computer card games

redhawk44

redhawk44

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Last winter, out of boredom, I bought a CD with card games on it. It was called "Hoyle card games."

Now after 4 months of playing the games on this CD, I have come to the conclusion that the winner is pre-ordained. There are just too many predictable things that happen in similar ways at similar times and circumstances.

In short, it appears that the cards are not delt randomly like they would be in an honest game, so that even if one plays a superior game, he will lose when it is his turn to lose.

Does anyone market a card game CD that provides an "honest game?"
 
Really? Then the programmer must be really lazy or dumb or both then. What kind of cards are you into? Have you tried the ones that come with Microsoft, I think there is hearts and stuff like that. Why don't you google card games? I'm sure you will heaps of hits, and most of them are free anyway.
 
You can play a lot of card games on the yahoo! network with other people, got me through a lot of procrastinating in college... :)
 
I would have thought that it would be pretty simple to code a random card game. I have done it in Software Design and development. In fact I think its more simple to make it random. :confused:
 
elitehacker said:
Really? Then the programmer must be really lazy or dumb or both then. What kind of cards are you into? Have you tried the ones that come with Microsoft, I think there is hearts and stuff like that. Why don't you google card games? I'm sure you will heaps of hits, and most of them are free anyway.
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That was my thought also.

The programmer apparently didn't know the first thing about euchre, you could tell that by the way he had the players leading their cards.

After I figured that out, I started playing cribbage and found out that except for rare exceptions, the human (me) wasn't going to win 2 games in a row because along about the time I got to 80 holes, if I was very far ahead, I got 2 hands and zero cribs until the computer got far enough ahead to win. Then the third game would be a tossup.

I have played enough cards to know that when something gets predictable and it continues long enough, something is not on the up and up.

What I would like is a CD of card games that deals the cards randomly like an honest human would, and then programs it in such a way that the computer side whold have a variety of skill levels in the actual play of the cards.

If anyone knows of such a CD, I would appreciate knowing what it is called so I can buy it.

XRT, no I can't "prove it."
 
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