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I would say that’s probably a feature, not a bug. If you can program out a tie in a way that doesn’t really affect gameplay, why not?

There have been claims that it cheats during play too, but never any proof, and the app developers at one point asserted that that is not the case.

The makers of the Dominion app deal with this too. Some players have a hard time understanding that if the hardest bot can track what cards are in every draw & discard pile, and from there can make informed decisions based on probability, to a casual observer it is indistinguishable from cheating.

Yep. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. In the case of Grandpas, it would be pretty easy to record 100 or so hands of the hardest setting and see how far they fall out of the expected distribution, but I haven’t seen anyone produce that evidence.