Hearts XT

Sinse you pay - no annoying advertisements. Most every hearts game I try it is rare to shoot the moon, but not in this game. I have shot the moon by accident more times than I can count. You need that buffer of points though since YOU must stop another moonshot attempts. The AI players let each other and often yourself shoot the moon on a regular basis, The programmers of this and most every other hearts game lay their heavy hand in to make sure you do not win every game. I have come in second place many times despite shooting the moon twice. The computer can be ruthless often causing me to laugh at the number of mismatched deals, where you and one other player has almost all of one suite. Some of this heavy handed programming must be done or a good player would win almost every game. If you really tire of the cheating you are allowed some cheating yourself. As long as it is not the NO TRADE round you can ask for a new shuffle. Keep in mind that if you do not know where Q of spades is that well over 60% of the time the player to your left has it. Also the program seems fond of loading you up with a lot of clubs. You rarely receive many spades and if you have 4 with one being queen that is not enough to be able to get rid of her due to the suits being off balance. I am able to win some now even without reshuffle request because I now recognize some patterns and have a good guess on what will happen next

I have downloaded and tried every hearts game in the App Store. This is by far the best out there. EXCEPT, I’m calling BS on the algo under the hood. You will not be playing 3 players, but rather 1. I’ll explain why. My dad and I are highly skilled in hearts and have logged thousands of games. We’ve mastered card counting and could literally beat anyone and everyone. However, the algorithm that runs this game heavily cheats. You will constantly eat the queen with a 4, sometimes even a 3. And this is when a suit hasn’t gone around once. You can have 4-5 backers and you’ll still eat the queen due to the computer pinning all the tricks to your right. The funniest part is hearts will almost always be broken with the Ace. Who does that? So yes, you can run the deck (almost the only way to win), but even if you have the most amazingly low hand and you can literally duck anything... you won’t be able to. Remember, it’s not 3 people you’re playing. You’re playing 1 person (computer) using 3 hands, so you’re at an extreme disadvantage right away. It’ll destroy the most skilled players. Gotta dock 1 star for that. It’s fun but if you’re skilled, be prepared to be very frustrated.

Great game hours of fun. Love the characters and the scenery!!!!