This website uses cookies to store your preferences, and for advertising purposes. Playing card images were made by Nicu Buculei, and the player images were madeĪny comments, questions, ideas for other games or anything else can be sent to to game I found at OpenClipArt, a great site with free graphics. The game is made using html+JavaScript+css with jQuery used for the animations. Play Hearts online, and just didn't think all the hundreds of other versions of Hearts would do! Of the card games I've made, Hearts is probably my favorite. I used to play Hearts a lot when I was younger, it was one of the games that came with every version of Windows. Hearts is the third card game I've made, the other two are Shithead and Crazy Eights. My name is Einar Egilsson and over there on the left is my current Facebook profile picture! This online version of the classic card game Hearts was made by me. Please do not write to me requesting that I change this again! So, it looks like most people want the Queen of Spades to not break hearts, so that's the way it'll be from now on. I used to get complaints that it didn't, then when I changed it to make sure she did break then I got even more complaints about that. Trying this can be a really risky move though, since if another player gets just one of the hearts you'll end up with a lot of points.Īs of I've changed the game so the Queen of Spades no longer breaks hearts. (13 hearts + Queen of spades) then you get 0 points and the other 3 players get 26 points each! This is called Shooting the Moon. Shooting the Moon! Generally it's bad to get penalty cards, but there is one extra twist! If you get ALL the penalty cards Two or more equal with the least points then play continues until there's only one winner. Reach 100 points or more then the entire game is finished, and the player with the least points win. Once all cards have been played the penalty points are counted and the player with the fewest points wins that hand. In the very first round you may never play a heart or the queen of spades, not even if you don't have any card in the suit of the lead card. Play the queen of spades until hearts has been broken as well, but in this version you can always play the queen of spades and
Heart has been played yet then you may not select a heart as the card to play first. You cannot lead a trick with hearts, until hearts has been broken (played on another suit). The player who has the two of clubs at the start of the game leads in the first hand, and he MUST lead with the two of clubs. So you want toĪvoid taking any tricks that have hearts or the queen of spades. Any penalty cards in the trick (hearts or queen of spades) are added to the players penalty score. he takes the four cards on the table and he then starts the The highest ranking card in the original suit takes the trick, i.e. Once four cards have been played, the player who played If they don't then they can play one of their other cards. If they have a card in the same suit as the first card then they must The other players then play one card each. The suit of that card determines the suit Next game you pass to the opponent on your right, third game you pass across the table and in the fourth game there is noĮach turn starts with one player playing a single card, also called leading. Which opponent you pass to varies, you start by passing to the opponent on your left, then in the Typically you want to pass your three worstĬards to get rid of them. When the game starts you select 3 cards to pass to one of your opponents. One special card, the Queen of spades, which gives 13 penalty points. The objective of Hearts is to get as few points as possible. There are many variations possible, but I use the basic ones from Wikipedia.