Others say...

"Disappointed"
Ballooning cards moving up, down and sideways is distracting and hard to chase down to select. Download time is OK. A 30 minute update is ridiculous. Selected the only 4 music options, that got marked sold, but never showed up. The running commentary on who is selecting a card etc. is useless. At hands end, maybe show the remaining cards in the losers hands, face up, so you coulld see what they had left, to maybe form a strategy of sorts. The speed choice is unsat. It is either very slow or supersonic. All in all I think I would have enjoyed a head cold more than coping with this headache. VR/jebco35

"Not Really Satisfied"
I purchased Hoyle Card Games 2009 even though I had Hoyle Card Games 2008. After installation, the new 2009 did not execute properly. It was jerky and its movements were slow. After a week, I uninstalled 2009 and reinstalled 2008 and I have been satisfied with all card games ever since. This copy of 2009 appears to be defective.
William M Pate Jr
12 Dec 2008

"Change in Card Size"
My name is Kim Henderson and I am the product manager for Hoyle / Encore.

I want to take a moment to let everyone know that we heard your requests for larger cards and we have made them bigger. As of 11-25-08 there is a patch available to update the card size. Now all the cards are much larger and easier to see. In addition, as the cursor moves over the cards they are magnified even more making it easier to see single cards.

Please make sure to run your update 1.5 on the game to see the results of the magnification of the cards.

You are also welcome to visit [...] and post your comments or requests for changes in our forums.

Thank you for your purchase of Hoyle Cards 2009.

"WARNING-DO NOT BUY!!!"
I owned & enjoyed Hoyle Card Games 2005 for Windows XP, so when I recently purchased a new laptop with Windows Vista, I bought this version since I was told my old version of Hoyle 2005 would not work. When I tried to install, the disc did not work and ended up corrupting the entire hard drive on my brand new laptop!! After calling customer support for my laptop, (which, by the way, they were extremely helpful) I spent over 3 hours restoring the hard drive. I will definitely be returning this and will not attempt another one.

"Horrible!"
I had 2008 and thought 2009 would be better. WRONG! I play rummy alot and you could double click a card to make it move to the discard pile in 2008. You can't in this version. You have to manually drag it to the pile. Also in some of the solitare games that I could go through the deck more than once in 2008 you can't in 2009. I thought Encore would do better than this. Also had problems with load and updates too. Had to disable UAC in Vista to get it to work. If you have 2008 stay with it. If you are buying for first time buy 2008 not 2009.