♥️ Hearts

🎯 The idea

Four players, thirteen tricks. Every heart is one point and the Queen of Spades is thirteen — and points are bad. The player with the fewest points when someone reaches the target wins.

👆 Playing a card

Tap a card in your hand. If you have a card of the suit that was led you must play one — the cards you cannot play go grey.
Highest card of the suit that was led takes the trick, and whoever takes it leads the next one.

💔 Breaking hearts

Nobody may lead a heart until a heart has already been played on some other suit — that is "breaking" them. Nothing that scores can be thrown away on the very first trick either.

🌙 Shooting the moon

Take every single point in a hand and it flips: you score nothing and everyone else takes the lot. It is rare and it is worth watching for — the player hoovering up hearts may be winning.

🙂 Levels

🌱 Sprout: a short pack (7 up), no passing, first to 50.
🧭 Scout: the whole deck, pass three each hand.
🏆 Ace: the same, against sharper opponents.
A level sets the switches in ⚙️ Settings; change any and you are playing your own mix.

🤖 Auto

Tap 🤖 Auto at the top and the game plays your hand too — the pass, every card, and on into the next hand — at the same pace as everyone else. Handy when you need to put the phone down. Tap it again to take over; the game finishes the card it is on and then waits for you.

It plays for keeps. Points it takes are on your score, and a match can be lost while you are not looking. It plays like an opponent at your level and sees only what you see. The button stays lit the whole time, so it is never a mystery who is playing.

📜 The rules

🖨️ A card for the table

Print the rules on one sheet, fold it into a card and keep it in the deck box. One side, no scissors. Open the printable rules card

🔎 What everything means