Hearts for Android

Update- deleted and reinstalled the app and sound problem solved. Moved up to 4 stars I prefer no sound. Don’t like to cut my phone volume cuz I forget to turn it back up. All of a sudden the game ignores my choice for no sound and no tweaking the settings helps at all. Used to love this game but time to look for new Hearts. I’ll give it a couple of days more.

I so enjoy kicking back playing a few games of hearts

This hearts game is pretty good but I play lots of real hearts there are flaws with this one. 1) We all know that shooting the moon is difficult but in this app, West, North and East shoot the moon way too often. 2) 90% of the time when a player plays a 2, 3, 4 o5 of hearts, the other three players each have one of the 2, 3, 4 or 5. So the heart hand down with a 2, 3, 4 and 5. 3) Fairly often either West, North or East tries to shoot the moon seemingly not noticing that one of the other players have already taken one trick.

Lesser developers rig the games to leverage game theory to get you to make them money. In addition, they use underhanded ways to deliver intrusive ads longer than you want to — another sign of who you are dealing with.

I think that the game lets me win too often. Sometimes my opponents do such dumb stuff; nobody would actually play like that. Too often It’s either an impossible hand or a ridiculous one. But I do enjoy it, maybe it’s good for my ego to win so often but I wonder how I’d do with real opponents. But then I’m afraid I wouldn’t do well because this game has not made me feel confident. All that said, I like playing. It takes my mind off the real world!