I've noticed this also,
I doubt anyone has a solution though...

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Laura.....
Liverpool, England

"Do you know where you're going to?"
"David White" <no@email.provided> wrote in message
news:lR8lf.1293$WM.34836@nasal.pacific.net.au...
: I'm not sure if this is an XP game, but this is the closest NG I could
find
: that anyone goes to.
:
: The Hearts game does not appear to deal the cards in a remotely random
: manner. Certain characteristics occur far too often, such as a 4,3,3,3
: distribution of the 13 spades, or the 2,3,4,5 of hearts each being with a
: different player. Although the computer players are hopeless players, and
I
: win more games than my three electronic opponents combined, it does get a
: little tiresome when you see the same thing happening so often. If the 3
and
: 4 of hearts are on the table and I'm next with the 5, you can almost count
: on it that the last player will play the 2. It's as though the programmer
: decided that card distribution should be more even than would occur with a
: properly shuffled real deck of cards, and rigged the deal to some extent,
or
: maybe it's just a lousy random generator being used. Anyway, if someone
: knows why the cards are dealt this way, I'd like to hear it.
:
: David
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