Hearts Free online game

What is it?

Hearts is a card game for four players who each get 13 cards and try to take as few penalty cards as possible. On Hanpanmadang you play with three AI opponents, using the widely known standard rules.

Each hand you pass three cards left, right, then across (no passing on the fourth hand), and whoever holds the 2 of clubs leads. Each heart is 1 point and the queen of spades is 13. These are the same standard rules as the Hearts that came built into older computers; shooting the moon and how the game ends are explained in the example below.

How to play

1. Follow suit if you can. The highest card of the led suit takes the trick
2. Each heart is 1 point and the queen of spades is 13 — they're penalties. Take all 26 and everyone else gets 26!
3. The game ends when someone reaches 100. The lowest score wins

Difficulty and rankings

There's a weekly ranking and an all-time ranking; the weekly one resets every Monday at midnight (Korea time). For details, see the Help.

Good to know on Hanpanmadang

• The first trick starts with the 2 of clubs, and no hearts or queen of spades may be played on it (unless that's all you have).
• You can't lead hearts until someone has discarded one and "broken" hearts (unless you have only hearts left).
• AI difficulty: Easy AI often plays random cards, Normal makes occasional mistakes, and Hard calculates every play without errors.

Learn from examples

Common mistakes

Holding on to the queen of spades when you're short in spades.

After a few rounds of spades, you may be left with only the queen and forced to play it, and whoever played the highest spade takes it — sometimes that's you. If you're short in spades, pass the queen.

Letting an opponent go for the moon unchallenged.

If one player keeps taking tricks and collecting hearts, take even a single heart yourself. That alone stops the moon shot.

Tips

• When passing, try to empty out a whole suit. Then every time that suit is led, you can discard penalty cards like hearts.
• Holding the queen of spades is risky when you have few spades. With plenty of spades, it's fine to keep it.
• Save your low cards for the end. They're your way to get out without taking tricks.
• Remember which cards have been played. Knowing whether a suit's high cards are gone tells you whether your card will win the trick.