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Great computer card game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is definitely a quality PC card game. It installed flawlessly. Gameplay is great and it is very entertaining. Hoyle does these games correctly.
John
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card games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I think this is the best for playing card games and solitary. It has caricatures that you play with. They add amusement to the games. They send you a copy of the Hoyle instruction book. The variety of games is great. Because of the reviews I purchased the 2005 version instead of the next version. I had purchased a different card game and it was diffently not as good.

Fun Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: April 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was given this as a gift, the little ones like to get me games to play on my new computer, and it was a lot of fun. I recommend it.

Love the Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Very good games. Good way to pass the time and be entertained.

Hoyle Card Games 2005

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: September 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Will not work on my computer. No help from designer. Waste of money.

Hoyle card games 2005

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Fantastic So much better than the 2001 version I have. Much more interaction and I like the Hoyle bucks you can earn and spend on extras for the games. But I did not get the plastic holder for the game disc-only the outside box.

Don't waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Most of the people involved with programing this game seem to have been dedicated to making it as irritating, unenjoyable and predictable as possible. Solitaire seems to consist of anly a few variations; only the values of the cards dealt change. After a while you come to know which game you'll win. In poker the players do really clever things like check with a straight and raise with high card.

Not so good....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The games we bought this for are Hearts, Spades, and Rummy. The first two have opponents / partners who play very poorly - we're amazed in Spades how your partner cuts you as much as your opponents and they can't play nil hands!! In Rummy the oppoenent ALWAYS gets three Kings - never lay one down.

The worst part of the game is the mouse buttons. You cannot change them and they're backwards! Also you have to drag the cards to lay out (in Rummy), not quick way to do so, and if you dont place them exactly where the box is they return to your hand.

Overall very frustrating and mildly entertaining. With a little more effort and a programmer / designer who had actually played the games this could have been good.

My Partners in Euchre Never Bid on Purpose!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I like playing Euchre, but what makes me mad is that I seldom get a decent hand compared to my partner and my opponents. Almost every time I bid it is pushing my luck, because my hand is lacking key cards and I have to depend on my partner. Sometimes my partner is helpful, but too many times after a hand is played I review the cards as delt to all players and find that my so called partner had a great hand, and I mean great, and he passed and never bid. This causes us to lose games we should be winning. On the other hand I've noticed that our opponents have unbelievable hands most of the time. This game does require some skill, but nothing beats having good cards and when the opponents almost always are delt the better hands game after game, it gets boring so I go to other games. Essentially this game as designed is rigged. You don't feel like everyone has an equal chance to win, you always feel that the opponents can read your mind and always seem to have the key cards. For example, I aways have cards that force me to follow suit when a card is led, but I notice time and time again that the opponents are conveniently out of the suit led and can trump to win a trick and one of the partners aways seems to have the cards missing in the other partner's hand. When you play a game enough you can tell by the feel of the game if things are just "too clever" to happen by chance. This game would be a great game if there were true randomness instead of the controlled play. Playing this game is like gambling in a casino where the odds of winning are controlled by the casino owners.

disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: March 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Unfortunately, I was unable to load this cd on my desktop system because it informed me that the cd was for hand held devices. I really would like to purchase a hoyle cd like this one that I could load on my desktop computer. Any suggestions?
Thank you, Lavern Rice

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