hoyle games

Hoyle's Rules of Games, Third Revised and Updated Edition
$6.99
Book ordered was received in fine condition, in a very short time. I would do business with this seller again.

Hoyle Casino 2008 [OLD VERSION]
$19.99
Excellent Casino Software.... Guides you when you make the wrong move.

Very good Black Jack guidance.

HOYLE Card Games (2010)
$19.99
I've had bad luck with Hoyle branded software in the past, but I was interested in a new card game to play on my PC and thought "They must have made it better" ... so I bought the 2010 Card Games. One of the worst card games I've ever seen. The card games on my Blackberry are better than these. Utterly worthless. In Texas Holdem there doesn't appear to be anyway to reraise. In Cribbage, the pegs are tiny. In Omaha Holdem, the player graphics cover up their cards so you can't see what their hands!!!

Hoyle Puzzle & Board Games 2008 [OLD VERSION]
$19.99
Reviewers of subsequent versions prefer THIS version to what came after, apparently things are going downhill. I am the owner of a 2005 version and see no difference whatsoever between this and the 2005. The only reason I got it is because this one does run in Vista 64-bit and the earlier one did not.

The games are exactly the same (which is not too bad); the options for spacemaker, facemaker, and point rewards are exactly the same; the instructions and help for the games is exactly the same (which means, some games have mediocre instructions/help and other games have none.)

Another difference is that, now that I have a much larger monitor with much higher resolution I am having difficulty finding a comfortable way to play: my options are either "full screen" which takes over the monitor, stretches the interface to the point of distortion, and results in a fuzzier (less sharp) interface OR "reduced" which, while sharp, is only to one pre-determined size which is too small. There is no way to pull the window to enlarge it to some sort of middle ground.

Oh, and this version also runs on Mac.