Hearts classic game

HEARTS

Main characteristics:

- Play Hearts against three CPU

- Four-color deck (each suit has a different color)

- Three leves: Beginner, intermediate and advanced

- It includes help and play explanation

- Settings: Cards size, deck type (four-color or classic), cards back color, sound, animations, speed, scoreboard, table color, see names on the table cards,...

- Scores: Hands, matches, best and worst,...

- Achievements: They allow to achieve experiencie points

- Save and load game

- Landscape and vertical orientation

- Move to SD

Play:

- Hearts game is ended by someone reaching or going over 100 points (by default), and the winner is the player with the lowest score at this point

- A match has several hands where all the cards are dealt out one at a time, so that everyone has 13. The person who played the highest card of the suit led wins the trick and leads to the next trick

Scoring Hearts:

- Players’ points are added to their scoreboards at the finish of each hand

- Each heart scores one point, and the queen of spades scores 13 points

The rules settings allow changing some of this rules:

- Game points: 50 or 100 points

- The first trick is lead by the player holding the 2 of clubs (by default) or not (in this case the first hand leading player is selected aleatory)

- It’s possible to allow to play penalty points (hearts and the queen of spades) at first trcik or not

- Queen of spades breaks hearts or not

- It’s illegal or not to play queen of spades as lead card if hearts aren’t break

- Shooting the moon increases all player’ scores by 26 points or player score is reduced by 26 points

- Allow card passing or not

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