Three new games at once, and they're all about winning tricks: Hearts, Spades and Euchre.
In each one you play with 3 AI players: Ava, Ben and Cleo.
Hearts
The game where you try not to win. Every heart you take costs a point, and the Queen of Spades costs thirteen.
- Pass three cards before each hand: left, right, across, then keep.
- The 2 of clubs leads the first trick, and no points can be played on it.
- Hearts can't be led until one has been played.
- Take every heart and the Queen in one hand and you shoot the moon: everyone else gets 26 instead.
- Play to 100 points, or 50 for a shorter game. Lowest score wins.
Spades
A partnership game. You and the player across from you are a team, and spades are always trump.
- Look at your hand and bid how many tricks you'll take. Your bid and your partner's make your contract.
- Make it and you score ten a trick. Fall short and you lose the lot.
- Tricks over your bid are bags. Collect ten and it costs you 100 points, so don't overshoot.
- Feeling brave? Bid Nil and try to take no tricks at all, for 100 points.
- Play to 500, or 250 for a quicker game.
Euchre
Fast and loud, with just 24 cards and five cards each. You and your partner need three tricks out of five.
- A card is turned up. Order it up to make its suit trump, or pass and see if anyone else will.
- The Jack of trump is the highest card, and the other Jack of the same colour comes next.
- Strong hand? Go alone and leave your partner out. Take all five tricks on your own for four points.
- Take fewer than three tricks after calling trump and you're euchred: the other team scores two.
- First team to 10 wins. Turn on stick the dealer if you'd rather the dealer has to name trump than redeal.
Made to be easy to pick up
- Tap a card to play it. Cards you can't play are dimmed, so you never break the rules by accident.
- The AI players keep a steady pace. Each trick stays on the table for a moment so you can see who won it.
- The score is always one tap away. Open the score sheet any time to see every hand so far.
- Leave whenever you like. Your match is kept in your browser, so it's waiting when you come back.
- Light and quick. The pages are small and load fast, even on a slow phone connection, and they work just as well on a phone as on a laptop.
Each game has a full rules page and a strategy guide, if you want to sharpen up before your first hand. Good luck at the table.