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Hearts House Rules

Built-in variants for Hearts. Each is toggled per table; see the base rules for the standard game these build on.

  • 3, 4 or 5 Players: play three- or five-handed. Adjusts the deck so it deals evenly, and shortens or lengthens the passing rotation.
  • Frank’s Way: three- and five-handed only. Deal the full deck and set aside a hidden kitty instead of removing cards; the winner of the first trick takes it, and it is revealed at scoring.
  • Jack of Diamonds (-10): taking the jack of diamonds subtracts 10 points from your hand score, on top of normal heart/queen-of-spades scoring.
  • Play to 50 / 75 / 100 / 150: changes the score that ends the game.
  • Dealer’s Choice (casual): the dealer picks how many cards everyone passes, from 0 (no pass) to 5.
  • No Force Queen (casual): a bare queen of spades doesn’t have to be played to a spade lead.
  • No Safety (casual): hearts and the queen of spades may be played on the first trick.

Rules marked casual never change anyone’s rating.