Hearts or Spades for Android

11 things about Hearts or Spades

1. Once four cards have been played, the player who played the highest ranking card in the original suit takes the trick, i.e. he takes the four cards on the table and he then starts the next turn.

2. Shooting the Moon! Generally it's bad to get penalty cards, but there is one extra twist! If you get ALL the penalty cards (13 hearts + Queen of spades) then you get 0 points and the other 3 players get 26 points each! This is called Shooting the Moon.

3. In the very first round you may never play a heart or the queen of spades, not even if you don't have any card in the suit of the lead card.

4. In some variations of the game you can't play the queen of spades until hearts has been broken as well, but in this version you can always play the queen of spades and she doesn't break hearts.

5. So if it is your turn to lead and no heart has been played yet then you may not select a heart as the card to play first.

6. Once all cards have been played the penalty points are counted and the player with the fewest points wins that hand.

7. There is also one special card, the Queen of spades, which gives 13 penalty points.

8. You may play both famous card games now in one app Hearts OR Spades.

9. Any penalty cards in the trick (hearts or queen of spades) are added to the players penalty score.

10. Which opponent you pass to varies, you start by passing to the opponent on your left, then in the next game you pass to the opponent on your right, third game you pass across the table and in the fourth game there is no card passing.

11. If they have a card in the same suit as the first card then they must play that.