favorites, Spider and Forty Thieves are missing. One of the games doesn't work at all, and some are quite awkward.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy for pinochle, May 26, 2002

By 

Timothy J Zerwick (Schuylerville, N. Y.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bicycle Card Games (CD-ROM)

Many of the card games work fine but there are problems
with pinochle:
The deal doesn't rotate between players. The deal
stays with the same player throughout the game.
The same player will get "stuck" with the deal
the entire game.
Even at expert level the computer partner and
opponents play like novices.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this game for the bridge.., October 31, 2006

By 

John L. Wright (Ramstein AFB, Germany) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Bicycle Card Games (CD-ROM)

unless you are a glutton for punishment. You will be consistently dealt many bad hands. You will see many 4 - 6 point hands before you see one over 12. A quick survey of ten hands showed 7 hands with under 15 points between my partner and myself. As a result, you will be thrashed by your computer opponent. They give you three levels, easy, intermediate, and hard. You get the same bad hands with all. I don't see the difference.

In addition, your partner provide many insane bids. Very frustrating.

And its all too bad because the graphics are great, the presentation is logical, and even the music is good.

Its like they do a good job with everything but the card playing part.

It makes you wish they would come out with a new, upgraded version.

jwrit