Another of the Microsoft card games, and the first one with multiplayer support. Still, it didn't quite gain the popularity of its sister games.
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Debug Mode#
This game has a debug mode, but it's a bit harder to enable here because it requires editing the Windows registry.
Open a registry editor and go to key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Hearts (create any sub-keys that don't exist). Add a REG_SZ named ZB and set its value to 42 (in Windows for Workgroups 3.11, add "ZB=42" to the [Hearts] section of win.ini).
After having done this, start the game and you'll be able to use the keyboard combination Ctrl + Shift + Alt + F12 to see the cards of your competitors. This was probably used to test the game engine and possibly also the AI.
Version Differences#
The Windows XP version changes the icon (although the old icon remains as a low color depth fallback) and removes networking support.
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Regional Differences#
Opponent Names#
The CPU opponents have different names in each language.
Language |
Opponent (West) |
Opponent (North) |
Opponent (East) |
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English, Indonesian, Luxembourgish, |
Pauline |
Michele |
Ben |
Afrikaans |
Elmien |
Ania |
Jan |
Albanian |
Arta |
Rina |
Iliri |
Arabic |
هناء |
سمير |
أشرف |
Armenian |
Հասմիկ |
Արմեն |
Տիգրան |
Azerbaijani |
Murad |
Nicat |
Xəyyam |
Basque |
Leire |
Iker |
Nekane |
Bengali |
সুবর্ণা |
সৌরভ |
কৌশিক |
Bosnian |
Cyrillic: Азра |
Cyrillic: Наташа |
Cyrillic: Емир |
Bulgarian |
Полин |
Мишел |
Бен |
Catalan |
Paula |
Martina |
Benet |
Croatian |
Jelena |
Mihaela |
Hrvoje |
Czech |
Pavel |
Martina |
Jitka |
Danish |
Anni |
Charlotte |
Claus |
Dutch |
Johan |
Annelies |
Wouter |
Estonian |
Paula |
Mihkel |
Kalle |
Finnish (pre-XP) |
Anne |
Keijo |
Juuso |
Finnish (XP) |
Pauliina |
Riku |
Hannes |
French (pre-XP) |
Jean-Pierre |
Bruno |
Michel |
French (XP) |
Aude |
Michel |
Marc |
Galician |
Paula |
María |
Manuel |
Georgian |
ეკა |
დიტო |
ლაშა |
German |
Jutta |
Michael |
Matthias |
Greek |
Έλενα |
Μαρίζα |
Αλέξανδρος |
Gujarati |
પ્રીતિ |
માધુરી |
સ્વાતિ |
Hebrew |
שרון |
ליאת |
אורי |
Hindi |
जितेन्द्र |
सौरभ |
प्रमोद |
Hungarian (pre-XP) |
Levente |
Miki |
Viktor |
Hungarian (XP) |
Botond |
Dorka |
Viktor |
Icelandic |
Pálína |
Mikaela |
Bensi |
Inuktitut |
Jeela |
Leena |
Gavin |
Irish |
Póilín |
Máire |
Seán |
Italian |
Giovanna |
Davide |
Roberto |
Japanese |
かおる |
かなこ |
ひさこ |
Kannada |
ಕುಮಾರ್ |
ಮೈಕಲ್ |
ಸಂಜಯ್ |
Kazakh |
Сараң бай |
Қожанасыр |
Алдар Көсе |
Konkani |
प्रसाद |
नितीन |
गणाधिश |
Korean (pre-XP) |
진수 |
영미 |
정훈 |
Korean (XP) |
유미 |
해정 |
영주 |
Latvian |
Linda |
Alise |
Edgars |
Lithuanian |
Džiuginta |
Raimonda |
Liutauras |
Macedonian |
Павлина |
Михаил |
Горан |
Malay |
Sheila |
Fatimah |
Abdullah |
Malayalam |
പോളിന് |
മൈക്കിള് |
ബെന് |
Maori |
Pāorīni |
Mīhera |
Pēne |
Mapudungun |
Manuel |
Ana |
Kesu |
Marathi |
रत्नाकर |
अभिजीत |
कार्तिकी |
Nepali |
पूजा |
गीता |
नारायण |
Norwegian |
Kim |
Einar |
Signe |
Pashto |
خوشحال |
ایمل |
بین |
Persian |
فریبا |
مریم |
امیر |
Polish |
Bartek |
Michał |
Marcin |
Portuguese (Brazil) |
Túlia |
Giselle |
Laura |
Portuguese (Portugal) |
Paula |
Maria |
Manuel |
Punjabi |
ਪਉਲਾਈਨ |
ਮਾਈਕਲ |
ਬੈਨ |
Romanian |
Paula |
Mihaela |
Bogdan |
Russian (pre-XP) |
Анна |
Лиза |
Катя |
Russian (XP) |
Трус |
Балбес |
Бывалый |
Serbian |
Cyrillic: Александар |
Cyrillic: Силвана |
Cyrillic: Драган |
Slovak (pre-XP) |
Ivana |
Zuzana |
Ľubana |
Slovak (XP) |
Ivana |
Zuzana |
Jozef |
Slovenian |
Miha |
Miša |
Jaka |
Spanish |
Manuel |
Ana |
Jesús |
Swedish |
Jesper |
Joséphine |
Mika |
Tamil |
குமார் |
ராஜா |
சுந்தர் |
Tatar |
Хәмзин |
Шәрәфи |
Шамкай |
Telugu |
తరుణ్ |
వరుణ్ |
ప్రభాస్ |
Traditional Chinese |
白素貞 |
聶小倩 |
祝英台 |
Turkish |
Can |
Mehmet |
Gamze |
Ukrainian |
Оксана |
Галина |
Тарас |
Urdu |
کامران |
سارہ |
جمال |
Vietnamese |
Trang |
Phương |
Huy |
Welsh |
Elin |
Bethan |
Rhys |
Quote#
The quote in the Help menu is different in some languages.
Language |
Quote |
Translation |
Explanation |
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English |
I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts... |
Quote from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Later translated and reused in the Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Kannada, Konkani, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Mapudungun, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tswana, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese and Zulu versions of the game. Estonian has (as in: hearts) added, due to the title being untranslated. Afrikaans and Thai only translate the source. Bengali and Malay leave it untranslated. |
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Finnish |
Kortit parhaat riviin pöydälleen saada tahtoo meistä jokainen... |
The cards are best lined up on their table to get the wants of each of us... |
Quote from "Pataässä", a song by Heikki Salo. |
French |
À vaincre sans péril, on triomphe sans gloire... |
To vanquish without peril, one triumphs without glory... |
Quote from Le Cid, a play by Pierre Corneille. |
Hungarian |
Óvakodj a Fekete Macskától !
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Beware of the Black Cat !
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Possibly a reference to black cats being considered bad luck. |
Irish |
An rud a líonas an tsúil líonann sé an croí... |
What fills the eye fills the heart... |
An Irish proverb. |
Italian |
Al cuor non si comanda. |
You can't command the heart. |
Italian proverb equivalent to "love is blind". |
Kazakh |
Үскірген боран. Ойыншы кеше карта ойнаған үйге келіп, терезе қағады: "Сен қызылашаның валетін жүрмегенде, біз ұтылмас едік!" |
A blizzard. The player came to the house where he played cards yesterday and knocked on the window: "If you hadn't played the Jack of Hearts, we wouldn't have lost!" |
Quote from some Kazakh or Central Asian folk tale. |
Russian |
Червы особенно часто приходили к Якову Ивановичу, а у Евпраксии Васильевны руки постоянно полны бывали пик. |
The hearts came especially often to Yakov Ivanovich, and Evpraksia Vasilievna's hands were constantly full of spades. |
Quote from "Большой шлем", a short story by Leonid Andreyev. |
Swedish |
Finns det HJÄRTERrum så finns det stjärterum... |
If there's room in the HEARTS, there is room for the butt... |
A play on a Swedish proverb which, if interpreted literally, is about making room for someone you care about. Figuratively, it can be used to describe being willing to sacrifice something to help someone overcome an obstacle. The closest English counterpart is likely "Where there's a will, there's a way". Since this is a common proverb, as opposed to a famous quote, the line is instead attributed to some random tram passenger from the Swedish city of Gothenburg who is presumably scooching over to make room for someone else to sit. |
Tatar |
Черви барысыннан да күбрәк Гали Галиечка килә иде, Ә Бибинәгыймә кулында һаман карга була иде..... |
Hearts came to Gali Galich most of all, and Grandma still had a crow in her hand..... |
Unknown Tatar or Central Asian source. |
Ukrainian |
Голяк масті - чирва світить! |
The naked suit - the red shines! |
From Ivan Karpenko-Karyy's play "Сто тисяч" (Hundred Thousand). |
Welsh |
Paid digalonni....! |
Don't get discouraged....! |
From David Huw Jones' song "Paid Digalonni" (Don't Get Discouraged). |
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Introduced in Windows 1.0 |
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Introduced in Windows 3.x |
Hearts (1993) (Prototypes) • Minesweeper (1990) (Prototypes) • Solitaire (1990) (Prototypes) |
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Introduced in Windows 95 |
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Introduced in Windows 2000 |
3D Pinball: Space Cadet (Prototypes) • Spider Solitaire (1998) (Prototype) |
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Introduced in Windows XP |
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Introduced in Windows Vista |
Chess Titans (Prototypes) • FreeCell (2007) • Hearts (2007) • Mahjong Titans (Prototypes) • Minesweeper (2007) (Prototypes) • Purble Place (Prototypes) • Solitaire (2007) • Spider Solitaire (2007) |
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Introduced in Windows 8 Developer Preview |
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Introduced in Windows 10 |
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