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!

I must admit that i was slightly surprised by the blatant ( and pathetically poor ) attempt by the game to manipulate my win stats. I had recently reset my stats after playing about 5000 games, just to see if i could get my win ratio higher. But, even given the games propensity for card-fixing and cheating, i didn't expect this.

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I totally agree and don't know why Microsoft hasn't offered a "fix" to this obvious glitch!!  I have decided not to even play the game again and it makes me feel like I don't want to use anything Microsoft creates at all in the future for the "ethics" of it all.  I have caught the "programming" of the Hearts game dealing a heart first when WE CAN'T and the very next hand they have other suits... (which PROVES they should not have lead a heart unless someone else did first).  Also, if you watch CLOSE, sometimes I take the suit and another player leads the next hand illegally before I can even play the card I want (which makes me push the wrong card out! I just played a hand when that happened and that player "shot the moon" against me when they didn't even WIN the hand to play the next card.  I'm personally done with this CHEATING game.  Waste of time and effort and too much aggravation. I've tried playing it for years now and anytime I get to 43% it starts cheating like crazy.  It's a constant cheating game PLUS you have 3 players against 1 to try to beat.  It's in my recycling bin now!

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Hearts program cheats! I've specifically caught the game cheating. Played Q Spades was taken by Ace of Spades (West) West had other lower Spades in hand then proceeded to play off other points or are you telling me the Computer took the highest point card in the game to stop the run. How did it determin this in the first 3 hands? I think this is how it will always be. I work in QA and there is not fixing anything that you can play or boot what is broke is broke and it will not be fixed even if you complain. There is no profit in fixing bugs.

Since MS Hearts is so predictable, I have a win rate of about 70%.

I haven't seen reneges as mentioned by others, but the main way I

see it cheat is in "knowing" your pass, too often getting the suit I pass.

I will seldom get a low heart in a pass unless I pass to shoot the moon.

Only then will I get 2 or 3 low hearts in the pass.  How does it know

whether I pass to shoot or not?