Hearts Mobile vs Rickety Kate

Play a captivating game of Hearts. To win you must avoid getting the scoring cards. Or you can Shoot the Moon. The game is over when one of the four players gains more or exactly 100 points. You win if you have the smallest score. Though chance is involved you can still make the best of your cards and win. FEATURES - Easy to use and play - Advanced AI players - 3 Difficulty Levels - Balanced rules - Designed for both Tablets and Phones TIPS - You can keep low and try to earn the lowest score by avoiding cards of hearts and especially by avoiding the 13-points Queen of Spades. - Another strategy is to go big and take all the hearts and the Queen of Spades, in which case you "Shoot the Moon". It will either take 26 points away or add 26 points to all your opponents. When at least one player goes over or reaches 100 points the game is over. - The scoring cards are the cards of hearts, each worth 1 point, and the Queen of Spades, worth 13 points. Whoever plays the highest card of the suit that started the trick collects the trick. The value of the cards grows in this order 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace. - 13 cards are dealt to each player. Before every hand, each player has to choose 3 cards and pass them to another player with one exception. For every fourth hand no cards are passed. The player holding the 2 of clubs must lead to begin the first trick. - Players must follow suit. If you don't have a card of the suit which started the trick you can place any card. - Players can start tricks with a card from any suit, with one exception: the cards of hearts. Placing a card of hearts in the trick for the first time is called breaking the hearts. Once the hearts are broken you can start a trick with a card of hearts. - Sometimes you can collect all the scoring cards and thus you shoot the moon. In most cases you will receive 0 points and the others will each receive 26 points. - However, if by adding 26 points to other players they gain more than 100 points, but you still lose, another solution is preferred. In this case 26 points will be subtracted from your score and all the other players will keep their scores. - By default the set difficulty is easy. But you can change it from the main menu. To enter the main menu and to also pause the game just press on the button in the top left corner of the screen. You can change it from easy to medium, from medium to hard or from hard to easy. And the next time when you play a new hand, the AI will employ better strategies or not depending on your preferred difficulty level. If you have any technical problems, please email us directly at support@gsoftteam.com. Please, don’t leave support problems in our comments – we don’t check those regularly and it will take longer to fix any issues that you might encounter. Thank you! Last but not least, a big THANK YOU goes out to everyone who has played Hearts Mobile!

Rickety Kate is a trick taking card game. This means every player tosses in a card and the player with the highest card in the same suite as the first card wins the trick and the cards. But wait! the person with the lowest running score wins. So winning a trick is not necessarily good. The Queen of Spades (Rickety Kate) is worth 10 points against you and the other spades are worth 1 point against you. When you run out of cards you are dealt another hand. If you obtain all the spades in a hand it is called 'Shooting the Moon' and your score drops to zero. At the beginning of each hand the player pass their three worst cards to their neighbour. Aces and King are the worst cards. The game has many options and settings Depending on the options the deck of cards can be anywhere from 30 cards in 3 suites to 184 cards in 10 suites The following options are available 1. Number Of Suites in Deck (3 - 8) 2. Number Of Cards in Suite (10-20) 3. Number Of Players At Table (3 - 7) (The empty seats will be filled with robot players) 4. Number Of Human Players At Table (1 - 7) (Multiple players can play in pass the phone / pad mode) 5. Include Jokers in Deck (Yes-No) 6. Include Tarot Trumps in Deck (Yes-No) 7. Use Pass Three Worst Cards Rule (Yes-No) 8. Game Finishing Score (50 - 500) 9. Speed of Card Animations (Slow - Fast) 10. What are the Scoring Cards (Spades, Hearts or Jacks) 11. Include Hooligan ( Seven of Clubs ) Worth 7 points (Yes - No) 12. Include Omnibus ( Jack of Diamonds ) Worth Negative 10 points (Yes - No) 13. Follow 'Can not lead with Scoring Card Suite Until Someone Plays a Scoring Card' Rule (Yes-No) 14. Play Music (Yes-No) 15. Music Volume (Low - High) 16. Play Sound (Yes-No) 17. Music Volume (Low - High) Other names for this game are Black Lady, The Dirty, Dark Lady, Slippery Anne, Chase the Lady, Crubs, Black Queen, Black Maria, Hearts, Spades, Four Jacks and Hooligan Hearts