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TrickSheet is a digital score pad for trick-taking games with bidding, the kind where everyone announces before the round how many tricks they intend to win. Each round you enter only the bid and the tricks actually taken; the app scores hits and misses, keeps the running total and files every game in the history. For 2 to 6 players, free and without ads.

For any trick-taking game where each player bids the number of tricks before the round and the hand size rises and falls from deal to deal. In English that game is best known as Oh Hell, and it also goes by Contract Whist, Nomination Whist, Blackout, Judgement and Up and Down the River. Wizard tables score the same way, and TrickSheet ships a dedicated scoring style for them.

Wizard is a registered trademark of US Games Systems, Inc. The name appears here only so you can tell what kind of games night the pad is meant for. TrickSheet is an independent score pad with no connection to that company.

In classic scoring, a bid you make is worth 10 points plus the number of tricks bid. Miss it and you lose whichever is higher, the bid or the tricks actually taken. So a bid of 3 that comes off is worth 13 points; the same bid with only one trick costs 3 points.

In Wizard scoring, a bid you make is worth 20 points plus 10 per trick, and every trick you are off by costs 10 points.

There are three switches: the scoring style (classic or Wizard), the Oh Hell hook rule, where the sum of all bids may not equal the number of tricks in the round, and the round structure. The chosen rules apply to the whole game and are recorded in the history, so you can still tell later which rules an evening was played under.

The default is the classic 20-round game: up from one card to ten, then back down to one. The largest hand size can be set anywhere from 3 to 13, and instead of up and down you can also play upwards only. A game with a peak of 7 in both directions therefore has 14 rounds; upwards only makes 7.

For 2 to 6 players. One device is enough for the whole table: TrickSheet is the pad, you play with your own cards. Who leads rotates automatically from round to round, and the app can also pick the first dealer at random.

Yes. The last round can be taken back and re-entered, even after the game has already finished. A slip while bidding or counting tricks does not cost you the evening.

Yes. TrickSheet saves your game in progress automatically after every entry. If you leave a game via "Menu" or close the app, no progress is lost: a "Resume game" card appears on the main menu so you can pick up right where you left off.

If you start a new game while one is still in progress, the app asks for confirmation first so you don't accidentally discard the saved game.

Yes. Via AirPlay the score moves to the big screen: everyone sees the current bids, the points and the progression while you tap on the iPhone. The layout is built for the distance across a living room, with large type and clear colours.

Yes. A player group can be shared with the others at the table, across separate Apple Accounts too. Everyone sees the same games and the same statistics, with no shared login and no account with the developer, because sharing runs through iCloud. Individual results can also be sent as a message via the share function.

A group collects the games of one particular circle, for example family, pub and work. Each group has its own statistics and its own last line-up, so the family tally does not get mixed up with the one from the club. You can switch at any time and saved games stay in their group.

The app saves your results automatically on the device and syncs them to your other devices through your private iCloud. On top of that, TrickSheet writes a per-group backup to your iCloud Drive after every finished game; without iCloud it stays local. When restoring you choose whether the backup is merged with what is already there or replaces it.

Yes. Renaming carries the statistics along. If you enter a name that already exists, the two entries are merged, so two half tallies become one whole again. That helps when the same person once went in as "Bas" and once as "Sebastian".

TrickSheet works entirely offline; the internet is only needed for iCloud syncing and for sharing a group. There is no account with the developer, your game data lives on your device and in your private iCloud. There is no advertising and no tracking.

The app is operable with VoiceOver, every button can be addressed by Voice Control, and text scales with the iOS setting for larger text. The progression graph tells players apart by symbol as well as by colour, so it does not depend on colour alone, and the reduced-motion setting is respected.

TrickSheet is available in nine languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian. The app follows your device's system language automatically.

No, TrickSheet has no premium mode. All features are completely free. If you like the app, you can support development via the donation tip jar inside the app.

The app used to be called "Stiche Ansagen" (German for "Call Tricks"). With the international name TrickSheet, the app is easier to find on the App Store and fits the consistent look of the Seb-IT apps (YatzySheet, TrickSheet, PatternCrack …).

TrickSheet is an app by Seb-IT and has no connection to the publishers of the card games named here. Wizard is a registered trademark of US Games Systems, Inc. The name appears on this page purely to describe what kind of games night the score pad suits. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.