HeartsMoon is a free site for hearts players. The name comes from shooting the moon: taking every heart and the queen of spades in one hand, the boldest play in the game. Here, as in Pagat’s rules, the player who shoots the moon chooses how it’s scored.
What’s here
- The game. Hearts in your browser, full screen, with no download and no account: against three computer players that wait for you, in a quick match with real people, or at a private table with friends by link. You can set the common house rules before you start.
- The rules. How to play hearts, with a scoring section, a page on shooting the moon, and the house rules tables play differently.
- For the card table. Printable rules with a cheat sheet, score sheets for three to six players, and a score keeper for your phone.
- More. Strategy, variations for two to ten players, the best places to play hearts, and the history of hearts.
How the rules are checked
Every rule on this site is checked against published rule sources, quoted from their own text: Pagat’s hearts pages, Bicycle’s rules, the US Playing Card Company’s Official Rules of Card Games (editions from 1898 to 1995), Foster’s Complete Hoyle (1914), John Hay’s rules, the Hoyle software rules, Microsoft’s help for the Windows game, and the rules of the big online games (World of Card Games, Trickster, CardGames.io, Whisthub, CardGames.club and Pogo’s old game). Where they disagree, the pages say so and say who plays what.
The rules our game plays
The standard four-player game: three cards passed left, right, across and then held; the two of clubs leads; no points on the first trick; only a heart breaks hearts; 1 point a heart and 13 for the queen of spades; the shooter of a moon chooses +26 to the others or −26 to themselves; the game ends at 100, and a tie for the lowest score plays on. The house rules page lists the defaults and the alternatives.
Who runs it
HeartsMoon is part of a small family of free card game sites, alongside SpadesBid, PinochleRun, euchre.cards, CribbageBox and Rare Pike. The online game runs on the same game server as Rare Pike’s.
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