Hearts Gold

I really like how well-designed this game is. Very customizable and smooth-playing. I’ve tried several iOS Hearts games and this is the best implementation I’ve seen yet. I’m still looking for a Hearts game that is truly challenging though. I’m a good Hearts player, but by no means great, and I can beat the computer players nearly every time (I’m at over 70% wins). In this particular version, the players seem to be obsessed with either trying to Shoot the Moon, or preventing anyone else from doing so.

In a way, this game is great practice for playing Hearts in the real world, because there’s no way the actual laws of mathematical probability will ever put it to you this consistently. Cards that you pass to one opponent will mysteriously appear in another’s hand, to your disadvantage. You will get high hearts, but not enough to shoot the moon, and so on. For all that, it’s a good tool for learning the game, because it takes clever play to beat it.

I was under impression the object of the game was to have lowest score as an opponent reaches 100. Players don’t understand that you attempt to get the low man in points. On many games that I have played an opponent will give the queen of spades at first chance. Many times the person has 85 point and low person has 28 and they will give the Queen to another who has63 points. Poor programming.

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The three AI opponents are just plain stupid when it comes to passing cards. So frustrating to play against the three of them. I’ve had multiple games where AI’s have “shot the moon” 2-3 times in a single game as they pass between each other. They apparently never pass a low heart between themselves. Strange that when I pass to an AI they never shoot the moon unless I purposely give them cards to help them do so since it would then allow me to win. Time to look for a new game manufacture.

I enjoy this version however there is one flaw in the software , that I have reported repeatedly, that has never been corrected. You can play hearts before they have been broken if the only hearts and the queen of spades remain. In settings I have set the other option that you must play the queen first to break hearts.