Read trump, choose the bury, and take the right trick in five-minute drills. No opponents, no account, no pressure.
iPhone · Four practice rooms · Works offline
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Everything below is free. Sheepshead+ adds more of it.
Card values, suits, the blind, picker and partner roles, then the rules that trip up new players.
Permanent trump, fail suits, point cards, and the order that turns a holding into a table plan.
See five cards and call the trump, point, partnership, or strategy clue that matters before the trick starts.
Work eight-card picker holdings, compare your bury with the coach's pick, and see the blind tradeoff.
Follow the led suit, order the trumps, find the silent partner, and capture the point cards that decide the hand.
Swipeable cards that explain the rule instead of just testing it.
An additional practice set in all four rooms, with fresh questions, hands, deals, and calls added through the year.
Advanced picker strategy, partner defense, live-trump tracking, and expert trick decisions.
Streaks, missed-item review, and per-room progress keep the useful skills warm.
Sheepshead Trainer keeps practice progress and preferences on your iPhone. There is no sign-up, no ads, and nothing sold. Reminders are scheduled locally on your device. Apple processes purchases, and RevenueCat receives only the identifiers needed to unlock and restore Sheepshead+.
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Most players learn sheepshead at a table, then have no way to practice until the next deal. Trump order fades, buries become guesses, and trick decisions disappear as soon as the table gets busy.
Sheepshead Trainer is practice without a table: quick, interactive reps you can run anywhere. Learn the deck, read the blind, choose two to bury, and take tricks without giving points away.
All four rooms stay free, forever. Sheepshead+ simply adds more: monthly or yearly (both with a 1-week free trial), or a one-time purchase for lifetime access. Prices are shown in the app before you buy and vary by region.
Extra practice sets. A second set of questions, hands, deals, and calls in every room, using drills you already know.
The Master Tables. Advanced bury strategy, partner defense, live-trump tracking, and expert trick play for players moving past the basics.
| Platform | iOS 17+ |
| Language | Swift 6 with strict concurrency |
| Framework | SwiftUI · StoreKit 2 · RevenueCat |
| Data | No account; progress stored on device |
| Storage | Local preferences, bundled practice content |
| Offline | Every drill works with no network |
Rules before reflexes. Drills isolate card values, trump order, bury choices, partner play, and table position.
Original teaching deals. Every hand, deal, and question is written for teaching, not copied from a published game.
Five minutes, honestly. Sessions are short enough for a grocery line, because that's when people actually practice.
Free means free. The four rooms are complete without paying. Sheepshead+ adds volume and advanced material rather than gating the fundamentals.
Sheepshead Trainer is an independent sheepshead practice app. House rules vary, so use the rules agreed at your table.
Free on the App Store. Four practice rooms, no account. Sheepshead+ optional.
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