Hearts - Card Game Classic Wiki

I have also noticed that, when I pass 3 cards, I will either get those same three card suits back or I will get high spades. And that really is 9 out of 10 times! I also just noticed today - after weeks of playing - that the game scores are not adding properly! If you hit the ‘scores’ button, the game scores will appear. You can hit the back arrow back to game 1 and, moving forward, you can see that the prior scores plus the current game scores don’t always add up! I was chasing a competitor knowing exactly how many points ahead he was. And - oops! - his score was totaled incorrectly! And I see it’s not an occasional mistake. It’s very often. I’m done with this game!

I’m not exactly sure of the algorithms, but occasionally the game clearly gives the player unusual advantages and disadvantages. I suspect it has something to do with your rate of success... too many losses and you get a run of unusual and unlikely wins, and the same if you win too often. It seems to let you win enough so that you stay with the game, but not so often that there appears to be no challenge. Net... the deals are not random in the same way a physical shuffled deck would be. The game always knows, and adjusts accordingly.

I really enjoy this version of the game. I bought the paid version, otherwise the ads are really intrusive. Someone commented about not saving the game when exiting, but I have not experienced that. Some suggestions: have the option to hide the point counts during the game so I can train myself to pay attention to who has received the hearts cards/how many have been played.

I’m having lots of fun playing this classic. It’s my new go-to. Everything is great except sometimes I notice that the other ‘players’ try to stop me more than they stop each other. Once a ‘player’ shot the moon and another ‘player’ could have stopped him several times, but didn’t. Yet they always stopped me when they could. Very sus. Other than that, it’s great!

My husband and I both enjoy this game very much! I have a request though: I would like the option to review the last hand dealt because sometimes it went to a person I wasn’t expecting and I would like to see why. I was probably playing too fast. At any rate, I don’t want to change the result, just review it. Thanks! Terri

The game is okay, but not like playing a real game against people, mainly because it always plays as three versus one (and you are always the one). If you are trying to shoot, the opponents will (correctly) try to stop you, but if one of the AI players is shooting, it is entirely up to you to stop it. The other two players do not adjust to the threat. The other players never attempt any strategy to deliver points to the player with the low score, they play every hand as if the score is a four way tie. This type of coding is typical for hearts games in my experience, and the rest is reasonably well coded, so I still give it four stars.

It would be nice if there was a low, medium and high setting for the game. Sometimes the game clearly lets me win, for example I will lead a 6 of clubs. The player to my left will throw the queen of spades (13 points). The player to his left will follow suit with the 8 of clubs thus saving me the 13 points. Then in the next round, I can see the the player that threw the 8 of clubs also had the 4 of clubs. But they didn’t play that 4 of clubs card when it would have saved them 13 points. They clearly let me win.

I love the game but the ads that run between each round (about every 2 minutes) are often very long(much longer than any ads I've encountered with other apps), usually there is a second ad, and some of them have a disclaimer of being for over 18 which they definitely are - should NOT be accompanying an app that is not rated for 18+. I did not see any such warning before installing the app.

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.

I’ve been playing for several hours now. Artificial difficulty is definitely added to this game. After noticing it, I tested it by repeatedly starting new games and seeing what cards the AI passes on to me. If you try to get rid of a suit from your hand on the opening pass, the AI passing to you will load you up on that suit 9/10 times. If you don’t try to get rid of a suit, you’ll get passed high spades instead. Every. Hand. Aside from this, it’s moderately fun and the artwork is nice. But shame on the developer for not making a truly fair game.

There is something wrong with this game. The average winning percentage is off. I played at least 25 games and about 90% of the time when I could not pass, I was dealt the queen of spades. This is not real life application. It also seems that when you can pass, the percentage of viable cards are off. Why are we experiencing this? The strategy of wolf yowling at the moon works for only the opposing players and not for me. This game might be frustrating to folks who are adept at playing traditional hearts game. Make some improvements please.

I get dealt similar or identical cards all the time. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve been dealt or passed the Ace, King, and 5 of hearts several times in the same game. That is one example. Same thing happens with other suits. Also, as many others have mentioned, the 3 computer players play collectively against you. If you shoot the moon you will take massive points on the next hand 19/20 times because you will be dealt a horrible hand of which there is no escape. The cards are not dealt at random. Rather the cards seem to be dealt at different difficultly levels based on the players points and what happened on the prior hand. Ads are super annoying and pushed on every hand. After playing this for a couple weeks I deleted it. I’m not going to pay for the app when the hands aren’t dealt at random.

Whenever I play Hearts, the game puts a heavy drain on my phone’s battery. I’ve suspected this was happening since I installed this app a few weeks ago. I found that my battery was really low and a couple of hours off of the charger. I just ran a “test” first thing in the morning with the phone plugged in all night and the game not in RAM. The phone was cool to my touch. I then played one game of Hearts with the phone still plugged in. After playing one game, I felt my phone and it was hot. Note: the phone was not held in my hand while playing the game and was on a cool surface.

The first time I tried this app, I was surprised and dismayed to find ads between each hand and particularly put off by a political ad which was full of lies and innuendo. I wrote to the app maker about the objectionable ad. I received a nice email back hoping I would try it again and report objectionable ads if they appear so that “ we can ask the providers to do the necessary with it”. I thought I would give it another try. I experienced the same thing. I don’t recommend this app due to the political propaganda in ads and the amount of ads-which becomes very time consuming.