Hearts Zone: Card Game

Hearts done properly: three AI opponents at three difficulties, or a private table you share with a link. Free, plays offline, no account, nothing to buy.

Hearts, the card game you already know, done properly. Take as few points as you can: every heart is worth one, the queen of spades is worth thirteen, and the player who finishes with the lowest score wins.

PLAY ON YOUR OWN Three computer opponents — Hedgehog, Owl and Hare — across three levels of difficulty. Easy will let a mistake slide. Hard follows the cards, remembers what has already been played and goes hunting for the queen of spades. No connection needed: the whole game runs on your phone, and it is saved as you play, so closing the app or running out of battery never costs you a game.

PLAY WITH FRIENDS Open a table and share the code or the invite link. Whoever taps it lands straight at your table. Not four of you? Fill the empty seats with AI and play anyway. If someone drops out their seat is held for them, and reconnecting puts them back in the same hand.

THE REAL RULES, NOTHING INVENTED Three cards passed left, right, across, then a hand where you keep them. The two of clubs opens. Follow suit when you can. Nobody leads a heart until hearts are broken, and the first trick takes no hearts and no queen of spades. Take all twenty-six points and you shoot the moon — everybody else takes them instead. The game ends when a player reaches 100.

Never played before? A short guide to the rules is built in.

FREE, AND STRAIGHT ABOUT HOW No account. No sign-up. Nothing to buy. The game pays for itself with one full-screen ad at the end of each hand — never in the middle of one.

Before anything about you is used to make those ads personal you are asked, and you can change that answer whenever you like from the menu. An online table is deleted the moment the last player leaves, and nothing about a finished game is kept.

Available in English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Indonesian, Thai, Japanese and Chinese.