Hearts

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.

Great memories

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!

Worst Hearts game ever!

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.

Enjoyable and Surprisingly Fair

I've read all those reviews about how the cards passed are not fair but that has not been my experience. I may lose a hand but I most often win the whole set. I've played gin rummy my whole life and, sure, you get passed high cards but that's what happens in real life gameplay. The other guy is trying to get rid of their high cards, too. This is the fairest card game bot I've played against which makes it very enjoyable. There are too many ads but unfortunately every app I play now has too many ads. There is a trick for bypassing them if you have an iPhone XR or newer but if I post it they will delete this review. Play with it and you'll find it. If you do figure it out it works on every game.

Program Has Glitches or it Cheats

Generally, this is quite a fun App. You do go through periods where it seems unfair and almost every round, you’re either dealt the Queen of Spades or another player gives you the Ace and King (or the other way around). But that’s kind of balanced out by other periods when you’re not dealt or given any of those 3 cards. My main complaint is that there seems to be a couple of glitches that have the appearance of cheating (especially when you come off worse). I’ve seen this a few times now, while playing the game. 1 - sometimes I have played the high “trump” card (e.g. a Jack of Diamonds, according to the suite chosen by the first player) and another player (say, “Michael”) has put down the Queen of Spades. Then a couple of hands later, that same player (“Michael”) has put down a card of the same suit (Diamonds). So, hold on - why did “Michael” put down the Queen of Spades when he still had a Diamond card ? Just to stick me with 13 points ? 2 - sometimes the winner of the hand isn’t the player who put down the highest trump card. For example, I’ve seen “Jerry” win a hand with the 10 of Clubs, when “Barbara” put down the Queen of Clubs. Why ? Is is because one or other of the A.I. players has already been chosen to be the clear winner of the game ?

App is great but dear god, the ad!

I have used this app hundreds if not thousands of times. Love the app. I don’t know if the developers are aware but there is now an ad I find very disturbing. I have lived 68 years without seeing an animal shot and would have preferred going to my grave that way. But thanks to an ad that shows a wolf or coyote, not sure which, being looked at thru a scope on a rifle and shooting it, injuring it and it writhing in pain I now have seen it. Not sure if they put it out of its pain with another shot because I get out of it as quick as I can. This is not computer generated, it is an actual video. I don’t think I have ever seen anything online that comes close to being as offensive as this advertisement. Please get rid of it!

Fun Game-Gotta Watch Our For Player Barbara

Like this game. Easy to use and comes in handy between lull time. Gotta watch out for computer player Barbara. Not sure what the super power this computer component, but this player is always a winner (based on my curiosity I kept track over the last 2 weeks and calc. 98%). Can be ahead of Barbara a lot of times, but get pushed back when the Queen of Spades all of the sudden being dealt out. So makes you wonder if the game is rigged and not playing fair. Wonder if other who’ has downloaded this app are experiencing the same thing. But overall a good game to play if you need to kill time. Hence the 5 stars overall. But would give plate Barbara 2 stars (lol).

Pretty good

I haven’t played other Hearts apps so I don’t have anything to compare it to. I don’t have a problem with the way the boys play. I am okay with losing. My main goal is to try to shoot the moon every hand. That said, there are a few features I wish there were. It would be great if there were a TRAM button. It’s in exciting to have to play out the rest of the cards once a shoot the moon has been done, or when I know the rest are mine. It would be nice if there were a pay option to have no ads for life. I won’t pay for the subscription, but I would pay a one-time-fee. That being said, the ads can be skipped almost immediately so they’re not that bad. I wish there were an option to select whether shooting the moon added 26 points to other players or subtracted 26 from your own score. I don’t know if this was a special rule in games I’ve played years ago, but it was nice because it allowed you to make a comeback. With this game, if any bot has more than 84 points and I am not in first place, it’s sometimes not worth it to try to shoot the moon because I’d lose anyway. It takes away from the excitement.

- Optimized for the iPad and iPhone! Stick your opponents with as many hearts as possible and try to avoid the hearts suit. Beware of the Queen of Spades.

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