How to check if the robot will do what you expect with your hands and auction.

Milen Milkovski
Milen Milkovski

Apr 17, 2026

1 min read

At this time the robot cannot take instruction from the teacher, so you have to check the hands and rely on the robot's decision-making skill. We have programmed code in the robots that occasionally will innocently peak in all hands, but if it sees none of the 3-4 cards it thinks will be there, then the robot may play a card that does not yield a good result. Make sure in Settings -> Robots -> Sill Level is set to Console Session.

Make sure in Settings -> Robots -> Sill Level is set to Console Session.

What I would suggest is this:

  1. Build your hands in the Shark deal library, add the auction, and add the lead from the defense. Save the hand. You can also import the hands.
  2. Start a session and add one table.
  3. Load the hand with Load Deal button and choose Play pre-set Tricks
  4. On the student green table make the plays you expect from a student and press Forward (underneath South's hand) for the robot to play its hands. Now hopefully the robot does it right :).

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