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I wish I could post an image, but I just Shot the Moon 2 hands in a row; won the game. Sure, it happens; I win a lot of the time, too. That doesn't change the essential fact that the game still cheats. Even a human being wouldn't win all the time if he or she cheated; it's not a guarantee. Steve, make no mistake, I don't dispute the fact that MS Hearts cheats. I just had to brag a little. ;) (I don't know if anyone has brought this up, but have we noticed how one player will have a really low score for a long string of hands while the other three will have 30-40 points or more? Does anyone really think that's from strategy/smart play?) btw, on a slightly different note: I feel like I'm a little better than average at MS Solitaire (just regular old Solitaire). I feel like I win a lot more than when I'm playing with a real deck of cards.

I wish I could post an image, but I just Shot the Moon 2 hands in a row; won the game.

I was actually able to prove concretely beyond a shadow of a doubt that the game was cheating. Ironically, I had to cheat in order to do it... I don't remember how I did it, but at one point in my ramblings on the Internet, I came across a page that explained how to cheat at Hearts. It involved changing options in the Windows system registry. The net effect was that after the changes were made, instead of having the backs of your opponents' cards facing you, you could see the *fronts* of all of them - meaning that they were all effectively showing me all of their cards all the time. Having that advantage, you would think that it would be extremely easy to beat the computer. However, I found that the computer was consistently doing things like reneging on hands and playing void even though it still had cards of the led suit in its hand. It wasn't just a theory, either - when you can see exactly what your opponent has in his (its) hands, you know that it's cheating. Gives credence to the joke that Microsoft is an acronym for "Most Intelligent Consumers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers."

Fought through those stages and as you 're approaching 57% a couple of further strange things happen. 1. You can't shoot the moon any more. Any hand that you get that you're forced to take a chance on shows someone up as having only the ace of any given suit. If you start poorly and find yourself more than 26 points of the pace, one of the other two players dumps! ie stops playing with any sense and races away to 100. When you do win, it's only after a good scrap. Come on microsoft! Any comment?

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!

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Please send feedback on any games or components of Windows 7 to the following URL:

http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Windows%207/Feedback.aspx?formID=195

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2013-07-03T00:14:24+00:00

I wish I could post an image, but I just Shot the Moon 2 hands in a row; won the game.

Sure, it happens; I win a lot of the time, too. That doesn't change the essential fact that the game still cheats. Even a human being wouldn't win all the time if he or she cheated; it's not a guarantee.

Steve, make no mistake, I don't dispute the fact that MS Hearts cheats. I just had to brag a little. ;)

(I don't know if anyone has brought this up, but have we noticed how one player will have a really low score for a long string of hands while the other three will have 30-40 points or more? Does anyone really think that's from strategy/smart play?)

btw, on a slightly different note: I feel like I'm a little better than average at MS Solitaire (just regular old Solitaire). I feel like I win a lot more than when I'm playing with a real deck of cards.
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2013-07-01T00:10:11+00:00

I wish I could post an image, but I just Shot the Moon 2 hands in a row; won the game.
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2013-05-17T17:50:43+00:00

I was actually able to prove concretely beyond a shadow of a doubt that the game was cheating. Ironically, I had to cheat in order to do it...

I don't remember how I did it, but at one point in my ramblings on the Internet, I came across a page that explained how to cheat at Hearts. It involved changing options in the Windows system registry. The net effect was that after the changes were made, instead of having the backs of your opponents' cards facing you, you could see the *fronts* of all of them - meaning that they were all effectively showing me all of their cards all the time. Having that advantage, you would think that it would be extremely easy to beat the computer. However, I found that the computer was consistently doing things like reneging on hands and playing void even though it still had cards of the led suit in its hand. It wasn't just a theory, either - when you can see exactly what your opponent has in his (its) hands, you know that it's cheating.

Gives credence to the joke that Microsoft is an acronym for "Most Intelligent Consumers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers."
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2013-02-17T18:28:35+00:00
Fought through those stages and as you 're approaching 57% a couple of further strange things happen. 1. You can't shoot the moon any more. Any hand that you get that you're forced to take a chance on shows someone up as having only the ace of any given suit.
1. If you start poorly and find yourself more than 26 points of the pace, one of the other two players dumps! ie stops playing with any sense and races away to 100.
When you do win, it's only after a good scrap.

Come on microsoft! Any comment?
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