Playcard gamesHearts
Avoid every heart and the queen of spades. Or take them all.
- 3-6 players
- Standard deck
- Trick-taking
What Hearts is
An avoidance game. Every trick you win is a liability, and the aim is to finish with as few penalty cards as possible — unless you decide to take all of them.
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Open a table here and play Hearts in the browser — 3 to 6 at it, with friends on a shared code, or against bots when you are short of people.
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