Description

Play the classic card game Hearts where the goal is to avoidtaking hearts and the queen of spades. With quick play against 3players. hearts can provide hours of entertainment.
•normal and omnibus rules
•easy intuitive touch interface
•smooth animations

Hearts Rules:

These are the rules I use for Hearts. There are many variationspossible,

The objective of Hearts is to get as few hearts as possible.Each heart gives one penalty point. There is also one special card,the Queen of spades, which gives 13 penalty points.
When the game starts you select 3 cards to pass to one of youropponents. Typically you want to pass your three worst cards to getrid of them. Which opponent you pass to varies, you start bypassing to the opponent on your left, then in the next game youpass to the opponent on your right, third game you pass across thetable and in the fourth game there is no card passing.
Each turn starts with one player playing a single card, also calledleading. The suit of that card determines the suit of the trick.The other players then play one card each. If they have a card inthe same suit as the first card then they must play that. If theydon't then they can play one of their other cards. Once four cardshave been played, the player who played the highest ranking card inthe original suit takes the trick, i.e. he takes the four cards onthe table and he then starts the next turn. Any penalty cards inthe trick (hearts or queen of spades) are added to the playerspenalty score. So you want to avoid taking any tricks that havehearts or the queen of spades.
The player who has the two of clubs at the start of the game leadsin the first hand, and he MUST lead with the two of clubs.
You cannot lead a trick with hearts, until hearts has been broken(played on another suit). So if it is your turn to lead and noheart has been played yet then you may not select a heart as thecard to play first. In some variations of the game you can't playthe queen of spades until hearts has been broken as well, but inthis version you can always play the queen of spades and shedoesn't break hearts.
In the very first round you may never play a heart or the queen ofspades, not even if you don't have any card in the suit of the leadcard.
Once all cards have been played the penalty points are counted andthe player with the fewest points wins that hand. When one or moreplayers reach 100 points or more then the entire game is finished,and the player with the least points win. If points are over 100and there are two or more equal with the least points then playcontinues until there's only one winner.
Shooting the Moon! Generally it's bad to get penalty cards, butthere is one extra twist! If you get ALL the penalty cards (13hearts + Queen of spades) then you get 0 points and the other 3players get 26 points each! This is called Shooting the Moon.Trying this can be a really risky move though, since if anotherplayer gets just one of the hearts you'll end up with a lot ofpoints...