Hearts - Card Game Classic

I honestly don’t know how this game has received 5 stars from so many people. I consider myself to be a pretty good Hearts player (I usually win a high percentage of the games I play) but this game makes it almost impossible to win. They give you the worst hands imaginable, then other computer players play the card you least want to be played at the worst possible moment. I have the jack giving you -10 points if you win it. Unfortunately, they make it almost impossible to get that card. It’s like the other 3 players gang up on you. The will make it so that their cronies get the jack rather than you, even producing the card when it’s to their disadvantage, just so that you will not get it. They give or pass you hands that make it impossible to avoid getting the queen (like when they give you the queen, and maybe one other spade) and immediately start by playing spades until you get stuck. There are no other, less difficult levels (such as “easy”, “medium”, or “hard”). This game is enough to make you want to pull your hair out! Do not get it if you don’t mind losing all the time. I’m disgusted and will probably be deleting this game shortly, even though I hate being defeated and giving up too easily.

It’s really fun to play again since Microsoft stopped including games like it and solitaire and minesweeper a long time ago. The only reason I didn’t give it a 5 is because the programming doesn’t seem as fair as the windows version from 20 years ago. What could possibly be different? Well I have noticed that the computer doesn’t seem to play each one trying to win. Many times it seems the 3 agree on one player to win and make you lose, and not 4 separate entities all playing to win. Shooting the moon is much more common than I’m used to, and there are times in which the computer seems to obviously let other computer players, the designated winner, get that specialty as often as it can. Also, usually when a player is trying to shoot the moon but gets interrupted they may try to salvage the round and get out of taking so many points, however once the computer is determined to try it doesn’t look back, and if you interrupt them they will continue to play the cards in an order that would shoot the moon if you hadn’t stopped them. Overall, great game and really fun!! Thanks for making it free!

Understand: You’re playing against three identically programmed computers. All three not only count EVERY card played but also know exactly which cards have NOT been played. So if you start running a suit, they know exactly which card to hold to break your run. So your table includes the BEST three defensive players IN THE WORLD! But they’re not very good offensively - they seldom run the table. Their offensive algorithms are fairly basic and predictable. But they cheat!: It’s common sense in Hearts to start the game by leading spades until you’ve forced the queen to be played, eliminating the possibility of you getting stuck with her 13 points. And the computers will do that when YOU have queen of spades. But when one of them has her they’ll continuously lead anything but spades, increasing the likelihood that you will get her….and they know what has and hasn’t been played.