Hearts is a four-player point-based strategy card game. The object of the game is to be the player with the fewest points. Cards have the following point values: Hearts: 1 point, Queen of Spades: gives 13 points, Other cards: 0 points. This game uses the standard 52-card pack. Each player is dealt a hand of 13 cards from a 52 card deck. Hearts is a great family card game for kids to adults. It's a trick taking game involving 4 players, where the object of the game is have the lowest score when one person gets more than 100 points. The game starts by dealing 13 cards to each player. Hearts is a four-player point-based strategy card game. The object of the game is to be the player with the fewest points. Cards have the following point values: Hearts: 1 point, Queen of Spades: gives 13 points, Other cards: 0 points. This game uses the standard 52-card pack. Each player is dealt a hand of 13 cards from a 52 card deck. Hearts is a great family card game for kids to adults. It's a trick taking game involving 4 players, where the object of the game is have the lowest score when one person gets more than 100 points. The game starts by dealing 13 cards to each player. Each player passes cards, then plays in sequence, with the objective being to avoid all the hearts.
We're gonna harden our Hearts but we will not turn and leave you here to play by yourself! Using artificial intelligence there are always three other great Hearts players sitting at the card table with you! Hard Hearts provides a challenge that you will not find at other Hearts sites!
Online Hearts card game. You play against 3 AI opponents. Your game is automatically saved so you can return to the site at a later date and pick up where you left off, even in the middle of a hand and you don't have to create an account as this feature uses simple cookies.
Hard Hearts uses the same basic rules as other Hearts card game levels. The point of Hearts is to have the lowest score at the end of the game. How you manage your cards is elemental to what your score will be. Selecting your 3 cards to pass at the start of the Hearts round is at the 'Heart' of Hearts strategy. Passing 3 cards is your chance to upgrade your Hearts hand. Remove the cards that will create problems for you in the game such as the Queen of Spades. After the pass, players can only discard of cards by playing them so if you have a high risk card it is best strategically to pass it.
There are other advanced Hearts strategies to employ when playing Hard Hearts. One such Hearts strategy is referred to as bleeding out the spades . Players attempting to draw every spade out of the other players hands and remove them from Hearts play are 'bleeding' our the spades. Hearts players use this particular strategy when the have the Queen and do not have any other spades besides the Queen in their portion of the deck. Use passing strategies and strategies such as 'bleeding out spades' to win Hard Hearts!
- Shooting the Moon is a fun way to give your Hearts game an exciting turn!
- Shooting the Moon is when you get all the points in a hand.
- When you get all 26 points, your final tally will be 0!
- All the other players will get 26 points for the Hearts round! Awesome!
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Here are the rules for the card game Hearts:
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- The objective of Hearts is to get as few hearts as possible. Each heart gives you one penalty point. There is also a special card, which is the Queen of Spades. It gives you 13 penalty points! This is a game where you want a lower score rather than high.
- To begin, each player will be dealt 13 cards. You'll then select three cards when the game begins to pass to one of the opponents. Typically it's best to pass your three worst cards to try and get rid of them. The opponent which you pass to varies (we'll handle that part for you), you start by passing to the opponent on your left. Then, in the following game you pass to your opponent on the right. For the third game you pass straight across the table and in the 4th game you keep your cards and do not pass any.
- The player who has the 2 of clubs at the beginning leads in the first hand, and that player has to lead with the 2 of clubs.
- Each turn begins with one player laying a single card, which is called 'leading.' That card's suit determines the suit of the trick. Then each of the players each plays one card.
- If they have a card in the same suit as the first card then that suit must be played. If not, they can play any of their other cards. Once 4 cards have been played, the player who played the highest ranking card takes the trick. This means he or she takes the 4 cards on the table and starts the next turn. Any penalty cards (any hearts or queen of spades) the trick are added to the player's penalty score. Try to avoid these unless you are shooting the moon which we'll touch on later.
- You may not lead a trick with hearts until hearts has been played on another suit (aka 'broken'). If it is your turn to lead and no hearts have been played thus far, you cannot select a heart as the card to play. In some versions of game Hearts you cannot play the Queen of Spades until hearts has been broken, but in this variation you can always play the queen of spades and it doesn't break hearts.
- In the first round you may not play a heart or the queen of spades, even if you do not possess any card in the suit of the starting card.
- After all cards have been played, the penalty points are counted and the player with the smallest number of points wins that particular hand. When one of the players reaches at least 100 points then the game is finished, and the player with the least number of points is the winner. If points are over 100 and there are 2 or more equal with the fewest points then play will continue until there is only one clear winner.
- Back to 'shooting the moon.' Typically it is not good to get penalty cards, but there is a circumstance where it can hugely benefit you. If you get ALL the penalty cards (thirteen hearts and the Queen of Spades) then you get zero points and all other players get 26 points each. Trying this can be a somewhat risky move, since if another player gets just one of the hearts you will end up with lots of points. Alright, now that we've we've got that down let's play some Hearts!