Play Mus against the computer

Setting up a table of bots

Mus here is for exactly four players, in two pairs sitting opposite. Open a table and press "Add an opponent" three times for a full table of bots, or fewer to play with friends. Seats are in the order people sit down: first and third against second and fourth.

The one table rule is the length of the game: 30 or 40 stones. Only the host can seat bots, and only before the first hand.

What a bot can see

Its own four cards and the bets on the table. Hands are kept on the server, so no bot — not even your partner — can see what you hold, and nothing is shown until the end of the hand.

Bots take about a second over each decision, so you can follow the mus and every bet.

How the bots play

A bot asks for mus only when its hand is worth nothing — no pair, no juego, no king. When it changes cards it keeps its kings and aces and throws the rest.

In the betting it bets two stones about half the time when it holds the round — two high cards at grande, two aces at chica, medias or duples at pares, 31 at juego — and otherwise passes. It accepts a bet when it is strong, and about one time in five when it is not. It never raises.

How to beat them

Because a bot only bets on a strong hand, a bot's bet is real: refuse it unless you are sure. And since it accepts a fifth of bets on nothing, a well-chosen bet of your own often gets called by a weaker hand.

A bot never raises, so your raise is never met with a bigger one. Use that in the rounds you hold.

Bots and people together

Invite friends with the code and let bots take the empty chairs — you and a friend as partners against two bots is the classic way to learn. The order you sit down in decides who partners whom.

The next hand is dealt a few seconds after the last one is shown. If somebody leaves mid-game a bot plays their seat, and if their connection drops it is held for twenty-five seconds and handed back when they return.