Hearts program cheats! I've specifically caught the game cheating. Passed Ace & King Spades to the right & they ended up across the table. I think this is BULL I would expect a program to play by the rules!

The hearts program is not the only Microsoft game that cheats.  Spider solitaire cheats by constantly showing the next card up in a pile when you move the card just below to another suit.  Such as moving a 7 of hearts to an 8 of spade, then the 8 of hearts comes up from under the 7 you just moved.  It does it constantly throughout the game.

The regular solitaire also cheats.  It constantly deals out a whole series of all red or all black and then you start dealing and several cards from the deck continue in the same color that started.

Hearts is a cheating game who were the programmers? I downloaded a program that lets me turn all the hands face up and have watch how when the player that passes to you will keep high card including the Ace of Spades or Hearts and passes you some real dumb cards. I've it over and over again. Has anyone else seen this?

It absolutely cheats! It's not playing against three NPCs clueless of each other's hands like in the actual card game. Instead, it's basically one NPC playing three hands against you. They all know what the other has in order to throw out the cards that gives you points, and most of the time you will get the queen. I have sat and watched countless times as a NPC with the queen passes up multiple chances to throw it out on the other two NPCs, but it waits for an opportunity to throw it out on me 80% of the time. Any time it doesn't, it's because there was simply no way to trap me even with a three-hand advantage. And yes, the hand that passes to me always has the queen or the highest spades, which is simply an impossibility with that many sets of cards and four players. Also, no one would ever lead with a queen, but it does so when all I have left of spades is a king or ace. Like many, I've seen the other two hands also help one hand shoot the moon simply because I have a remarkable hand that can't lose. So yes, I have to restart games all the time to get fair play, but it rarely happens. At times when I've had enough spades to flush out the queen, it never appears until it has an opportunity to take me down, usually when hearts has been broken. Other hands will throw out their two low cards, a 2 and 3 of diamonds or something, so that I have the higher of the three and that is also when the queen will suddenly make an appearance and I get all the points. I've tried an online version, but didn't like the set up and simplicity. At least I could play a fair game, however. If anyone knows of a good version that is not Microsoft, please let me know. Thanks.

Good comments.

I also found the Queen was almost always to my left, with the leader of spades to my right.

That happens an astounding percentage of the time.

When the computer shoots the moon, two of them just help.

No human would normally do that.

Yes, it is beyond doubt this program is a very simplistic strategy game with very

few redeeming qualities you could learn from. Why do people do this!!