Hearts Hollow

Hearts Hollow is the card game Hearts for one player against three opponents that run entirely on your phone. No ads, no network, no account, and nothing to buy: every part of the app is open from the first launch. THE RULES, IN FULL A standard 52-card deck with no jokers, thirteen cards each, four players, and thirteen tricks to a deal. Every heart costs 1 point and the queen of spades costs 13, so exactly 26 points leave the table every deal. The game runs until somebody reaches the target, and the LOWEST score wins. PASS THREE, THEN PLAY THIRTEEN Before most deals every player hands three cards to a neighbour: left, then right, then across, then a deal with no pass at all. The two of clubs leads the first trick, and no hearts and no queen of spades may be thrown into it. THE RULES ARE ENFORCED, NOT SUGGESTED Holding the suit that was led means you must play it, and you cannot lead a heart until hearts are broken. A card you may not play is dimmed and does not answer a tap at all, so an illegal move is impossible rather than merely discouraged. SHOOTING THE MOON Take every heart and the queen of spades in one deal and the other three take 26 points instead of you - or 26 comes off your own score, if you set it that way. Both variants are in Settings, along with the jack of diamonds rule and whether cards are passed at all. A game keeps the rules it started with. THREE OPPONENTS, ALL OPEN Easy plays a random legal card and throws the queen of spades the moment it can. Normal remembers what has gone out, keeps low cards for a safe exit and stays under a trick with points in it. Hard counts what is left of every suit, passes for a void, spots a run at the moon and takes a trick with a heart to stop it. None of them ever looks at anybody's hand: each sees the trick on the table, every card already played and how many cards the others hold, nothing else. A TABLE YOU CAN READ Four seats in a cross, the trick in the middle with every card standing at the seat that played it, and the leading card marked. Big indices, a light card face and a dark table. Your thirteen cards lie in rows, never narrower than a finger, and the ones you may play get a green edge. YOUR GAME IS SAVED Leave in the middle of a trick and come back to the same four hands, the same trick on the table, the same score and the same unfinished pass. STATISTICS Games and deals by opponent level, win rate, points per deal, how often you took the queen of spades, moons shot, missed and stopped, your second places, your lowest game total and your longest streak. The suit-by-suit breakdown of every trick you have taken is part of it from the first launch. HINTS AND UNDO, WITH NO CAP A hint names the move and says why, and an undo takes a move back. Both cost coins and neither is capped: take as many as you have coins for. COINS ARE EARNED BY PLAYING Coins come from deals you finish with no penalty points, moons you shoot or stop, games you win or come second in, and your first launch of the day. They pay for hints, undos and the extra card backs, table backgrounds and the set of opponent portraits. They cannot be bought: the app sells nothing and takes no payments. NOT A GAMBLING GAME There are no bets, no chips and no prizes. Coins cannot be won by wagering, cannot be transferred to another player and cannot be exchanged for anything outside the app. OFFLINE AND PRIVATE The app has no network code at all. Nothing is collected, nothing is sent anywhere, no advertising identifier is read, and it asks for no permissions: no camera, no microphone, no location, no contacts, no notifications.

First release.