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Sheepshead, THE Game on Windows Pc

Developed By: David Ruchti

License: Free

Rating: 4,4/5 - 52 votes

Last Updated: April 18, 2024

Download on Windows PC

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

Game Details

Version 22
Size 5.8 MB
Release Date December 03, 17
Category Card Games

What's New:
Made changes to improve the card playing logic. Fixed a few issues that caused the game to close unexpectedly. [see more]

Description from Developer:
Pit your sheepshead skills against One Eye Jack, Crack Meister, Ace No Face and Queen Betsy. Sheepshead, THE Game is a fun, challenging and easy to use Sheepshead card game in whic... [read more]

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About this game

On this page you can download Sheepshead, THE Game and play on Windows PC. Sheepshead, THE Game is free Card game, developed by David Ruchti. Latest version of Sheepshead, THE Game is 22, was released on 2017-12-03 (updated on 2024-04-18). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 1,000. Overall rating of Sheepshead, THE Game is 4,4. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This game had been rated by 52 users, 5 users had rated it 5*, 36 users had rated it 1*.

How to play Sheepshead, THE Game on Windows?

Instruction on how to play Sheepshead, THE Game on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install Sheepshead, THE Game on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this game on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

Step By Step Guide To Play Sheepshead, THE Game using BlueStacks

  1. Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
  2. Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
  3. Once installed, click "Sheepshead, THE Game" icon on the home screen to start playing, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to play Sheepshead, THE Game on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

  1. Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
  2. Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
  3. The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "Sheepshead, THE Game" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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Download older versions

Other versions available: 22.

Download Sheepshead, THE Game 22 on Windows PC – 5.8 MB

Pit your sheepshead skills against One Eye Jack, Crack Meister, Ace No Face and Queen Betsy. Sheepshead, THE Game is a fun, challenging and easy to use Sheepshead card game in which you play against four computerized players. The game supports Called Ace or Jack of Diamonds as partner. Blitzing and cracking adds to the excitement. You can have the game speak the results of the hand.

Tap a card to play or discard the card. The game plays only in portrait mode for phones and only in landscape mode for tablets.

There are 2 ways to try out the game before you buy. First, there is a a Free Trial of the game on the Google Play App Store. This app will give you a 3 day free trial of the game. Secondly, if you own a Windows pc, you can download the game on to your pc and play the game for 7 days free. Both versions of the game use the same card playing logic engine as the Android paid version of the game. This will give you a good feeling as to how well the game plays the cards. However, not all features in the Windows PC version are in the Android versions. See the developers website link for more information.

Features of Sheepshead, THE Game

4 methods to determine partner
Called Ace
Jack of Diamonds - Can't call up
Jack of Diamonds - Call up before picking
Jack of Diamonds - Call after picking

3 modes of play
Professional
Amateur
Beginner

The Beginner mode of play has the following features
A Suggest button to help determine your play
How many trump are left
How many points the picking team has
How many points the opposing team has
How many points were won on each trick
Interences as to whether the player is the partner or an opponent

2 methods to control the flow of the game
By clicking the play button after each trick
By setting a specific time between each trick

The option to allow the picker to go alone after picking (this is the default for Called Ace)

Statistics by player for the current game and historically for all games played

The option to play doublers if no player picks the blind or play leasters

The option to play Clubs as trump. Clubs replace the Diamonds (Seven of Diamonds through Ace of Diamonds) as trump

The option to blitz Black Queens and or blitz Red Queens and or blitz Black Jacks and or blitz Red Jacks

The option to allow the opposing team to crack and the picking team to crack back

The ability to view the cards of the last hand

The option to allow the game to play your card automatically for you on the sixth trick

The option to allow the game to play your card automatically for you when you have only one card of the suit led

The ability to control how fast the cards are played

The ability to change the player names

The ability to change the hands per game

The option to allow the computer to speak the contents of the message board

The option to determine when the game will identify the
player that played the called partner card.

The option to replay the previous hand
Made changes to improve the card playing logic. Fixed a few issues that caused the game to close unexpectedly.