Hearts - Multiplayer card game

Introduction

Hearts is the ultimate free Hearts card game for smartphones and tablets, available on both Android and iOS platforms. The game has been developed by a passionate team over the years, with a continuous focus on improving the user experience, adding new features, and fixing any bugs. It's a fast, steady, and fun game to play.

Here are some of the outstanding features of Hearts:
* Enjoy playing Hearts with your friends and other players around the world in real-time with the live online multiplayer.
* The game's realistic interface gives you the same feeling as sitting at a real card table.
* Choose between easy and hard gameplay modes. In hard mode, you can challenge yourself against the smart AI and see if you can beat the computer buddy.
* Hearts has a diverse range of achievements, some of which are easy, and others that are harder to get. Can you manage to get them all?
* Compete with challenging computer opponents.
* You can effortlessly personalise your gaming experience by adding your name and a custom DP to reflect your character.
* It's unlimited and 100% free!

Gameplay:
Players and Cards:
Hearts is mainly played by four people. There are no specified partnerships, but there may be situations when players find it in their interest to help each other.

The game uses a standard 52 card deck, with the cards in each suit ranked as usual from the ace (high) down to the two (low). There is no trump suit.

Each heart is worth one penalty point, and the queen of spades is worth 13 penalty points. Other cards have no value.

Object of the Game:
The main objective of the game is to avoid scoring points. The player with the lowest score when someone reaches or exceeds 100 points wins the game.

Deal and Passing:
The game operates in a clockwise direction. All the cards are dealt out one after the other, so that each player has 13.

On the first hand, after the deal, each player passes three cards face-down to the player on their left. When passing cards, players must first select the cards to be passed and put them face-down, ready to be picked up by the receiving player. Only when they have done this may they then pick up the cards passed to them, look at them, and add them to their hand.

On the second hand, each player then passes three cards to the player on their right, using the same method. On the third hand, players pass three cards to the player sitting opposite. On the fourth hand, no cards are passed at all. The cycle then starts again and repeats until the end of the game.

The Play of the Hand:
The player holding the 2 of clubs must lead it to the first trick. Other players, in a clockwise order, must play a card of the same suit as the one led, if possible. If they do not have a card of that suit, they may play any card. The player with the highest card of the suit led wins the trick and leads to the next trick.

It is illegal to lead a heart until after a heart has been played to a previous trick, unless your hand contains nothing but hearts. Discarding a heart, thus allowing hearts to be led in the future, is called breaking hearts. In general, discarding a penalty card on a trick is called painting the trick.

A player whose hand consists only of hearts may lead any heart, thereby breaking hearts, even if hearts have not been broken previously.

Players are permitted to lead spades to any trick after the first. In fact, it is often a preferred tactic to lead lower spades to try to drive out the queen. This is called smoking out the queen.

Scoring:
Typically, each player scores penalty points for cards in the tricks which they won. Each heart scores one point, and the queen of spades scores 13 points. However, if you manage to win all the scoring cards (known as a slam or shooting the moon), your score is reduced by 26 points, or you may choose to have all other players' scores increased by 26 points.

The game continues until one player has reached or exceeded 100 points at the end of a hand. The player with the lowest score wins.

Other games developed by the same team include Callbreak and Spades, with more games coming soon.

Start playing Hearts now and join the community of happy players, enjoying this top-ranked free Hearts card game with live online multiplayer, achievements, customizable game options, statistics, smart AI opponents, and frequent updates.

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